[Cboldt]

That little voice in one ear says to do the right thing, to not fall to their level. But in my other ear something tells me let's make the light so unbearable that the cockroach will confess or out the one who did it.

Ohh .. I'll take the evil side of that for 100, Alex. The sentiment I was trying to express was that FReepers might be incorrecty picking on Hays as the author of the lie (hey, we all make mistakes), but in the end, that error should not be significant. At worst, it shows inattention to detail.

I advocate putting heat on all of them, knowing that the heat is incorrectly placed on all but one.

The nit I am picking is that letters to AP and Hays would be more powerful if rooted in fact. E.g. "One of your reporters authored a lie" can't be refuted -- but "Hays authored a lie" might be.

[JoJo Gunn]

I agree, which is why I still want confirmation. In the meantime I'm going to fire off a couple of letters to the AP later today.