LA prosecutor Patrick Frey asked Anonymous for help

February 16th, 2011

Me = Barrett Brown
Patrick = Patrick Frey, LA county prosecutor and conservative blogger Patterico

In this chat, Frey accepts offer by alleged criminal mastermind Barrett Brown to have Anonymous operatives reduce the visibility of a blog post by Jeff Goldstein, a "classical liberal" blogger, academic, and Frey foe who runs ProteinWisdom.com. Brown agrees to look into the matter. Further conversations may be released as appropriate. As noted, this leak is being conducted in retaliation for Frey's failure to readily answer questions about a possible connection between Confederate/white nationalist Washington Times editor Robert Stacy McCain and the HBGary criminal organization as well as Frey's decision to publicly attack an RNC protester who was arrested in possession of a weapon, with the final straw being R.S. McCain's latest attack on Brown, whom the author and conservative stalwart denounced in public as deserving of FBI attention in 2011 - before later claiming instead that Brown is in fact an FBI informant based on his own misunderstanding of facts known even to many reporters who have covered Anonymous in the last few years. Frey is also the target of legal action due to another incident involving a different activist who is being represented by Jay Leiderman, the "Anonymous lawyer" who has secured pro-bono legal defense for more than a dozen other citizens who have been raided or charged by the feds since late 2010. Journalists interested in further details, as well as the bizarre connection between this and the "SWAT" story from earlier this year, may as always contact Barrett Brown at barriticus@gmail.com

Don't wait. Retaliate.


-Barrett Brown
 Project PM

Patrick: Google Patrick Frey
  One of his bullshit posts is on the first page
12:41 AM me: I'm assuming it's transparent BS, though, of the sort that anyone who matters can see through?
  I'll look though
  meanwhile I'm getting off opiates
  decided to make my old heroin addiction public
  to avoid it being revealed by someone else
12:42 AM Patrick: No, it's a link to another post that would take hours to debunk even though it's utter bullshit
 me: oic
  Well
  That can be changed
  by one of several methods
12:43 AM Patrick: Oh?
 me: yep
  I'll have to think a bit about details
  you need to remember
  and this is something I don't say publicly
  NYT just refers to me as "Barrett Brown," for instance
  others as "informal spokesman"
12:44 AM Anonymous has no leaders
  or titles
  but certain people have more influence than others
  now, should note, I'm not talking about anything illegal
  I don't commit crimes
12:45 AM off the top of my head, though
  hmmm
  let me Google goldstein real quick
  hmm
12:46 AM Goldstein has top three results as positive references, plus one referring to someone else with same name
  then Sadly No piece
  which you really should read, by the way
  it can be changed such that top result is an article by mee
 Patrick: Oh, I have read it
 me: on Encyclopedia Dramatica
  detailing everything
  now
12:47 AM obviously a direct approach would not wokr
  as in, a bargain whereby he deletes or allows you to respond within the post
  he won't accept that
  most people would
  but most people aren't already fucked
  in case I'm being cryptic
  I'll note that on a couple of occasions I have had employers who owed me money
  and refused to pay up
12:48 AM until such time as I made it such that the top result for their name was an account of their flaws and failures
  oh, you may have seen what I did to my girlfriend's faggot roommate
  MCCain and Donald Douglas both ran the video
  I took it down after he moved out
  again, though, not likely to work
  but Darleen Click
  she probably wouldn't like it if I were to reveal
12:49 AM that she asked me for favors
 Patrick: ?
 me: help getting into Mad Magazine, lol
  I've got the e-mails
  understand that I am considered a great villain over there
 Patrick: Oh, for her cartoons?
 me: and she folded like a fucking umbrella as soon as I offered help
  being a person of no real virtue
12:50 AM yeah, her "cartoons"
  not very talented, regardless of the politics
  ham-fisted
  that's just something to consider in terms of relevant elements, thoguh
  lemme google you real quick
12:51 AM I may have to bring some specialists in on this
 Patrick: Hm
12:53 AM me: sorry, fucking GF bitching at me on IM, just ignoring her now
 Patrick: Fucking GF!
 me: damn right
  oh, Douglas hates you too?
  oh
12:54 AM oh shit
  over McCain!
  okay, dude, we're gonna get this taken care of
  fucking Douglas
 Patrick: The Donalde?
12:55 AM me: yeah
 Patrick: Yeah
 me: fucking douche
  disingenuous
  I really respected you for being honest about McCain
  because most are't
  might hurt the precious cause
12:56 AM Patrick: I've tried to mend fences with McCain. I don't think he's necessarily a bad man. I have not retracted and

never will retract my belief that the statement I criticized him for was racist. But I still don't know that he is A

racist. Full disclosure
 me: I mean, I know you don't know all of it
  I don't dislike him
  we talk occasionally
  I talk to most of my enemies
  but, yeah, he has some beliefs that he won't admit to
 Patrick: Do I fall in that category? :)
  I don't think so
12:57 AM me: well, he did write that article for American Renaissance
  now, the article itself is not anti-black
 Patrick: Not so sure about that
 me: remember that I'm not a liberal
  I don't cry racism over nothing
  and I don't refer to him as racist
 Patrick: I researched his kids and I think it didn't quite add up
 me: dude
  I'm from Texas
 Patrick: The number of kids he had, that is
 me: wait, what?
12:58 AM Patrick: The American Renaissance article
 me: no, that was him
 Patrick: The person who wrote it talked about how many kids he had
 me: he hasn't said otherwise himself
 Patrick: Wasn't it under a pen name?
 me: yes
  the one he used elsewhere
  I put this in my book, man
 Patrick: I don't think it's the same number of kids
 me: it went through fact checkers and lawyers
  well
  how many did they mention in article?
12:59 AM it appeared in 2002
  some of his kids are young
  and it might have been written earlier
  suffice to say
  that he himself has all but acknowledged it was him
 Patrick: I think I tried to figure out when they were born
 me: I didn't realize others thought that was under dispute or I would have made the case more plainly
 Patrick: But I forget the details
 me: like I said, we confirmed it
  can't rememeber how
1:00 AM but it was good enough for the lawyers and fact-checkers
  anyway
  yeah, the guy is just overly pro-white
  I don't really care
  I'm not concerned about the extent to which someone is into his racial heritage, etc
  that's small beer
1:01 AM it''s just that he also makes accusations of racism
  and so have a lot of his colleagues
  without acknowledging this
  it's the dishonesty that infuriates me
  anyway
  back to the matter
  assuming this Donald Douglas article isn't damaging
1:02 AM I'm assuming that, I mean
  agreed?
  oh, ok
  just noticed that Jeff's piece is #2
1:03 AM I see
  pseudo-sarcastic charge of Semitism
  Protein Wisdom specialty
  well, for one thing
  as you're aware, to the extent that something else pushes it down, it gets... pushed down
1:04 AM to the extent you break some stories from those e-mails
  that will help
  but
  that's not enough
  I'd like to see Jeff beaten more severely
  might have to think this over
  talk to my Anons, etc
1:05 AM there's always a way
1:06 AM Patrick: Hm
  As long as any way is legal, I'm all for it
 me: well
1:07 AM what if it's legal...
  but
 Patrick: Do I need to hear the rest?
 me: nope
 Patrick: There you go
  It's legal, you say? Great!
 me: Good man
  Hooray!
  Yeah, we'll get on this