Thread by @EoinLenihan

🚨Massive and disgraceful breaking news in the @DougMakey case. 🚨

Disgraced Antifa journalist Luke O'Brien has just interfered with an expert witness in the case which has led to a request for a delay from Makey's team.

A short thread....🧵

Luke O'Brien who was fired from HuffPo last year has harassed the defence's leading expert witness causing him to withdraw as a witness.

O'Brien attempted to portray the expert witness - Hawley - as an extremist based on emails that O'Brien presented to him. O'Brien pressured the witness by presenting him with the apparently hacked emails and asking if his employers knew about his testimony.

O'Brien - who is no longer a journalist - is supposedly writing an article for the SPLC where his long-time friend and fellow harasser Michael Hayden works. Both of these have a long history of harassing employers of people who call out their unethical and stalking behavior...

In 2019 I wrote an article - based on now peer reviewed research - which showed that O'Brien and Hayden are Antifa journalists...quillette.com/2019/05/29/its…

In response both Hayden and O'Brien contacted several of my employers - just as O'Brien did here - and made false statements to try and paint me as an extremist - again - just as O'Brien is doing here with an expert witness. thepostmillennial.com/how-they-ruin-…

Hayden and O'Brien recently ran a hit piece on me when my Antifa research was published in a respected Springer Peer Reviewed Data Science journal. They lied about how O'Brien had been locked out of his Twitter for several months for harassing me. open.substack.com/pub/dreoinleni…

O'Brien has used the 'I'm writing a story about you, does your employer know?' threat that he used here on Mackey's expert witness against me too. It's a dirty tactic. He believes the threat of being named in a public paper would scare me off of my research.

And most importantly, O'Brien uses hacked and faked materials to intimidate people who he sees as a threat or enemy. He got his most recent position - at the soon to be shut down Shorenstein Centre - after impressing the boss, Joan Donovan, by introducing her to a hacker.

Not only should O'Brien be the journalistic pariah he is but he should be facing harassment, hacking & now witness tampering charges. He survives because of his family DNC connections & because Antifa journo friends like Hayden are willing to lend SPLC credentials when needed.

Thanks to @LiaS814 for bringing the law and crime article to my attention.

I wrote the wrong @ in my first tweet. @DougMackeyCase is the correct @ to follow this case.