I assure you that I did a search. When are we all going to just agree that the FR search feature doesn’t work 95% of the time?
It doesn't matter. The post mavens on Free Republic get some kind of a weird salacious pleasure out of seeking and finding duplicate posts and putting in nya-nya-nya gotcha entry in the alleged offender's post.
Sorry, I gotta disagree. Search works very well, assuming you know how to use it properly:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?s=contractors+silenced&ok=Search&q=quick&m=all&o=time&