USChamber spying & character assasination pitch. Amazingly stupid!

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Dear All,

Since the US Chamber has played such a major role of adding politics,

confusion and contention to the mold issue, I found it fascinating that an IT

security company was pitching their DC lawyers, Hunton and , to

cyberstalk and character assassinate their adversaries. HGBary is located in

Sacramento. They were going to be presenting at a big conference in SF this

week how they had cracked who was Anonymous, that came to Wikileaks

defense and hacked a bunch of computers. However, HGBary closed their booth

and

canceled their presentations. Below are just a few of the emails Anonymous

hacked from the " security " company, HGBary that is headed by Barr.

This belongs on the TV show " Cops " where they show antics of stupid

criminals! This is right up there with the bank robber who got caught, cuz he

kept trying to push on the glass exit door to open it when he should have

just pulled.

_http://search.hbgary.anonleaks.ch/_ (http://search.hbgary.anonleaks.ch/)

" In all cases the following tactics apply. Use existing voices meet your

objectives. Profile not only the organizations but the existing opposition

so you know how to most effectively use them. Create multiple actors to

deliver against specific objectives. One person might be purely used to

burn in the process of legitimizing another personna. There is no cookie

cutter methodology. While certain methods can be used consistently, each

campaign is different and how you apply tactics to achieve objectives needs

to be tailored. Humor and ridicule always work better than dry facts. If

you can deliver facts through humor or ridicule all the better.

Uschamberwatch is very politically connected. Established by CtW and Andy

Stern. Associated with many powerful behind the scenes dc operatives. They

are not one to use theatrical performances or over jestures. The people in

this case are less important than the organization. So need to discredit

the organization. "

HB Email Viewer

aaron@...

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Here is what I have found today. The real good stuff will come once we

identify all these organization fronts and then start enumerating common

players, influencers, distributors, etc.

VelvetRevolution.us (“VRâ€) is a network of more than 120 progressive

organizations reaching millions of people demanding progressive change through

our VR Media, Electoral Reform, Conflict Resolution and Youth Revolution

Campaigns.

As I mentioned. The co-founders of the velvetrevolution are:

Brad Friedman and Brett Kimberlin

Brett has a bit of a checkered past and has been associated with some more

radical and violent activities.

Brad Friedman is much more mainstream and can often be seen on many of the

political talk shows.

They have registered the following other sites that are hosted on the same

IP address: 208.109.218.125

americancrossroadswatch.org

indictbreitbard.org

jtmp.org

kochwatch.org

op-critical.com

protectourelections.org

standingforvoters.org

velvetrevolution.us (gets about 1,000 US visitors a month)

Registered with godaddy.com

created: 2004-11-12

expires: 2011-11-11

Running Microsoft-IIS/6.0

PO BOX 9576

Washington DC 20016

(323) 850-1231

Stopthechamber.com is registered privately but repoints to

velvetrevolution, which makes no sense because I know who registered velvet

revolution.

Legal reprentation for velvetrevolution is Zeese

(301) 996-6582

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000110163348 & ref=sgm (has 3,474

friends - I have scraped them)

http://www.facebook.com/TheBradBlog?v=wall

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-The-US-Chamber-of-Commerce/16395777361536

9 (500 people)

http://www.facebook.com/VelvetRevolution.us (701 people - scraped them all)

Key Partners:

Movetoamend.org

thinkprogress.org

SEIU.org

Bradblog.com – Brad Friedman (co-founder) has done much of the work in

establishing the online presence and writing content.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=1117

http://www.facebook.com/TheBradBlog

http://twitter.com/TheBradBlog

Bradley Louis Friedman

(OMITTED, his address, date of birth, life partner, his sister's name and

address)

Desi is a producer, writer, photographer and editor for The Brad Blog and

co-host of the Green News Report.

http://Twitter.com/GreenNewsReport

Levy - Project Coordinator at the Velvet Revolution

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/emily-levy/1/651/120

http://www.facebook.com/emily.levy

http://www.thinkprogress.org

Created: 07-Dec-2009

Debbie Fine

http://www.facebook.com/debsfine

http://www.facebook.com/erikfine - brother

Center for American Progress Action Fund

Washington DC

http://www.facebook.com/americanprogress

Barr

CEO

HB Federal, LLC

719.510.8478

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not have any attachments. Team,

I was down on K and 17th street for another meeting yesterday and emailed

to see if he wanted to meet up. He immediately responded and I walked

two blocks over to their office.

