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WOULD YOU WANT THIS PSYCHO
BRENDA NEGRI SCREENING
YOUR BAGGAGE AT LA X AIRPORT ?
 
Barbara Hartwell   
Legal Defense and Research Fund
PO Box 832
Woodstock NY 12498
Website:
www.barbarahartwell.com

IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE: THE TRUTH ABOUT BRENDA NEGRI

A CASE STUDY IN FRAUD, INSANITY AND CRIMINAL HARASSMENT


Brenda Negri is a psychopath engaged in criminal
harassment of legitimate government whistleblowers;
survivors of black operations; and ex-military and
intelligence personnel.

Brenda Negri is a scamster who hides behind many screen
names and aliases to do her dirty work, writing and
posting libelous material on various message boards on
the World Wide Web. "Ranger Rick" is the name most
commonly used by Negri, dating back to at least
September 2001. Negri uses various other handles such as:
John Doe; The Hateful Nerd; Flynnsghost; Agent Scully;
Captain Blood and others too numerous to mention.
She is the architect of a website she calls The
Fifth Horseman, yet another
alias used by Negri.

Negri has NEVER used her real name, when posting her
libelous disinformation --despite the fact that she was
exposed as a phony, a pathological liar and a fraud back
in December 2001, by myself and other legitimate
whistleblowers whom she has targeted for criminal
harassment and libel.

Several of us, all ex-military; intelligence and law
enforcement, have conducted an intensive investigation
of Brenda Negri, aided by licensed private
investigators. We have now collected all the information
and evidence we need to FULLY EXPOSE Negri and put this
woman out of business, once and for all. HARD irrefutable
evidence, presented here
for the first time in a comprehensive report.

Documented evidence as well as the testimony of reliable
witnesses and trustworthy sources will clearly show that
Brenda Negri has engaged in the following criminal
violations:

Impersonating Federal Officers, fabricating, carrying and
flashing false I.D.

Carrying an unregistered weapon without a permit
(dangerous, because she does NOT know how to use a gun,
as she admitted to at least one witness involved in
our investigation).

Stew Webb was one witness to whom Negri flashed a bogus
Los Angeles County Sheriff Dep't badge as well as an FBI
shield. She also showed Webb the unregistered handgun
which she was carrying in the glove box of her car.

Engaging in criminal harassment and stalking by phone,
e-mail and in person.

In February 2002, Negri was fired for lying to her former
employer, Delia Swan, of Swan Legal Services in Los
Angeles; for using the office computer without her
employer's knowledge or consent to run Internet scams;
to write and post libelous material; and to engage in
criminal harassment of legitimate government
whistleblowers.

Brenda Negri is also a thief. Delia Swan told us that
Negri engaged in theft of services: unauthorized use of
the office's metered mail system and office telephone
lines and that she ran up THOUSANDS of dollars in phone
bills at Swan Legal Services while perpetrating her
criminal harassment.

Lying to her current employers (Federal Agents from TSA)
on her application form to land a government job,
falsifying personal records and employment history.
Negri also failed to report her history of mental
illness and having been placed in a psychiatric
facility by family members due to her delusional and
bizarre behavior.

BRENDA NEGRI: BAGGAGE SCREENER FOR TSA AT LAX

Brenda Negri is currently employed at the Transportation
Security Administration, in a low level, menial job as a
baggage screener. Meanwhile, Negri continues her criminal
harassment of myself and others, writing and posting
libelous misinformation and STILL telling outrageous lies,
variously claiming to be an "undercover Fed" or a "mole"
inside the Department of Homeland Security, "ratting out";
"snitching"; and
"spooking on" (in Negri's own words) her employers.

Here, as evidence, is a post from Negri's yahoo group,
"Flynnsghost"

(Negri recently changed the format of her yahoo group so
that it is now for MEMBERS ONLY, so it cannot be
accessed by the general public. However, I have collected
all the posts containing libelous statements about myself
and others whom Negri has targeted, going back to
February 2, 2003.)

Negri's comments are in quotes, preceded by her name.
My comments follow in brackets.
---------------------------------------------------------
Written by Brenda Negri:

"We suddenly seem to have police escorts and undercover
hovering around watching our back..."

