Monday, November 28, 2011

My emails with SEIU New Media Campaign Manager Josh Glastetter

Update:

Josh Glasstetter denies leaking my information to Bradblog and claims that he left SEIU a few weeks ago.

He argues that just telling me he worked for SEIU should have sufficed to explain his motivations for contacting me. I'm not the kind of journalist who attacks the "enemies" of liberals. I don't think unions should be paying people to contact journalists and send them tips or vice versa. I had no clue that SEIU practiced such despicable propaganda tactics - if that's what they paid him to do - and I never would have written him back if I knew that.

I have no clue what the official job description the New Media Campaign Manager for the Service Employees International (SEIU) is, but it apparently has something to do with sending emails to journalists and then leaking stuff to friendly blogs in order to fight back against enemies such as the US Chamber of Commerce.

On October 17, Josh Glasstetter sent me the following message on Facebook, "Hey Ron, I work for SEIU. Michael Rogers can vouch for me. I just saw your tweet about Ryan and Barr. What's the significance of the 'stay frosty' comment? I ask because I've discovered emails which show that Barr was working with Ryan to spy on Occupy Wall Street. Please get back to me here or at josh.glasstetter@seiu.org."



Looking back now, I kind of feel stupid not realizing he mentioned SEIU in his message, but I had no clue that he was pumping me for info on behalf of a union, nor that he would end up leaking my information to The Brad Blog. I just thought it was someone who could help me fight back against Neal Rauhauser - who may be connected to The Brad Blog - and writers for Andrew Breitbart who have menaced me and many of my sources for the last five months.

[Editor's Note: No one in the blogosphere or media will report on the five month long menacing waged by the Breitbart gang against me, after a New York Times journalist asked me to defend a story I helped her report. I've been smeared, menaced with bizarre tweets and scary emails, accused of ridiculous crimes and been told the FBI and multiple law enforcement agencies are probing me, but porn, Weiner, Breitbart, cyberbullying, Anonymous, swattings and The New York Times somehow don't add up to a reportable story.]

But Glasstetter never told me he was the "New Media Campaign Manager" for a union I publicly despise - since they are tied to the Netroots - and then he ignored my subsequent emails and blocked me after he got what he wanted.

I checked his Twitter feed today after my email to him bounced back, and noticed that a week after emailing me he RT'd an article at The Brad Blog.



U.S. Chamber's Disgraced Smear Plot Conspirator, 'Anonymous' Foe, Aaron Barr Found Collaborating with Self-Appointed #OccupyWallStreet 'Snitch' contains some information from my correspondence with the SEIU New Media Campaign Manager such as the following:

In this September exchange, Ryan (who tweets under the name of his company, @ProvideSecurity, as well as a number of other aliases) replies to a tweet from Barr with "Stay Frosty," a phrase defined at Urban Dictionary as "A valediction which has come to mean 'be cool,' but which more properly understood is an admonishment to stay alert and on one's toes." Another user at Urban Dictionary defines it as "Something only a tool, wanna be rapper, or some who's trying to be cool uses."



While I think it's really sleazy what Glastetter did, what Brad Friedman did is even worse. How many of his blog posts are based on information obtained by the New Media Campaign Manager for SEIU?

Here's our unedited correspondence, taken from various emails:



Hey Ron, thanks for writing back.

I'm not sure what you mean when you say that Thomas Ryan and Provide Security could be a hoax. They may be a joke, but they're real. Ryan has been on the scene for a long time.

Did you see the Barr was cc'd on the email to Jordan Loyd?

Best,
Josh

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Ron Brynaert <ronbrynaert@yahoo.com> wrote:
it means be cool or more specifically "Stay alert"

it's a military term that they use in movies and call of duty games

I retweeted many bizarre tweets by @providesecurity the other day if you check my twitter timeline

i'm not certain but i think the jester, thomas ryan and provide security are a hoax which might be being perpetrated by a menacing, scary clown named Neal Rauhauser aka Stranded Wind who has glommed on to the ows movement. He actually smeared me to Mike and to the NY times and has been harassing me with 4chan trolls since i worked on a Weiner related article with the Times in June.

