[conservative in nyc]

As far as I know, the Washington Post didn't reprint any of the FReepmail "in toto". They summarized and excerpted.

According to the time stamps, the FReepmail was posted on Free Republic by MD4BUSH about 30 minutes before the WaPo article was posted here by Crush Kerry (which is not necessarily 30 minutes before the WaPo article was posted on its website). It was first without any emphasis, and twice later underlining the parts that I'd characterize as most harmful to NCPAC.

Them's the facts. Draw whatever conclusion you wish. I'm waiting for more evidence before coming to one.

[advance_copy]

I think I've found a time stamp for the original Compost article quoting NCPAC's FReepmail. Yahoo puts a time stamp on news articles and it shows up here:

http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?ei=UTF-8&p=ehrlich&pstart=1&b=34

Note that the story (#34) shows a time stamp of 8:05pm from 2/8/05. I'm pretty sure that's eastern time. But even if it is pacific time, that's 11:05pm (too early for them to have used MD4's public post of NCPAC's e-mail).