[ Negri exhibits classic symptoms of being delusional
and clinically paranoid, believing she is being followed
and watched, either by her 'enemies' or by those she
imagines would want to 'protect' her. But in reality
there would be no reason whatsoever for anyone working
"undercover" --good guys or bad-- to take ANY notice
of Brenda Negri. The very thought is laughable to those
of us who have actually been INVOLVED in covert
operations or who have actually been targeted for such
surveillance. Negri is a nobody who has never been
involved in anything remotely resembling these operations.
Nobody would waste their time or money targeting the
inconsequential Brenda Negri.]

Negri:

"A national mag does a big hit piece on our agency and
there we be, front and center, The Fifth Horseman, in
living color, quotes and all, snitching them off...the
artful timing of it putting a big
bucket of water on Babs' bogus threats and Webb's
frivolous
lawsuit...and making their handlers sweat nails...and
back off..."

[ Negri evidently imagines that she will be 'protected'
from criminal prosecution simply by having her name and
picture in a magazine in connection with her employment
in a low-level government job. As for the so-called
"handlers" of myself and Stew Webb --there are no such
handlers. Negri also imagines that she inspires fear
and that she has the power to intimidate intelligence/law
enforcement personnel. Again, a ludicrous thought spawned
by Negri's delusions of grandeur.]

Negri:

"As Blabs Hartwell disintegrates into an altered state of
insanity with hot air threats about lawsuits that will
never happen as usual..."

[ As a function of her psychopathology, Negri routinely
projects her OWN fears; mental state; insanity and
character flaws upon others. Thus the FALSE accusations
and allegations about myself and others she has targeted
for harassment.]

Negri:

"Al Martin needs another drink to calm his nerves when
Tom Ridge does not return his phone calls..."

[ Ex-ONI and Iran Contra Whistleblower Al Martin is one
of Negri's primary targets. Negri was sexually harassing
Martin, as she has done to countless other men, and when
he rejected her advances in disgust, she went on a
rampage and has been libeling and harassing him ever
since. ]

Negri:

"Ed Schooling is trying to forget he ever met Mr. Lithium,
Stew Webb...while Wayne Schooling tries to forget he's
related to Ed..."

[Negri does not KNOW Ed Schooling, nor his brother Wayne.
Negri targeted Schooling simply because he is a friend
and professional colleague of mine; and because another
malicious liar, nutcase, and groupie, a woman named
Shirley Anderson of North Dakota, also involved in
harassment of whistleblowers, including Schooling and
myself, furnished Negri with false information. In fact,
Anderson had been sexually harassing both Stew Webb and
Ed Schooling, with a similar M.O. to that of Negri.

Negri only met Stew Webb on ONE occasion, when she drove
to Las Vegas from L.A. to pester Stew, claiming she was
on a "mole hunt" and that she had "valuable information"
about Ted Gunderson (another man she does NOT know and
had never met. Ted is a former colleague of myself and
Stew Webb, whom we have both broken off association with).
The so-called 'information" about Gunderson would have
been easily obtainable by anyone with a computer and
access to the Internet. Negri had no information that
was not already widely known, coming from such
publications as The Last Circle, written by journalist
Cheri Seymour. Negri also claimed to have incriminating
information about FBI agent Mike Foster, another man
Negri had a fixation on and who rejected her sexual
advances.

Negri also tried a seduction act on Stew Webb, and when
her advances were rejected she began to libel and harass
Webb, just as she had done to Martin and Foster. As per
the testimony of many witnesses, Negri desperately seeks
attention and approval from male authority figures --
especially former or current military, law enforcement
and intelligence operatives-- but every man I know of
that Negri has targeted has told me the same thing:
They consider Negri unattractive, even repulsive, both
in physical appearance and personality. After all, what
decent, self-respecting man could possibly enjoy being
stalked and sexually harassed by an unattractive, \
delusional nutcase and law enforcement/ intelligence
groupie? ]

Negri:

"Bab's Wackenhut Lawyer goes on permanent vacation now
that her cover
has been blown to hell..."

[ Here again we have one of Negri's outrageous lies:
That Barbara Hartwell has a lawyer connected to Wackenhut.
In fact, I am not represented by ANY attorney, much less
one in league with Wackenhut. I refuted this lie long ago
with hard evidence and facts, and yet Negri continues to
make these false allegations, libeling myself and my
close friend, attorney Marcy Gordon of New York City.
These lies have done serious damage to my professional
reputation, as it so happened that others in collusion
with Negri, such as Larry Lawson, who also wish to
discredit me, have begun repeating the same lie
(the ONLY source of which is Negri) about the Wackenhut
connection. Negri also promotes many other lies about me,
such as that I am a "CIA plant"; a "CIA goon"; "former
CIA prostitute"; that I receive "funding from Langley"
for "rogue black ops"....and on and on in this vein.
In truth, I am NONE of these things, nor ever was.
And the last "funding" I ever received from Langley
was over ten (10) years ago, when I was still involved
in their black operations. Yet Negri's vicious lies
about me have created a world of trouble; compromised
my professional reputation and security; even endangered
my life.]