The summary:

* According to while 2mill was more than they expected it was not

" Dead on Arrival " and is looking to push that number to the Chamber

* They are comfortable with explaining the value add of Berico and HB

because they understand how to frame paying for SMEs to the Chamber

* They were a little less clear on how to explain Palantir to the Chamber

to which I reiterated both the tactical and strategic talking points....I

think they get it now (Sam - did we ever forward them the doc we created for

this?)

* They seem to be fine with the Phase I money/proposal and my guess is we

will get approval to start the 30 period pretty soon

* They are still working the NDAs I gather and until those are finalized

we cant get any of their data

* After Phase I they are looking forward to briefing the results to the

Chamber to get them to pony up the cash for Phase II

* They still think that this team (H & W, Themis) has potential for huge

gains in this market especially since " the results of the election made some

people angry " ...god I love these guys......

* I met Quakenboss....he looks exactly like his name would suggest

Looks like we're in a decent state. Let's make sure to not give them much

in the way of analysis before they pay us for Phase I.

-Matt

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All,

Not much new to let you guys know about other than that we've reached back

out to Hunton and left a message and are waiting for them to get back to

us.

Sam

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All,

To my knowledge, all of our most incredibly successful deployments have

been when we focused solely on the customer mission. We've also managed to

succeed with some very difficult deployments that were driven by large RFPs

and lists of requirements; however, even when we check all of the boxes, the

outcome begs the question of what capability we've actually delivered.

Case in point, FBI Sentinel was driven by a 5 year RFP with a list of costs,

requirements, and deliverables and is widely seen as a failure - FBI

Palantir started with rapid operations success on the ground and iterated with

the client from there.

If we focus on a consensus-based list of requirements, my fear is that we

end up with the first case with the first outcome, which I don't think

anyone including H & W or their client desire. Do you think that we can focus H & W

and hopefully the Chamber to just give us the mission/objectives that they

want to achieve, and agree that we are best suited to be the product and

analytical experts who will get the job done?

The point here is that the client ultimately would be buying access to the

smartest, most capable people and technology in the world to solve

incredibly hard problems. We all have a track record of mission success, and we

have the right set of tools to make this reality.

Steckman and I are working on a document that lays all of this out in very

granular detail from the Palantir side - should have something for you

later today.

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Eli Bingham

Palantir Technologies | Forward Deployed Engineer

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Subject: Themis Labor Cats

Team,

I've attached a Labor Cat breakdown/excel has started. It is NOT yet

shaped for this effort, however it will provide the framework that HB

can insert their SMEs into, as well as the personnel that Palantir will

have at-hand to support the initiative.

She specifically did not include 'Hours' within this framework, as she

wanted to provide the max-participation outlook (as they are looking at this

to specifically justify each of our monthly bills).

At the bottom is a " Services " Section, she left it open for Palantir to

talk their product costs within the format/detail they desire.

Although this outlines traditional education/years experience, she highly

encourage everyone to talk as in-depth as possible to what special skillset

the individuals will be bringing to the contract and how that

differentiates us (ie. outline " Influence Operations SME " versus " Consultant "

and

explain what they bring that is above and beyond a normal analyst).

If you can please include this information/erase everything else, we will

compile into one. We will need resumes as well for key personnel and what

labor cat they are going to be billed within this excel. We will work on our

end to put them all into the same format.

Thanks

Sam

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Kremin

Analyst/Consultant

Berico Technologies

703.473.1493 From: Barr <aaron@...> Sam Kremin

<skremin@...> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:50:25 -0500

Subject: Re: Requests

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Attachments: Ok i am going to type this out and if you don't mind

prettying this up. The

Palantir load on my MacBook corrupted the system files so I need to

reinstall when i get home. So trusty iPad has to do for now.

In all cases the following tactics apply. Use existing voices meet your

objectives. Profile not only the organizations but the existing opposition

so you know how to most effectively use them. Create multiple actors to

deliver against specific objectives. One person might be purely used to

burn in the process of legitimizing another personna. There is no cookie

cutter methodology. While certain methods can be used consistently, each

campaign is different and how you apply tactics to achieve objectives needs

to be tailored. Humor and ridicule always work better than dry facts. If

you can deliver facts through humor or ridicule all the better.

