"Most of it is copied from Williams. I read his book last yr, and most of his info was open-source, some was not."
If he sourced his info in his book, then he is in the clear and it is Farrah's fault for not doing so in his newsletter. If I tell you I ate a tuna sandwich for lunch, who cares if I can prove it or not? If I tell you that a nuclear weapon was nearly smuggled into the US years before 9/11, then I'd better be able to back something like that up. It doesn't matter if you are CBS News or an online subscription-only newsletter. If you start talking nukes, you have to have solid gold sources or evidence (not vague unnamed "officials")to back up what you are saying or people will write you off as a nut, as it seems most of the posters on that other thread did.
If the real threat gets over-hyped, then it gets discredited and few take it seriously until it is too late.