Negri:

"Rayelan waits for Planet X to save her lying ass from
being condemned
to hell and damnation for the evil she has perpetuated
through RMN..."

[Rayelan Allan, ex-wife of CIA operative Gunther
Russbacher; investigative journalist and editor of
Rumor Mill News, is also one of Negri's primary targets
for libel and criminal harassment. In fact, Negri first
set up the flynnsghost yahoo group, which she called the
"Anti-Rumor Mill News Site" for the SPECIFIC purpose of
libeling Rayelan, myself and others who are news agents
for RM News.]

Negri:

"Tim White cuts loose with the names, Larry Lawson tells
Hartwell to go to hell and burn, and the shakedown begins..
.as black ops goons panic...muster the troops...and try
to
fend us off...to little avail..."

[ Tim White is a predicate felon; drug abuser;
transvestite; paranoid and delusional; collector of child
pornography, in collusion with Negri and others to
harass and libel me and my colleagues. For a
comprehensive report on Tim White see this article:

A True (But Stranger-Than-Fiction) Crime Case
The Cross-dressing Conspiracy Theorist
www.mybizz.net/~blackangel/articles/babs/atruecrimecase.htm

Lawson is another of Negri's unscrupulous cohorts, also
engaged in libeling and harassing gov't whistleblowers.
Lawson runs his own yahoo group site, similar to that
of Negri, called Larry Lawson News.]

Negri:

"And the coded message for inside folk with the inside
dope: the
tenacious and ever-true Torrid T Men get the Thumbs Up/Go
G Men Go Award..."

[ Negri's delusions, once again, of "coded messages";
of being an "insider" and having covert dealings with
"G-men".]

Negri:

"Meanwhile, US? Still moled inside the DHS...spooking
on and ratting out the cretin
who are up to no good..."

[Here, Negri claims to be a "mole" and "spook". Instead
of naming TSA, where she ACTUALLY works as a lowly baggage
screener at LAX Airport, she cites the Department of
Homeland Security, which sounds more IMPORTANT and
OFFICIAL, under the delusion that she could actually
impress people with her 'credentials'. The irony and the
unmitigated stupidity of Negri's approach is that NOBODY
actually working "undercover" would brag about it on a
public mesage board !]
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Note that Negri always uses the plural pronouns "we" and
"us". She does this in every commentary she writes.
Perhaps in addition to her other forms of psychopathology,
Negri has multiple personality disorder ? She uses many
aliases; often appears to be talking to herself; and
NEVER uses her real name. But the silly and peculiar
writing style, as well as the same malicious lies about
her targets, give her away every time.

Now, let's take a look at some excerpts from the very
article from the "national mag" Negri references in her
post.
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Grounded: Brenda Negri became an airport screener to
serve her country—but says without bargaining rights,
Laureen Lazarovici
For Brenda Negri, becoming an airport screener in the
months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was
the culmination of her deeply felt need to serve her
country.

“It meant so much for me to work for the government,”
says Negri, an airport screener at Los Angeles
International Airport (LAX). “I cried when I got sworn
in.”
Because many of her family members served in the military,
working for a federal law enforcement agency “epitomized
the ultimate in terms of professionalism and integrity.”
 

“I'm answering the call to civic service and doing
something to combat terrorism,” says Negri. But without
a voice on the job, airport screeners are powerless to
improve TSA or public safety. “Now we're propping up a
house of cards,” she says. “That's been the hardest thing
for me.”
----------------------------------------------------

Well, if Negri REALLY wants to "serve her country" and to
"combat terrorism"; why in hell doesn't she start by
ceasing her OWN CRIMINAL HARASSMENT AND THREATS against
legitimate whistleblowers and survivors of government
black operations ?