Rauhauser - im fairly certain - is behind death threats to multiple bloggers and is allegedly being investigated by multiple Law enforcement agencies..but i only have that from multiple sources...not from any leas myself.

But he's scary...and is using @WeOccupyAmerica and @AnonyOps and other anonymous twitter accounts..

He has tricked me countless times and made me attack lots of people..because he pretends to be with Daily Kos, Raw Story, and lots of others. He IS attached to Beth Becker and PST and that clown Jesse LaGreca who is getting lots of hype.

He spread hoax diaries about HBGary in january

And was facebook friends with Lamo.....and created this fake twitter account for Chet Uber...I have no clue if he was part of Project Vigilant hoax from the beginning or glommed on to it.

There's also a character named Asher Wolf who tweets about Wiki stuff but i think is really involved in hoaxes. I'm not sure if he's connected to Neal..but he's definitely knee deep in the Project Vigilant hoax because after I exposed the Chet Uber sock Wolf and others kept the legend alive after he deleted his account...

I contacted the same FBI agent Ryan did and he just put me in touch with the press office...i seriously doubt the FBI says thanks and CC's your email to another agent without checking with superiors or lawyers etc.

and there's no way that provide security could hack NSA and DoD employees and not be probed by the feds....so i think the whole thing smells.

Rauhauser was later behind the leaking of the hbgary documents and gave tips to every liberal blogger from raw story to empty wheel to brad blog.

.................

hmmm interesting

it makes no sense to me that Barr would speak there...and ryan is connected to the jester...this could get embarrassing for the fbi...

but..again..we are dealing with hackers here...and if you don't believe me contact jen preston at the new york times who ran away from this story because of neal rauhauser punking her



From: Josh Glasstetter <josh.glasstetter@seiu.org>
To: Ron Brynaert
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 9:58 PM
Subject: Re: Barr and Ryan speaking at FBI-sponsored conference @ Fordham

try http://www.iccs.fordham.edu/program/

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Ron Brynaert <ronbrynaert@yahoo.com> wrote:
i dont see them listed at the website:

From: Josh Glasstetter <josh.glasstetter@seiu.org>
To: Ron Brynaert <ronbrynaert@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 9:29 PM

Subject: Barr and Ryan speaking at FBI-sponsored conference @ Fordham

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[...]
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Former Chief Executive Officer
HBGary Federal, Washington DC, USA
[...]
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Managing Partner
Provide Security, USA
[...]
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they don't all have to be hacked

the whole thing doesn't have to be a hoax

just parts..

i haven't had time to research Project Vigilant itself...but that hoax reached the MSM...and it's connected to hbgary

rauhauser also was a gobetween for emails taken from arizona law enforcement servers...the racist ones....well...i think its possible some were faked

but again i don't have hard evidence of any of this....i do have hard evidence on Weinergate but no one wants to listen lol

all i know is the media and the blogs suck...and the misreporting on OWS and Weinergate and everything else since Anonymous put the plan into action in june is suspect

and all i know is i've been a freaking pawn in this battle between neal rauhauser clowns and andrew breitbart clowns for four months....and i thought they were all working together...but then they confuse me again

check out my blog for all the crazy stuff that's happened to me the last four months: www.ronbryn.blogspot.com

i mean jeez the media have been ignoring this story for four months....weinergate victims were harassed....new york times reporter punk'd.....alleged swatting threats against la district attorney patterico...who is either a fraud or an asshole

its entertaining even if you think im nuts.....but the fact is that hundreds of people were in Journolist and hell that's one thing that im glad Thomas Ryan is exposing.....how all these hacks are lying about ows...like they lied about tea parties

two movements coopted by astroturf, bad reporting (probably deliberate) and the parties.

i think im gonna move to france lol...i live in a country where two sides lie about each other all the media sucks and you can't trust anyone!

peace


From: Josh Glasstetter <josh.glasstetter@seiu.org>
To: Ron Brynaert
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: "Want an intro to Tom Ryan? The robin sage guy."

