Still no response. And, I don't see any enthusiastic efforts from others
currently on CP to contact any other journalists or previous CP people to help
uncover this mystery. Will this become embarrassing? Yes.
Jim Bell
On Monday, November 18, 2019, 10:42:26 AM PST, jim bell
<[email protected]> wrote:
Well, I sent out an email to Declan McCullagh, [email protected], and so far
no reply. At least openly, there would not appear to be any reason he should
resist the idea of returning and helping us figure out what happened with the
faked 1995 archive. He apparently continues to write news articles,
https://muckrack.com/declan-mccullagh/articles , and at least from their titles
they sound well-meaning. This would certainly amount to a big story, and he
certainly can't claim the subject isn't interesting given the history of his
articles.
However, his position stated to me in about March 2002 (about the time I was
transferred to USP Atwater California; I had been at USP Lompoc for a few
months before that) was initially that he was going to visit (because he was
attending an event somewhere in the Bay area, as I recall), but after that he
didn't bother to show up and it wasn't the reason he claimed: 'something came
up': In fact, he didn't even fill out and return a (necessary) Visitor's
application, which would have been automatically approved. So, evidently,
Declan had decided weeks before that he had no intention of visiting me:
Without that form and routine approval, he would not have been allowed to
visit. He knew that.
So, I request that as many people as possible contact him and make this request
directly. He may feel uncomfortable, but he has a degree of responsibility, at
least as a participant in the Cypherpunks list in 1995-96 and probably beyond,
and as a witness, and as a person who no doubt reported the government's line
during 1997-2002, but didn't bother to do anything to publicize my side of the
story. And in the end, I had done probably 12 more years in prison BECAUSE my
story hadn't been told.
Declan should contact the people involved with the Cypherpunks archives, or
keeping of the data. I am confident that it wouldn't take long to figure out
what happened.
Jim Bell
