Who gives a crap what some anonymous poster says on the web unless it's confiurmabble? Otherwise, it nothing more than watercooler gossip and should be treated as such. This is a BAD trend
Normally it wouldn't make any difference. But after reading all the threads, it appears to me (and I can only go by appearances) that MD4BUSH is either a left-wing reporter or a Democrat operator who signed up on false pretences and tried to egg other freepers on to say indiscrete things.
Evidently he persuaded NCPAC (Steffen) to send him some private freepmails and enough information to establish his identity. He then turned that identity and some unspecified "email" mentioned by the Washington Post, probably a freepmail or freepmails, over to the Post.
The Post then used this information to initiate a propaganda campaign against Governor Erlich.
That's an entirely different kettle of fish from posting comments on the internet.