Uschamberwatch is very politically connected. Established by CtW and Andy

Stern. Associated with many powerful behind the scenes dc operatives. They

are not one to use theatrical performances or over jestures. The people in

this case are less important than the organization. So need to discredit

the organization.

1. Paint USChamberWatch as an operative of CtW and the unions. At the same

time need to highlight the organization of the unions against the chamber.

Show the flow of union members to CtW and the closeness of CtW and

USCHamberwatch.

2. Talk about the unions being an inhibitor to progress against the

chambers

focus of staying on top of a changing world. Forcing jobs to stay in the us

and fighting for unrealistic individual benefits in a downed economy is

hurting the US and employees which the chamber is working to ensure US

businesses prosper in a global economy and fostering the creation of new

jobs in the us through fostering innovation and technological advancement.

Something like that. Packaged in the right mediums this could be powerful.

3. Might try creating a false document and see if they pick it up.

Probably financial information for a period they have explicit evidence

such tap transaction didn't occur. Create a fake insider personna and start

communications with CtW. At the right point release the actual documents

and paint this as an CtW contrived operation. They can't be trusted to

stick to truth, etc.

4. Make the connection to velvet revolution and their radical tactics. That

they are all loosely operating together. Depending on the level if

connection we can make this may need to be more conspiracy based by a

separate but very vocal personna.

5. If needed we may need t create two fake insider personnas using one to

discredit the other giving the second immediate legitimacy. This is

complicated and needs to be well thought out. You need a few different

strategies fir this to work thinking through the vetting question

USChamberWatch will likely ask.

6. Create a humor piece about the leaders of CtW.

Velvet revolution is a radical theatrical organization. They like the

spotlight. In this case there are personalities and back office operatives.

They are a grassroots organization with many ties to other grassroots

groups. They run on limited funds and work on the fringes of the political

process. Their job is to make noise and keep the argument alive in the

public.

1. Attack kimberlin and after a series of attacks on his person start

making ties to the back office folks like keese, gelt, and Cohen

discrediting them by association. Done in the right way this can cause them

to distance themselves and also funders from kimberlin. Ridicule

2. Attack their antics as self-serving and childish.

3. It should be easy to create some information and get them to run with

it. In this case since their are such vocal supporters and opponents

manipulate them both to further this course. This will take a few different

persons to play the different groups. Need to classify their constituency

and appropriate actions to illicit the right responses.

Some basic thoughts. Problem with this is without a full analysis we are

shooting from the hip without complete data and courses of action. I really

am anxious of providing this to them for fear the will use it to judge our

overall ability. Cart before the horse. Not sure if you want more direct

associations with more enumerated individuals. I have some preliminary

analysis but that should be a result of paid analysis.

Sent from my iPad

On Nov 29, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Sam Kremin <skremin@...>

wrote:

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Yeah, don't put a ton of effort into the mock report. I think just

something

as simple as what you've told me about the difference between velvet and

uschamberwatch and really simply their pressure points would be more than

enough. Regarding meeting with Bob, I hope that either tomorrow or more

likely Wednesday we can meet. Once they respond to our labor cat

submission,

I'll see what they would be available for.

Sam

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Barr <aaron@...> wrote:

> Working on the resumes. On the report sure. We are finishing up our

> drive today so I will get to it soonest. Basically what it will

> entail is a link chart of key people in the distribution of

> information, background information on each individual and ways to

> counteract their effect on group.. I don't have these unclassified so

> I would have to cut from scratch and as I understood the conversation

> he didn't want us to put that level of effort into it? Thoughts? Are

> we getting together with Bob this week?

>

> From my iPhone

>

> On Nov 29, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Sam Kremin <skremin@...>

> wrote:

>

> > ,

> > I hope you are not worse for the wear after your trek to the midwest.

> Today, like I said in the other Email, we'll be creating mock intel

reports

> to give to Hunton. Could you make up a mock report that you think would

be

> the most helpful for the lay people at Hunton to understand what you

would

> be doing? Also, could you send over the resumes of the people who will

work

> this project, so that we can include them with our resumes and the

reports?

> >

> > Thanks,

> > Sam

> >

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> > Kremin

> > Analyst/Consultant

> > Berico Technologies

> > 703.473.1493

> >

>

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Kremin

Analyst/Consultant

Berico Technologies

703.473.1493