The Other McCain

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Anonymous Spokesman Barrett Brown Is Sane Enough to Stand Trial, Judge Rules

September 2012: Barrett Brown threatens an FBI agent in video Breaking ; Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown just ruled competent to stand trial on federal charges against him — Lee Stranahan (@Stranahan) January 30, 2013 Breaking : Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown pleads not guilty to two recently filed obstruction charges against him in Dallas federal court […]

New Federal Charges Filed Against Anonymous Spokesman Barrett Brown

September 2012: Barrett Brown threatens an FBI agent in video For the third time in four months, a federal grand jury in Texas has returned indictments against Barrett Brown, the former spokesman for the hacking group Anonymous. Brown was arrested in September after a video rant in which he threatened to “destroy” an FBI agent. […]

Convicted Felon John Tiessen: Crazy? Certainly, But Is He Also Dangerous?

John Tiessen, ranting on YouTube about Nixon and Jesus and the Rothschilds Where do all these crazy people on the Internet come from, and why do they always seem to end up obsessively stalking me? Maybe I should write a book, Troll Magnet: How to Become an Irresistible Scapegoat for Every Deranged Lunatic With a […]

Further Tales of ‘Heroic Hatred’: Down the Rabbit Hole With Neal Rauhauser

Neal Rauhauser was a speaker at the 2010 Netroots Nation conference “I’ve been all over Patterico for the last several weeks, as he looks to be a pretty good candidate for the planner/operator behind Weinergate . . .” — Neal Rauhauser (“Stranded Wind”), Daily Kos, “Weinergate Perps Pay Dearly,”July 27, 2011 Patterico comments on the […]

New Charges Filed Against Former ‘Anonymous’ Spokesman Barrett Brown

Barrett Brown, whose online meltdown led to his September arrest for threatening an FBI agent, has been indicted for last year’s Stratfor hacking. UPDATE: Brown acted as an unofficial spokesman for the Anonymous hacking conspiracy for more than a year and was raided (but not arrested) in March at the time the feds busted the […]

UPDATE: Walker v. Kimberlin, Et Al. (Also: Why ‘Doxing’ Is Always Illegal)

John Hoge’s latest news in the Virginia case of Aaron Walker v. Brett Kimberlin, et al., is that Walker’s attorney Dan Backer has filed motions for default judgments against Kimberlin’s co-defendants Ron Bryanert and Neal Rauhauser. Backer is requesting that the court in Prince William County schedule the hearing on this motion for Dec. 4, […]

‘Another Person Known to the Grand Jury’ in the Barrett Brown Indictment?

Barrett Brown calmly explains why he’s going to ‘destroy’ an FBI agent On Sept. 12, former Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown was arrested in Texas after he posted a bizarre YouTube video rant in which he threatened to “destroy” an FBI Special Agent. In March, Brown had been raided, but not arrested, by the FBI at the […]

Neal Rauhauser as Carlito2000:
How Barrett Brown Went Down

My planned campaign road trip has unfortunately been delayed, which gives me a chance to follow up on some recent activity by Neal Rauhauser, who became rather enraged when I pointed out that it was Neal who “drove Barrett Brown off the deep end.” Rauhauser knows that this is true — the Sept. 12 video […]

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