I'm familiar with some of that fake news, so I'm with you there.

I downloaded the HBGary emails right away on BitTorrent, and there were tens of thousands, not just hundreds. It seems to me like it'd be a monumental undertaking to falsify that many emails. Perhaps you're suggesting that only a small portion of the full set of emails is falsified. That would a much easier feat to pull off.

As I understand it, the Themis group was focused on connecting more established groups with VR because of VR's fringey/shady background and reputation. Barr and the other Themis team members intentionally overestimated VR's role and reach in order to attack much more influential progressive groups. Or at least that's how I currently understand it.

Yeah, it definitely sounds like Rauhauser is trying to pull something, but that doesn't indicate to me that the emails are therefore necessarily a hoax.

I'm going to sign off for the night. This has been interesting, but I'm not sure what to think.

Let me know if you come across anything good, and I'll do likewise.

Best,
Josh

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Ron Brynaert <ronbrynaert@yahoo.com> wrote:
Skeptical? I've busted them for spreading hoaxes and fake news for eight years and i was blacklisted by the entire liberal blogosphere...and they are all a bunch of hacks.

But anyway...you must not know much about Trolls and hackers..because they definitely could create hundreds of emails if they wanted. That's not a legitimate reason to believe it must be true.

The HBGary charts over emphasized velvet revolution and brad blog which smells....and again you're not listening....

Neal Rauhauser spread hoaxes related to HBGary...then a few months later was the point man for these emails....

That's fishy, wouldn't you say?
From: Josh Glasstetter <josh.glasstetter@seiu.org>
To: Ron Brynaert <ronbrynaert@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 9:57 PM

Subject: Re: "Want an intro to Tom Ryan? The robin sage guy."

There's obviously a lot of history between you and the netroots crowd and some of the allied organizations, but I'm not familiar it. For all I knew, you were on good terms with the Raw Story crew.

I don't really have a personal stake in that stuff.

I think you're definitely right to be skeptical of many of the folks who jumped on the HBGary leaks bandwagon, but it boggles my mind how anyone (or any small group) could pull off a hoax of such magnitude (writing tends of thousands of emails). Are there any posts you can point me to that discuss this in more detail?

Best,
Josh

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Ron Brynaert <ronbrynaert@yahoo.com> wrote:
My general opinion is that it's a hoax like many of the other things that laris, bradblog and Velvet Revolution pushed at Raw Story before I became executive editor and turned them away..and before mike and john cheated me, lied to me and sold out to the netroots assholes

From: Josh Glasstetter <josh.glasstetter@seiu.org>
To: Ron Brynaert <ronbrynaert@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: "Want an intro to Tom Ryan? The robin sage guy."
Is Rauhauser connected to Lulzsec?

What's your general opinion of the HBGary Federal email leak?

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Ron Brynaert <ronbrynaert@yahoo.com> wrote:
um yeah leaked through hoaxer neal rauhauser

From: Josh Glasstetter <josh.glasstetter@seiu.org>
To: Ron Brynaert <ronbrynaert@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 9:25 PM
Subject: "Want an intro to Tom Ryan? The robin sage guy."

from Palantir's Steckman to Barr from the leaked HBGary Federal emails:

> ------Original Message------
> From: Aaron Barr
> To: Matthew Steckman
> Subject: Re: Confirming lunch tomorrow
> Sent: Aug 4, 2010 12:12 PM
>
> Speaking of "Robin". Did I send you my social media presentation I gave at REBL?
>
> Aaron
>
> On Aug 4, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Matthew Steckman wrote:
>
>> Want an intro to Tom Ryan? The robin sage guy.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Aaron Barr <aaron@hbgary.com>
>> To: Matthew Steckman
>> Cc: Aaron Zollman
>> Sent: Wed Aug 04 08:49:07 2010
>> Subject: Re: Confirming lunch tomorrow
>>
>> Alright. I love being propositioned.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Matthew Steckman <msteckman@palantir.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Zollman is going to join, he has a proposition for you...teaser alert!