Why does she NOT defend the Constitution, instead of
working for an agency which by its very nature, ushered
in under the treasonous and UNCONSTITUTIONAL Patriot Act,
serves NOT the country and its citizens, but ONLY the
Powers-that-Be, headed by tyrant George W. Bush. I can
tell you why: Brenda Negri is NOT a patriot, far from it.
Brenda Negri is only a pathetic wannabe, a law
enforcement and inyelligence groupie --desperate for ANY
government job that would hire her. Since she has been
rejected by every other government agency she has applied
to; since she has no education; no training and clearly
a low intelligence quotient coupled with mental
instability, she would be a liability, instead of an
asset.

So, Negri claims she wants to "combat terrorism" ?

Negri has called me a "terrorist" on more than one
occasion in her public commentaries, "Barbara Hartwell
and her Terrorist Connections".... as well as making
blatant comments about threats to my life, such as that
"Hartwell could be whacked by a Rusky with a silencer".
Sounds like a terrorist threat to me.......

Negri has also made threats to both Stew Webb and
Al Martin, by phone and in her public commentaries.

As far as "professionalism" goes, Negri lacks any
semblance of it. She has no formal education; no
professional training whatsover in ANY field. Remember
folks, the only job she could get working for the
government was as a BAGGAGE SCREENER ! And since the
newly created TSA was desperate to fill the slots,
they hired just about ANY Joe or Jane who came down
the pike. In fact, it was recently exposed in the
mainstream press that the TSA has a serious problem on
their hands for FAILING to do adequate background checks
on their baggage screeners, as many of them (roughly 700
at last count) were later found to have criminal records!
 
Here are Negri's comments, from Flynnsghost, about the
fact that baggage screeners with criminal records had been
allowed to slip through the shoddy security and
background checks at TSA.
-----------------------------------------------------

Brenda Negri wrote:

"Hey, so what's a few felons here and there, anyhow?
I mean, so they
let a bomb go through a checkpoint or part of a gun get
on a plane, heeeey! It's LA!

Sheesh....

And the inevitable question arises: Did WE have something
to do with
this leak? YOU BETTER BELEIVE IT."
---------------------------------------------------------

So now, here is Brenda Negri, ADVOCATING allowing bombs
and guns to go through the security checks. Unbelievable!

Not only that, but Negri actually tries to TAKE CREDIT for
the "leak" ! Again, unbelievable !

Perhaps most unbelievable of all, Negri is ONE of the
VERY individuals who LIED on her application to get the
job ! LIED about her history of mental illness. LIED
about her criminal activities. LIED about her employment
history.

BRENDA NEGRI: A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR. A THIEF. And worst of
all , A DELUSIONAL NUTCASE WHO CLAIMS TO BE A "MOLE"
AND "SPOOK" inside the Department of Homeland Security.

Let me ask you something.... Would you want this psycho
screening YOUR baggage ?

And if engaging in criminal harassment; stalking; making
threats and telling outrageous lies, is Negri's idea of
"INTEGRITY", then I think Brenda Negri needs to do some
serious soul searching. And while she's at it, it would
behoove her to seek professional counseling for her mental
illness.
Brenda Negri is a psychotic, malicious woman who may
actually, in her delusional fantasies, BELIEVE herself
to be the "under cover Fed"; Ace G-man; "spook" or "mole"
as she boasts of in the many commentaries she has written
and posted. But what should by now be clear is that Negri
is a potential menace to ANY employer, especially a
government agency, no matter how lowly a position she
holds.

INVESTIGATION OF BRENDA NEGRI BY TSA ?

In early April 2003, several of us being criminally
harassed by Negri, including myself; Federal Whistleblower
Stew Webb; and retired LAPD officer Ed Schooling tracked
Negri down and received confirmation from a TSA official,
Mr. Paul Lipscomb, Assistant Federal Security Director at
LAX Airport, that Negri is in fact working as a baggage
screener for T.S.A., the newly created Federal agency
under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security.

All of us filed formal complaints with TSA by telephone,
furnishing information about Negri's unscrupulous and
criminal activities and her mental illness, as well as
outlining the damages done to each of us by Negri's
continuing inteference; criminal harassment; libel and
slander. We also provided evidence of Negri's illegal
activities from archives of posts written and disseminated
by Negri on various Internet message boards.

We requested that a formal investigation be conducted
by the T.S.A. and advised them that we would also be
contacting other Federal and state agencies in regard
to Brenda Negri.

Following are excerpts from my own letter to TSA official
Paul Lipscomb.

