Memories of a Scientology warrior: Marty Rathbun's curious career as church rebel - 2017-03-14

Memories of a Scientology warrior: Marty Rathbun's curious career as church rebel March 14, 2017, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker

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Last week, we caused a bit of an uproar in the Scientology Watching community when we reported evidence that Mark "Marty" Rathbun gave a Church of Scientology attorney in Israel a copy of an email that independent Scientologist Dani Lemberger sent to Rathbun in 2013, and which contained private information about Lemberger's Scientology auditing.

The church used the contents of that email during a cross-examination of Lemberger in a court hearing last month, including the detail that Lemberger had said during auditing he thought about putting a bullet in the head of Scientology leader David Miscavige. Lemberger tells us the email's use had little effect on the trial, which ended with a settlement last week. But he wrote to Rathbun that it was upsetting to him that Rathbun would turn over an email to the church, and he received no reply. When we asked Rathbun about it, he denigrated us without answering our question or denying that he, in fact, gave Lemberger's private email to the church for its use in court. While some readers are still arguing whether the email proves that Rathbun is actually cooperating with Scientology under some kind of agreement with church leader David Miscavige, and whether or not that agreement involves some kind of secret financial settlement, there's one thing that seems pretty certain: Marty Rathbun's career as one of Miscavige's most effective critics is over.

At one time, "Moving On Up a Little Higher," the blog that Rathbun started in 2009 to criticize his former boss, was, with no exaggeration, a serious threat to Miscavige's very control of the church itself.

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