What Is Neal Rauhauser Up To? Part 1

by Lee Stranahan | Jun 14, 2024 | Interesting | 1 comment

I haven’t talked much about Neal Ruahauser and his role in the Team Kimberlin story.

That’s about to change.

Here’s a document dump of recent emails between Neal and Ex Con’s View blogger Paul Lemmen.

No commentary from me right now. More coming.

From: neal rauhauser
Date: Mon, Jun 11, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Subject: Understanding what happened /w Aaron Walker
To: Paul Lemmen <
Cc: Justice Through Music (
Paul,

Just got back from my daily duties on Capitol Hill and I wanted to give you a little more background.

First, the following people write about things and they tend to produce good background information, even though both are ideologically biased.

Lane Lipton - http://qritiq.wordpress.com - she has been tracking the Weinergate saga and probably has a better grasp than most. She is assisted by @ronbyrn, who is as crazy as a bed bug, but he was a damned good researcher before he became unwell in 2010, so he digs and digs, then rants and rants, then people help him sort out truth from fiction. Also in the mix is Mike Stack, @CryingWolfeBlog, the only real swatting victim so far - he got done 6/23/2011, and it was due to his involvement in Weinergate, not due to anything Brett did - he’d never heard of him until about three months ago when Aaron Walker prompted him to blog about him. There was one post, since taken down.

Breitbart Unmasked - http://breitbartunmasked.com - dunno who this is, guy frankly scares the crap out of me - seems like former military intel, diplomatic corps, or some such. We’ve had back channel discussions, he’s been to the sandbox, he’s “seen the elephant”, so to speak.

The bad actors in this, by my book, include:

Seth Allen, South Easton, MA. Psych disability, constant internet troll, sued by Brett after two years of smearing him, he finally turned up for a damages hearing on September 14th of last year, and got arrested for disorderly conduct. You can Google Maryland Court cases, this all happened in Rockville, which is in Montgomery County. It’s Seth L. Allen, search for cases between about 9/1/2024 and today to see the whole story.

Someone was funding Seth and it was either John Patrick Frey, or Aaron Walker. We know this via an admission in a court filing - he couldn’t come to a hearing because his ‘friend’ would not send him $200 to make the trip. Walker showed up at a contempt hearing January 9th in Rockville. He is a Virginia lawyer, but tried to insert himself into the proceedings. The judge ejected him, he waited outside the court room, and then assaulted Brett, acting on the mistaken belief that Brett’s iPad was a bomb. This we know via admissions he made during a later peace order hearing. LIke Allen, this man has mental difficulties - he has admitted to some perceptual problems that required special allowances during law school - private exam rooms, and in court he is simply unable to contain himself, which offends the judge Every! Single! Time! He’s Aaron Justin Walker, again with the court search, and limit dates from 1/1/2024 through today.

I think Frey is the center of this crap - he has been investigated twice for stalking/harassment (Brett, both times), he is now being sued by Nadia Naffe for dumping her documents. If you look at the history he has taken advantage of Seth Allen (psych disability), Ron Brynaert (psych disability), Aaron Walker (will be on psych disability, he’s done as a lawyer IMHO), and I suspect he has his fingers in what “Michelle Lessick” aka @ZAPEM does(probable psych disability, always online, always spouting conspiracy theories). No court cases for him in Maryland (yet) and I sent you the relevant pieces on him in earlier PDFs.

Weinergate is a puzzle, but here is my studied opinion on the matter. Mike Grimm, former FBI undercover, now Congressman for NY-13 attempted to extort a Jewish congregation on Staten Island. The rabbi went to Weiner, he reported it, and that got the investigation rolling. A couple of weeks later a crew started following Weiner online, presenting porn stars, hookers, fake underage teens, trying to get him sexting. They fabricated some teens, leaked it, and we almost broke it up before he was forced to resign. Weiner finally came out about the stuff with Grimm in May - he waited until the primary was done, then saddled the GOP with a guy that may get indicted.

