"Very easily, he probably posted them from work...which were traced, very easily to his computer"
That's rather silly. All they would know is which websites he visited. The only way they could link what he posted is to have what is contained at this end. No, they found him through Richard Viguerie:
http://www.conservativehq.com/index.php?p=13#postcomment
October 24 was a Sunday, I posted that from my home computer.
Whatever, just be careful - because these guys are searching!
Wrong, they would know which PAGE he was on, and then mathcing the TIME and the PAGE to the POST and bingo....you have the USERNAME matched with the persons computer. Also, every PAGE that he went to INCLUDING his own HOME PAGE and LOG IN page would leaves his online trace back to his or the main SERVER. Dont sit here and act as if it cant be traced back to him...its very VERY easily done. Ask any IT guy/dweeb out there
Actually - if someone with the technical skill and necessary access to the network (an "at work" IT staff member) had decided in advance to trace activity for the "at work" network to FR it would be VERY EASY to determine exactly what had been posted and who had posted it. I believe that activity would be quite illegal unless it was done at the direction of a manager with sufficient authority (an illegal wire tap) but it would be rather easy from a technical perspective.