Mr. Paul Lipscomb
Assistant Federal Security Director
LAX Airport

Dear Mr. Lipscomb:

Please consider this letter as a written formal complaint
against Brenda M. Negri for criminal harassment.
As confirmed by you in our phone conversations of April 4,
2003. Negri is currently employed at LAX Airport as a
baggage screener for TSA.

During two (2) phone conversations, to which a Mr.
Jonathan Fleming was also privy via speakerphone,
I gave you my testimony and a brief overview of my
dealings with Brenda Negri. I will repeat some of that
here, for the record and will provide additional details.

I understand that you also spoke with other witnesses,
including Stew Webb and retired LAPD officer Ed Schooling,
also targeted by Negri for criminal harassment; libel
and slander.

Negri first approached me in October 2001, claiming to
admire my work as an investigative journalist and my
political activism as a whistleblower out of CIA covert
operations. At that time Negri was impersonating a male
FBI agent, using the name "Ranger Rick". Negri was
writing and posting material on various message boards
under this pseudonym, as well as on her own website The
Fifth Horseman.

I explained to Negri when she first approached me in
October 2001 that I refused to have dealings with people
who presented themselves only using pseudonyms, aliases
or screen names. I wanted to know her real name;
her credentials and bona fides, if any, before I would
agree to enter into any correspondence with her.

At that time, Negri gave me the following information
about herself:

BRENDA NEGRI'S "BONA FIDES"

She is a female civilian, NOT a male FBI agent.

Her real name is Brenda Negri.

D.O.B. December 13, 1955

She worked as a secretary in Los Angeles, CA at Swan
Legal Services.

Employer's name: Attorney Delia Swan

She earned a salary of $21,000 a year.

She was divorced, with a fifteen year old son, who lives
with his father, as the child refused to live with Negri.
[ It was later confirmed by Negri's ex-husband that Negri
lost custody of the child, due to her mental illness and
incarceration in a psychiatric facility]

Negri said that she had taken up long-term residence in a
"crack hotel" in San Pedro, CA, after she had been evicted
from another apartment in connection with a criminal
charge.

That she had no formal education; no college degree;
no training or background in law enforcement or
intelligence work.

She was a civilian woman and NOT the "Ace G-man"
called Ranger Rick, as she claimed and promoted herself
in her writings.

When I asked Negri why she was impersonating a male
Federal Officer, she told me that people would not take
her seriously or respect her if they found out she was
just a "nobody"; a civilian woman with no education and
no training in law enforcement or intelligence work. So
she was lying in an attempt to gain respect and approval
from legitimate professionals and others currently or
formerly in government service.

It soon became clear to me as well as to others whom she
targeted for this Internet scam that Negri was what I can
only call a "wannabe" and law enforcement groupie.

She was in posession of NO original or legitimate
information, nor first hand knowledge of intelligence
operations. The ONLY information she had was that which
anyone with a computer and some time on her hands could
pick up from perusing various websites, such as my own
or others whose editors were former intelligence or
law-enforcement personnel or professional investigators.
Maybe she was just reading spy novels...it's anyone's
guess where she picked up these tidbits which she claimed
to be "inside information"; and which she posted on her
website.

She talked about subjects of which she clearly knows
nothing; such as "tradecraft"; "PsyOps"; "black operations"
"mole hunts"; etc. And worse, continually boasted of her
"insider expertise" in these matters. Any truthful
information she managed to get her hands on was merely
scavenged from people such as myself, none of which came
from firsthand knowlege or experience on Negri's part.

She soon started dropping my name on her website along
with other names of high-profile/well-known individuals
who were Federal Whistleblowers; survivors of covert
intelligence operations; ex-miliary and intelligence
personnel; investigative journalists; including Al Martin;
Stew Webb; Mike Ruppert; Rayelan Allan.

Negri soon began to make numerous harassing phone calls
to me at my home, at all hours of the day and night,
sometimes as many as 7 or 8 calls a day. I had made the
mistake of giving a small amount of confidential
information to Negri, during the period of roughly two
(2) months that I stayed in contact with her. Negri
posed as a sympathetic "supporter" of me and my work
and claimed she wanted to "help" me. She used the same
M.O. with others. Negri used flattery and feigned
sympathy to conceal her lies and duplicity and her
relentless attempts to pick my brain and scavenge
information about myself and others and our involvement
in intelligence operations.

But as I quickly learned, Negri had other, very
unscrupulous motives for befriending me, as well as
others. Negri began to violate my confidences by passing
on sensitive private information to third parties
(as was confirmed by witnesses) and it soon escalated
to the point that she was violating my privacy by
posting personal confidences as well as her wild
speculations (untrue) about me and some of my
professional colleagues on her website.