Frey dropped Naffe’s dox in order to intimidate/guide people in how to attack her. This was done to protect James O’Keefe - Frey has been his most vocal defender, and I think they used to work together. So that’s an obstruction of justice attempt in New Hampshire, and it probably just overflowed into federal stuff due to one of O’Keefe’s crew posing as Attorney General Eric Holder and attempting to vote using his name.

Also on my bad actors list, but lacking specific court docs here to back it up, are:

Mandy Nagy aka @Liberty_Chick. Mouthy pain in the ass, Seth’s original arrest was triggered in part by her reporting a death threat he made to Brett to the Montgomery County police (check me, Brett - was it there, or South Easton, where he lives?)

Douglas Matthew Stewart aka @dmatthewstewart. He is a stupid little con man, only plausible to grade schoolers, and he does astonishingly stupid stuff. He was involved in a computer intrusion at nextstreet.com, dumping private information. I interviewed the victim and they declined to pursue it. He’s done this several times since, but I never get a good solid read so I can set the feds on him. He’s such a shit he’s not a high priority - I figure he’s gonna hang himself pretty quickly the way he plays.

I will provide what court room audio and documents I have if you need more than the web site provides. I should mention that I faced harassment charges from Mike Stack in New Jersey. He was steered to attack me - he’s another person on psych disability that Frey picked out and victimized. I prepared counter charges, but thought better of it, and it was all dismissed via mediation several weeks ago. He seems a nice enough guy in person, but he is very easily led, and he ends up on point for stuff no competent adult would involve themselves in …

I am going to also send an introductory email for you and Jeannie McBride - she’s @JeannieMcBride on Twitter, and she’s been through the wringer with “Michelle Lessick”, @SwiftRead, @GregWHoward, etc. Her daughter was snatched off the street and violently raped literally the same week that she had a falling out with that group, and they spent six months broadcasting personal information about her and her daughter, telling her that they were going to help the rapist find her so he could do both of them. She and I are polar opposites on policy, but we talk on the phone about kids and our sore backs and these crazy people who bother us - she’s good people, and I think right near Nashville.

It’s an enormous wad of crap to digest, and it would be amazingly good if you’d help sort out fact from fiction on this stuff …

Neal

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: neal rauhauser

Date: Mon, Jun 11, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: Howard Berkowitz
To: lemmen

Everyone’s life is the same length - beginning, end, and the middle stretches from point A to point B. It’s how you use it that matters. You’ve done some crazy, epic shit over the years, like Catch Me If You Can in real life. Now you’re on final approach, and you’re cleaning house hardcore, like few I’ve ever seen since I went through my big change about twenty years ago. Humbles me, it does, to see someone testing the line between rigorous honesty and brutal honest, which is your last epic move 🙂

Ron Brynaert’s Statement About Doug Stewart

by Lee Stranahan | Jun 13, 2024 | Interesting | 1 comment

Ron Brynaert sent me the following email. I am printing it as-is, although I have redacted some names and email addresses.

My statement, Lee, are questions for you to answer:

1). Do you think I’m an asshole for criticizing Doug after he threatened to post Social Security numbers of members of #OWS and Anonymous last fall?

2). Do you believe Doug was attacked with an ice pick by Anonymous last year? And do you believe Doug that BarrettBrownLOL and Anonymous or anyone charged $10,000 to his grandfather’s credit card, which he told me on the last night we talked on the phone? Does he have police or FBI reports to prove either of those allegations?

3) Do you think Doug was lying or just forgot that he went after Darrah Ford on Twitter last June but argued with me that he wasn’t working with Liberty Chick until July after he was introduced to Mike Stack?

4). Do you agree with Mandy that Doug went “over the line” in this email and can you please publish it on your charming website?

That’s all I have to say regarding Doug, for now..

