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I know I'm really out of it because I never heard of Bev Harris or BBV until weeks after the election. Am I reading correctly that Bev Harris was associated with the website Talion.com, which you suspect is (or was) part of the opposition research arm of the DNC? If Harris was part of Talion, is she some rogue agent who saw the possibilities of fleecing the Dummies because of Talion's set-up and went off on her own, or is this some semi-official plan by the DNC to shake down their own constituents post-election?

I've found no conclusive link between talion.com (Bev Harris' old website) and the Democrats. It's clear that she and her website were involved in a November 2000 attempt to smear President Bush with the Bill Burkett, Bush-was-AWOL charges. But despite an extensive Internet search, I couldn't find any proof Bev Harris was on the DNC (or Gore's) payroll back then. But I doubt it was a coincidence that when those charges were raised, 3 Democrat Senators just happened to decide to attack President Bush's national guard record.

What's clear from my research is that Bev Harris is (literally) a publicity hound. Talion.com billed itself as "red dog publicists". Its job was to get its clients (which also included fringe authors) media attention.

It's also clear that Bev Harris used the "woe is me--my website was hacked" ploy to gain attention for her "cause" in 2000. She tried to pull the same stunt again this year.

Us FReepers were on to her long before the DUmmies got hoodwinked.