She wrote of subjects on which she was completely
uninformed; also making wild accusations against people
she had never met whom she claimed were "criminals";
"mob goons"; "Yakuza thugs"; "spooks"; etc. etc. Some
of the individuals Negri named were former or current
government officials, including FBI agent Mike Foster
and ex-FBI agent Richard Wade, the "Ranger Rick" whose
identity she had co-opted; whom she called the "Ace G-Man"
and for whom she clearly had an obsession, sexually and
otherwise.

As I and others observed, most of her writings sounded
like something from a comic strip or a badly written
dime store detective novel. There were no facts; no
credible sources; no evidence whatsoever to support
her outrageous allegations.

Negri also began to harass some of my professional
associates; using my name in order to ingratiate
herself with these individuals. Some of the e-mails
she sent to these people were of a threatening nature.
For example, she wrote to a friend of mine, ex-Special
Forces, that "Ranger Rick is on a mole hunt and NOBODY
survives a mole hunt by Ranger Rick" or "We eat goons
like Ted Gunderson for breakfast".....and other such
nonsense. The Special Forces man told her to get lost
and not to pester him again. And yet, Negri did serious
damage by telling malicious lies about me, slandering
me in attempts to make my friends and associates
suspicious of me.

Negri also engaged in sexual harassment of various men,
including Al Martin and Stew Webb. When they rejected
her blatant and shameless sexual advances, she turned
vicious and went on a rampage of libelous writings
about these men, publishing outrageous lies about them.
 
Here is just one example of a harassing and obscene
message written by Negri to Stew Webb, which she posted
on a PUBLIC message board, at American Patriot Friends
Network, under the pseudonym Ranger Rick, which clearly
shows the nature of this woman's psychopathology. This
has become known as the infamous "Penis Envy Post".

-------------------------------------------------------
"Listen Webb, it's obvious we're having a problem in the
communications department. In the future you've got to
tell me what it is you want right away, because otherwise
I've got no way of knowing that you don't want to see my
penis. I'm a pretty sharp guy/girl, but you can't expect
me to know how you're feeling all the time. Unless you
tell me, I'm going to just assume that you want to see
my penis.....I'm just a guy/girl with, if I do say so
myself, a very nice penis. Hefty. Thick.
Purpose-built....... A miracle of evolutionary design.
There's no way anyone could look at it and think it's
anything but a fine healthy penis. I know, because out
of the literally thousands of people who have seen it,
not one of them has mistaken it for anything but a
penis.....Showing my penis is my way of being part of
the crowd. More important, do you think I'd show my
penis so much if I wasn't a friendly person ? Of course
not..... I'm not just doing this for myself, though it
does give me the warm feeling that comes from sharing.
I do this because I want everyone to be my friend.
And there's no better way to make friends than by showing
people your penis. All this talking about my penis makes
me want to see it right now. Just to look at it, mind
you. I'm not going to touch it in any fashion that
doesn't relate to letting everyone see it better.
That would be sexual, and that's not the point.
The point is that everyone should get to see it.
Therefore, I have to raise it up a bit, or otherwise
manipulate it so that it's more visible, then that's
what I have to do. Of course, if you still don't want
to see it, I won't take it out at all, out of respect
for your weird neurosis."
----------------------------------------------------
It soon became clear to me and others that Negri was
delusional and was laboring under some very severe
psychopathology. Apparently, she may actually have
believed herself to be some kind of "spook"; "Fed";
"undercover agent"; or "rogue operative" as she
repeatedly referred to herself on her website and other
message boards.

By mid-December of 2001, I had reached the limits of my
tolerance for Negri and her amateur spy games; delusions;
insane rantings and invasions of my privacy. I issued a
warning for her to stop harassing my associates; to stop
interfering in my investigations; to stop violating my
privacy; to cease and desist from using my name on her
website, and from posting her wild speculations regarding
me.

In December 2001 I had no choice but to expose Brenda
Negri as a phony, a pathological liar and a provocateur.
I did this to protect myself from further damages to my
personal and professional reputation, and in the hope
that it would stop Negri's obsessive harassment of me
and others whom she had targeted. But despite the fact
that Negri was exposed --by myself and several others--
as a phony and liar, she continued her criminal
harassment with impunity.