yeah and i totally believe that blue haired dudes work with the feds

but then i also totally believe that matt stoller and chris bowers and daily kos and move on have nothing to do with ows and that it isnt mostly bullshit astroturf and that SEIU is a great organization that doesn't work with slimy corrupt markos and that the white house is right to support strikes by govt workers and that greg sargent and ezra and the other journolist hacks are all nonpartisan...and that no one is sugarcoatinig retarded rallies that couldn't even attract a radiohead sized crowd on a day when hackers lied about them playing



From: Josh Glasstetter <josh.glasstetter@seiu.org>
To: Ron Brynaert
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: blue-haired Aaron Barr at Occupy Wall Street

his current Twitter profile pic:

https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/1592641953/image.jpg




speaking of the FBI and agent Jordan Loyd, check out the NYIT press release mentioned in the Gawker story:

http://www.nyit.edu/about_nyit/news-full/securing_the_world_from_cyber_attacks_at_nyit_cyber_security_conference/

[...]

FBI agents John Leo and Jordan Loyd named hacktivists – individuals who hack systems to draw attention to a particular issue – as newly emerging threats to U.S. information systems. As an example, Leo and Loyd cited this weekend’s scheduled “Occupy Wall Street.” Virtual organizers are using sites like Facebook and Twitter to call for peaceful protests on Wall Street on Sept. 17 for corporate and government change. The agents said they have been monitoring the event on cyberspace and are preparing to meet it with physical security.

Rauhauser is a nut..but yeah i've been probing this Ryan guy...and I even have someone at Breitbart a little suspicious too

there's been a lot of hoaxes perpetrated this summer through anonymous...

and essentially i've spent the last four months working on rauhauser who smeared me to the high heavens...

but..yes...i think everything about hbgary and provide security smells and is a possible hoax...i could be wrong....if so...then they just greatly exaggerate everything
From: Josh Glasstetter <josh.glasstetter@seiu.org>
To: Ron Brynaert
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: stay frosty

Wow... I just Googled Rauhauser. I'm not familiar, nor do I want to be judging by what came up.

I just sent over all the most interesting tidbits I've located re Barr and Ryan.

The two Barr/Ryan emails came from the PST file uploaded by Ryan to Big Government (oops!).

Feel free to use any of the material and/or pass it along, but just not with attribution to me.

Would love to hear your thoughts.

Best,
Josh

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Josh Glasstetter <josh.glasstetter@seiu.org> wrote:
Hey Ron, thanks for writing back.

I'm not sure what you mean when you say that Thomas Ryan and Provide Security could be a hoax. They may be a joke, but they're real. Ryan has been on the scene for a long time.

Did you see the Barr was cc'd on the email to Jordan Loyd?

Best,
Josh

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Ron Brynaert <ronbrynaert@yahoo.com> wrote:
it means be cool or more specifically "Stay alert"

it's a military term that they use in movies and call of duty games

I retweeted many bizarre tweets by @providesecurity the other day if you check my twitter timeline

i'm not certain but i think the jester, thomas ryan and provide security are a hoax which might be being perpetrated by a menacing, scary clown named Neal Rauhauser aka Stranded Wind who has glommed on to the ows movement. He actually smeared me to Mike and to the NY times and has been harassing me with 4chan trolls since i worked on a Weiner related article with the Times in June.

Rauhauser - im fairly certain - is behind death threats to multiple bloggers and is allegedly being investigated by multiple Law enforcement agencies..but i only have that from multiple sources...not from any leas myself.

But he's scary...and is using @WeOccupyAmerica and @AnonyOps and other anonymous twitter accounts..

He has tricked me countless times and made me attack lots of people..because he pretends to be with Daily Kos, Raw Story, and lots of others. He IS attached to Beth Becker and PST and that clown Jesse LaGreca who is getting lots of hype.