Ron Brynaert Implies People Tried To Frame Him For Swatting Calls : Doug Stewart Responds

by Lee Stranahan | Jun 13, 2024 | Interesting | 0 comments

Last Friday, CNN did two reports on the SWATing call made to Erick Erickson. Here’s the segment from Don Lemmon, which played the 911 call for the first time.

Here’s an audio compilation of the other Swatting Calls plus the Swatter calling into my podcast the night of the Erickson’s SWATing.

Some people think the calls sound like former Raw Story editor Ron Brynaert. Patterico has written about Ron and why he believes Ron may be the SWATer.

What’s interesting is that on Friday night after CNN did two segments, Ron Byrnaert — who is @RonBryn on Twitter — did a flurry of tweets that decried his lack of involvement. That in itself is weird.

In one tweet, Ron said :

Be wary if @TommyXtopher @CalebHoweor @DMatthewStewart ever ask you to call, since you might hear someone mimicking your voice if you do.

A bizarre implication and admission that the SWAT calls do, in fact, sound like Ron Brynaert — especially the Erickson one. Why else mention that people were trying to mimick your voice?

So I reached out to one of the accused, Doug Stewart.

I’m reprinting Doug’s response in full.

Hey Lee,

On numerous occasions I tried to have civil conversations with Ron Brynaertregarding Weinergate, the Swatting of Mike Stack and Patterico, and everything else that could even be remotely related to the story. Most of our phone calls were late at night and were always hours upon hours long. The last time we spoke it was a 4 hour conversation. In those conversations more than 90% of the time was Ron talking non-stop about his theories on everything. And when I say everything I mean, literally, everything.

Interstingly enough Ron does not allow anyone (me) to ask what he means when his theories seem far-fetched or out of place. He immediately switches into attack mode and began to accuse me of knowing exactly what he was talking about and would be absolutely furious that I was “playing dumb” even though I really did not know what he was talking about. When I tried to offer an alternative theory or idea to his he would again become instantly enraged and call me stupid, out of touch, or again, part of some sort of conspiracy. I always found this odd since I talk with many people about this same subject and all its details an no one has ever acted this way; going from presenting an idea to full blown hysterical anger when a question is asked regarding a detail.

The History

The first time I spoke to Ron on the phone (and forgive me I dont remember when it was but it was not too long after Stack’s swatting) it was because someone had called me when I was on my way home from the bar and asked “Who is this @ronbryn guy on twitter? He is freaking out and calling you an asshole.” I had obtained Ron’s number and decided to call him even though it was nearing 2am. I figured if he was tweeting he was awake. The first call he did not answer so I called back. The second time he answered and since we had never spoken before I introduced myself and asked him what his problem was with me. We ended up staying on the phone for quite some time; well over an hour. And even though we talked about a bunch of things surrounding Mikes case I dont believe I ever found out why he was calling me an asshole on twitter. And I didnt really care. All I knew was that he had either injected himself into the case at that point or was a suspect for the call. At that point in time I am not really sure if it was both of those things or just one. However, I had been previously briefed on Ron and was told that he did not seem mentally stable and rarely made sense. The people that had briefed me on him were Mandy and Patterico and their judgement was always sound. Plus from what I had seen online from Ron justified their opinion

The Crazy.

Ron claims that during our first call he was receiving text messages from a bunch of different numbers. Later he told me the text of the messages were something to the effect of [sic] “This nun is on fire.” To this day he still thinks that I was able to, while driving, use ten or more phones to send text messages about nuns being on fire all while being on the phone with him. Even in our last conversation, at the very end, he brought it up again at 4am. Even after telling him that I did not do it he still to this day doesnt believe me.

After our first two calls or so he ended up getting angry with me for asking about things that he said I already knew about. Ron follows the social interactions online between people very closely. I do not. When I came on board to help out in Stack and Patterico’s swatting I was strictly there to take technical data and analyze it. I was waiting for someone to slip up and forget to use a proxy, or be able to possibly pull out ip from the VOIP blacklists, or possibly even use other tactics that deal with technical data collecting and analyzation to possibly expose the SWATTING callers. However, this was unacceptable to Ron. And when I would ask about certain social interactions and conversations that he would mention in his rants, he would again fly off the handle. He would tell me I knew exactly what he was talking about and that I was liar, etc etc.

