John Little

Throughout the last two days of coverage, media outlets have almost entirely refrained from characterizing the efforts made by myself and the Mexican nationals with whom I've been working with such terms as "grandstanding," "silly," and the like. To the contrary, today's post by Blogs of War founder John Little (http://blogsofwar.com/2011/11/04/barrett-brown-anonymous-charging-forward-with-opcartel/) does that and more. Little is perfectly entitled to express any opinions he likes, even without backing them up via recourse to the past work that I and others have done. Likewise, I am entitled to point out a few things about Little that might help to explain why he has joined Gawker in denouncing those of us who have moved to act against the cartels.

1. A few months ago, when I released my report on Romas/COIN (http://www.echelon2.org/wiki/Romas/COIN), Little was the only individual with the media to dismiss it as a "conspiracy theory" (conspiracies, in the view of the partially educated, are silly things to theorize about, even when one is drawing upon 70,000 internal e-mails as I did). That the Guardian ran my announcement on the report, and that it has since been endorsed by former Able Danger participant Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and reported on by Der Spiegel, ABC Australia, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, and other outlets, and set to appear more fully in a major book that will appear next year, does not seem to have changed his position, which never included a single argument to begin with.

2. It is probably worth mentioning that Little is a former client of SAIC, one of the firms that are mentioned in that report as having sought the Romas/COIN contract and which my organization Project PM has detailed further here (http://www.echelon2.org/wiki/SAIC).

3. Perhaps it should also be noted that he also performed services for Lockheed Martin, another firm whose classified operations, including UNO/Gatorbait, are being assessed by my organization as well.

4. This fucking genius notes on his LinkedIn page that he "Developed and executed a months long blogger relations campaign for a Washington D.C. think tank that was designed to increase the visibility of positive developments in the 2003 war in Iraq."

5. ... whereas he nonetheless claims in today's blog post that "My primary concern is the number of innocent people who could get caught in the Anonymous-Cartel crossfire and die as a result," a concern that has been expressed by almost no one in Mexico thus far, where the crossfire is an everyday occurrence and all too rarely takes down the cartel members who are responsible for this situation.

In conclusion, if Mr. Little continues to attack my work without backing up his assertions with actual research or at least claims that do not actually go so far as to redefine irony, I will ensure that his name is forever attached to his own work, which has already contributed to one of the greatest failures in American history.