He spread hoax diaries about HBGary in january

And was facebook friends with Lamo.....and created this fake twitter account for Chet Uber...I have no clue if he was part of Project Vigilant hoax from the beginning or glommed on to it.

There's also a character named Asher Wolf who tweets about Wiki stuff but i think is really involved in hoaxes. I'm not sure if he's connected to Neal..but he's definitely knee deep in the Project Vigilant hoax because after I exposed the Chet Uber sock Wolf and others kept the legend alive after he deleted his account...

I contacted the same FBI agent Ryan did and he just put me in touch with the press office...i seriously doubt the FBI says thanks and CC's your email to another agent without checking with superiors or lawyers etc.

and there's no way that provide security could hack NSA and DoD employees and not be probed by the feds....so i think the whole thing smells.

Rauhauser was later behind the leaking of the hbgary documents and gave tips to every liberal blogger from raw story to empty wheel to brad blog.


..............


heh neal rauhauser sent me those exact two links on friday and said that ryan was Dan Wolfe (from weinergate who was a source of mine0...if you look at his @WeOccupyAmerica twitter timeline you can see him saying it a bunch of times

From: Josh Glasstetter <josh.glasstetter@seiu.org>
To: Ron Brynaert
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 9:30 PM
Subject: Tom Ryan featured at Palantir event

http://www.palantirtech.com/pnl/tom-ryan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=z0eAJzfISMU

...............





From: Loyd, Jordan T. <Jordan.Loyd@ic.fbi.gov>
Sent time: Sunday, September 18, 2011 12:25:31 PM
To: tom.ryan@providesecurity.com
Cc: Yum, Ilhwan <Ilhwan.Yum@ic.fbi.gov>
Subject: Re: SPAM-MED: Re: [september17discuss] RE: [september17discuss} Outreach to Workers


Thanks!

From: Thomas Ryan <tom.ryan@providesecurity.com>
To: Loyd, Jordan T.
Cc: Aaron Barr <adbarr@me.com>
Sent: Sun Sep 18 14:23:15 2011
Subject: Fw: SPAM-MED: Re: [september17discuss] RE: [september17discuss} Outreach to Workers

Secured By ProvideSecurity.com

From: Conor <cocoreed@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:17:22 -0400
Subject: SPAM-MED: Re: [september17discuss] RE: [september17discuss} Outreach to Workers

+ 1,000,000 to Jackie's proposal on working people / union struggles outreach and solidarity.

Also, why not invite people to protest Troy Davis's execution date at Liberty Plaza this Monday?

-Conor



On Sep 18, 2011, at 1:43 PM, "Jackie DiSalvo" <jdisalvo@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

We need more outreach to workers. The best way to do that is by showing solidarity with them. We can start by passing resolutions announcing our support for Hotel Trades Council workers on strike at the Central Park Boathouse restaurant and the struggles of NYC Local 1199, SEIU (Social Service Employees Union) at Brookdale Hospital and Long Island Hospital in Brooklyn, also those facing layoffs including school aides, Local 372, DC (District Council) 37, AFSCME (American Federation State, County and Municipal Employees) and school bus drivers from the NYC ATU (Amalgamated Transit Union); of the CWA (Communication Workers of America) against demands for concessions at Verizon, of the struggle of Local 100 TWU (Transit Workers Union), to amend the NY anti-strike Taylor Law and of the UFT (United Federation of Teachers) to extend the Millionaire's Tax and the NNU (National Nurses United) to get a financial transactions tax.

-----Original Message-----
From: september17@googlegroups.com [mailto:september17@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Schneider
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 10:55 AM
To: september17@googlegroups.com
Subject: [september17discuss] WNV video: #OccupyWallStreet begins, and improvises

A bit of video from yesterday. Will try to fix the aspect ratio or

whatever you call it. Thanks to all who spoke with us! See you in a

few hours!

http://wagingnonviolence.org/2011/09/occupywallstreet-begins-and-improvises/

Nathan

-

Nathan Schneider

Editor, Waging Nonviolence

http://wagingnonviolence.org





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