Since that time, I have written a number of articles
exposing Negri, most of which are archived on my website.
The first was titled, A Morality Tale, and was written
in the style of political satire, although everything
written in the article about Negri is truthful. It also
contains some material written and posted by Negri on
her website, The Fifth Horseman, more examples of Negri's
outrageous lies and delusions of being an "undercover
Fed".
www.mybizz.net/~blackangel/articles/babs/moralitytale.htm

[I also included in this letter to Mr. Lipscomb the post
from Negri's yahoo group, flynnsghost, given above,
containing the libel against myself and others; more
threats and harassment; more lies; Negri now claiming
she is a "mole" inside the DHS.]

Ms. Negri has been engaging in criminal harassment of
myself as well as other individuals, since mid-December
of 2001. Negri has also written and posted literally
hundreds of libelous messages on various message boards
all over the World Wide Web.

In February 2002, I wrote another article about Brenda
Negri, which describes her illegal and unconscionable
activities at Swan Legal Services and how Negri's
employment was terminated, after formal complaints
were filed by myself, Al Martin and Stew Webb.

Just The Facts: A Report on Brenda Negri aka Ranger Rick:
www.mybizz.net/~blackangel/articles/babs/brendanegribh3.htm

THE FLYNNSGHOST YAHOO MESSAGE BOARD

On February 2, 2003, Brenda Negri put up her "news group"
named flynnsghost on yahoo. Here are some of the terms of service outlined by yahoo.
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MEMBER CONDUCT .
You agree to NOT to use the Service to:


Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available
any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar,
obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy,
hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;

"stalk" or otherwise harass another.
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Yet Negri has set up this message board at Yahoo for the
VERY PURPOSE of stalking; harassing; libeling; defaming;
invading privacy, etc. the VIOLATIONS outlined above.

Several individuals, including myself; Stew Webb; Ed Schooling; Rayelan Allan, have made numerous written complaints to Yahoo about Negri's violations of terms of service. And yet, nothing has been done to put this this unscrupulous and mentally deranged woman out of business. Negri continues her activities with impunity,
disregarding all warnings and directives issued by her
targets to cease and desist.

Mr. Lipscomb, it is my understanding, as per our phone conversations, the latest of which was today [April 7]
that you and your colleagues at TSA will take this formal
complaint seriously and conduct a full investigation of Brenda Negri and her illegal and unscrupulous activities.

As has been made clear from some of her recent postings, Negri is now claiming to be a "mole" inside the DHS. She states that her purpose for being there is to "rat out"
the personnel working for DHS.

Negri is still lying; still posturing as an "undercover Fed"; and/or "spook" --and worse, using this false
persona to attempt to gain credibility with the public
so that they might believe her outrageous, bizarre lies
and character defamation about myself and others as well
as about the employees of TSA and/or DHS.

For the record, I am a law-abiding citizen. I have no criminal record. I pursue all investigations that I
conduct under the color of the law. In my articles I
deal only with facts, evidence and the testimony of reliable witnesses.

My objective in writing this letter; in making this
formal complaint; is to see to it that Brenda Negri
is not allowed to continue her activities, many of which
--over a period of time between October 2001 and April
2003-- have caused serious damages to me personally, as well as certain family members; friends and professional associates, all of whom are willing to testify against Brenda Negri.

I also believe Brenda Negri to be a menace to society at large, and a danger to others, due to her delusional and psychotic behavior. I do not exaggerate when I say that
in my opinion, based on my observations and direct
dealings with her, Brenda Negri is criminally insane. My colleagues, all ex-military, law enforcement and intelligence personnel, as well as trained investigators, agree wholeheartedly.

I hope that after a thorough investigation has been conducted; and after you are satisfied that Brenda Negri has indeed been perpetrating the illegal and unscrupulous
actions I have outlined here, and as per the testimony of
other witnesses, you will find it prudent and necessary
to terminate her employment at TSA.

As for myself, I intend to file both civil and criminal complaints against Negri with all the appropriate Federal
and state agencies and courts of law.

If I may be of any further assistance to you in your investigation; or if you require additional information regarding Brenda Negri, you need only ask and I will be happy to provide what help I can.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Very Truly Yours,
Barbara Hartwell

cc: Jonathan Fleming
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After sending this letter (dated April 7, 2003) to Paul Lipscomb, I also furnished him and one of Negri's supervisors, Mr. Jonathan Fleming, with a large body of documented evidence of Negri's outrageous lies; libelous writings and her criminal harassment of myself and
others. I sent them many files from Negri's Flynnsghost
and other message boards by e-mail.