It might be helpful at this point for me to show you my email interactions to show you the details of the conversations, his change in mood, etc. They will help greatly to get a better picture of this. Let me know if you want them because I will have to find and organize all of them

Rons behaviour patterns are pretty predictable. If you allow him to call you up and bother you for hours on end he will be friendly to you and even support you on twitter. But once you question any of his ideas he flies off the handle, you become a suspect in his eyes, and the online harassment starts all over again. Most of his claims or supposition hardly ever make sense and he seems to just throw anything against the wall to see what sticks.

And now once again it seems that Ron is back to targetting me. He sent a tweet tonight alerting Twitter users to be wary if they ever call me or Tommy Christopher, or Caleb Howe because you may hear someone mimicking your voice in the background.

https://twitter.com/ronbryn/status/211265903382380545

And when I asked him what that means or what he was talking about he again claims I already know and then starts asking me if I have alibi’s for certain dates. Whenever there is pressure, as well as progress, in trying to determine who is behind this swatting Ron immediately gets nervous and starts running around trying to implicate people who have been investigating this since day one. Why cant he just answer a question about his own statements? Instead he goes off on a tirade of accusations and implications. Its incredibly suspicious considering I wasnt even talking to him. This is after months of not talking to him (I have my farewell Ron emails as well that explains why I cut him off-again its the same crap) But in the above link you can see the deranged paranoia. I dont ever remember saying the thing about “a bar” in our conversation. Nor do I remember that echo that heis talking about. Again, this is like the “nuns on fire” text message thing. (which he mentions again in that convo) No one knows if it really happened. And I have no reason to lie to Ron. If he heard an echo on my phone so what? I hear echoes all the time when talking to people. I dont immediately become paranoid about it because I understand how a compact microphone on a cell phone works and how it picks up everything.

The real question here is why is Ron so paranoid about things that are irrelevant? Is he really unstable or is he involved in the whole damn thing and is rightfully paranoid about certain small details? It has to be one of the two. Nothing else explains his behaviour

I have never in my life ever dealt with anyone like Ron. While he claims to be a journalist and an investigator he couldnt be any farther from those things. He is petulant dishonest creep with absolutely no interpersonal skills. His lack of ability to communicate with people on a normal level makes him not only an outcast but a pure waste of time to deal with and possibly a liability to anyone that chooses to interact with him. He has provided nothing in the investigation to anyone’s swatting and harassment cases other than being divisive, nasty, rude, and dishonest. He wants so bad for at least one of his whacky theories to be correct that when they dont prove to be anything more than a loony idea he reacts like the manchild he is and throws a tantrum and attacks people.

Let me know if you want the emails. They address the last couple of crazy calls. Surprisingly enough he doesnt even really deny that he was being a total asshole to me for no reason.

But again just look at that convo from tonight. I was actually going to give him another chance to act like a normal person. Yet he couldnt do it. Once again the pressure is on to arrest and prosecute the people behind the swatting and Ron is off the wall insane. Why? He should be ecstatic and trying to work with people. I know when I get close to wrapping up an investigation I am answering everyones questions with excitement. Ron instead reacts with paranoia askingme if I have alaibis for the dates of the calls all because I asked him what he was talking about regarding an echo he heard on the phone with me. I have always had the feeling that Ron is that guy that steals your wallet and then helps you look for it. I have always believed that he knows more than he ever lets on, or heis actually involved. Because there is no reason for him to turn psycho every time it looks like prosecution is eminent.

-Doug

Let me know if that is enough or if you need something more specific. Sorry for the rant, Im jsut sick of dealing with Ron. None of us were ever this nuts or disrepectful to each otehr while dealing with this