The Washington Post is reporting now that their reporter did come in possesion of printed copies of the message exchanges last fall. To check to see if they were authentic, the reporter obtained the info required to view the private chat room by an intermediary acting on behalf of MD4Bush last January.
The Washington Post says their reporter used that information to verify that the messages from the chat room were authentic
http://wbal.com/stories/templates/news.asp?articleid=36636
Who was the intermediary who gave the WaPo reporter the password to the MD4Bush account? Why would an intermediary be necessary?