I waited about a month, but did not hear again from Mr. Lipscomb, although I sent several e-mails asking about
the progress of the investigation on Negri and Negri's status at TSA. Finally, I explained to Mr. Lipscomb by
e-mail that I believed enough time had passed (about 6 weeks); that I was not willing to wait any longer; and
that I needed some statement from him as to whether or
not Negri's employment would be terminated, based on the
evidence we had furnished; as well as the results of the
investigation by TSA into Negri's criminal activities.

Mr. Lipscomb then called me and told me that he was not
in the position to make a decision regarding Negri. He
said that according to her supervisors Negri had not
failed to perform her assigned duties. I explained that
I was disappointed that the TSA would allow a mentally unstable, malicious liar like Negri, who was engaged in criminal harassment to continue working at this government
job.

I also pointed out that it could be a public relations nightmare for the TSA if they failed to terminate Negri's
employment, after valid concerns had been expressed and hard evidence as to Negri's criminal harassment had been provided by the individuals she had targeted.

Mr. Lipscomb asked me, as a professional courtesy, to call
a Mr. Larry Fetters, the Acting Federal Security Director at LAX, and that Mr. Fetters would be able to give me a statement I could use in my report as to Brenda Negri and her status at TSA.
I called several times, but was unable to reach Mr. Fetters. Nor did I receive a return phone call after leaving a message with a secretary.

As for Mr. Lipscomb, he was always courteous, respectful and polite in his dealings with me. He seemed to take my complaints seriously. He also admitted to me, after I had read him one of Negri's ranting commentaries on the phone (the one given above in this report) about being "moled
up inside the DHS" that he did not think a sane person could write such material or make such outrageous claims.

And yet, as far as I know, Brenda Negri is STLL working
as a baggage screener at TSA, despite all the evidence
of her mental illness; despite her criminal background; despite her lies; despite the CRIMINAL HARASSMENT she continues to perpetrate TO THIS VERY DAY, against myself and others.

My last phone conversation with Mr. Lipscomb went
something like this: I thanked Mr. Lipscomb for his time
and attention, complimented him on his sincerity and professionalism; but reiterated my disappointment over TSA's faiure to act with due diligence on the evidence which had been provided about Brenda Negri. I told him
that in my opinion, Negri's employment with TSA should
have been terminated for cause; and that criminal
charges should also have been filed by TSA, at the very least for Negri's lying to Federal officials on her application form.

Mr. Lipscomb suggested to me that perhaps I and the
others who have sustained damages from Brenda Negri's criminal harassment and libel, could obtain satisfaction
by filing a civil complaint aginst Negri. I explained
that would be unlikely, as it seemed Negri, by virtue of her impecunious financial status, would be "judgment-proof".

But I did assure Mr. Lipscomb that indeed, I WOULD obtain
satisfaction. That it was my intent to see to it that Brenda Negri is prosecuted for her criminal violations,
to the fullest extent of the law. I told him it was a matter of honor; of my professional and personal reputation, badly damaged by this malicious liar, pestiferous nutcase and poseur. And that if the TSA
decided to allow Negri to continue her unscrupulous activities with impunity, while still employed by them,
it would no longer be my problem, but would become theirs.

Brenda Negri: From the loony bin to TSA, under the Department of Homeland Security. And I have to wonder:
Whom will the government hire next ?

--Barbara Hartwell
May 24, 2003

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Addendum:

I and my colleagues hope that anyone reading this report,
who has also been harassed; stalked; threatened; libeled
or slandered by Brenda Negri will add their voices;
address this outrage and file formal complaints against
her with TSA; the FAA; the L.A. County Sheriff Department;
the FBI; or the Department of Justice.

We also urge you to boycott LAX; to picket the airport
and to make it clear WHY.

This criminally insane woman needs to be STOPPED, post
haste.


Information on Brenda Negri

Brenda M. Negri
SSN: 549-23-8109

Cell phone #-:310-809-5881
Old cell ph #: 310-990-9096 (If needed for evidence)

Current home phone-310-521-8137
Home address:1219 S. Palos Verdes
San Pedro, CA 90731 (possibly a hotel))
(This San Pedro is inside the city of L.A.)

MUG SHOT OF BRENDA NEGRI: available
www.stewwebb.com


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