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Washington Post Now Claims "Authorized" to Access MD4BUSH Account
Saturday, November 5, 2005
| Kristinn
Posted on 11/05/2005 4:36:11 PM PST by kristinn
After yesterday's press conference in front of The Washington Post building in downtown Washington, D.C. that criticized The Post for violating their sourcing guidelines and for accessing a FreeRepublic.com account in possible violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, an editor for The Post is now claiming authorization to log-in to the account of MD4BUSH.
Earlier this week, Post Maryland editor R.B. Brenner made statements that reporter Matthew Mosk had logged in to MD4BUSH's account "two or three times" after being given the password by an "intermediary" in order to authenticate private messages sent between MD4BUSH and NCPAC on Free Republic.
Brenner has maintained that The Post does not know who MD4BUSH is.
Brenner is reported to have made the following statement to The Post for their story today about the press conference:
"As part of our reporting, we needed to verify that the chat room postings were authentic. We were authorized to view them, and it was appropriate to do so under the circumstances."
Link to Post article here.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: brownshirtsforkerry; hackshacking; howtostealanelection; leonarddownie; md4bush; mediabias; mosk; ncpac; smearcampaign; trolls; waronerror; whathappenedtooptout; wp; zogbyism
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To: ErnBatavia
I'd love nothing more, but in reality it's going nowhere, and we all know it.Sure it is. Or at least the Post thinks it could if Jim wants to pursue it.
Knowing that just makes me tingly all over. And you?
To: SeaBiscuit; All
Unlawful Access to Stored Communications 18 U.S.C. 2701. "§ 2701. Unlawful Access to Stored Communications
(a) Offense.--Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section whoever
(1) intentionally accesses without authorization a facility through which an electronic communication service is provided; or
(2) intentionally exceeds an authorization to access that facility; and thereby obtains, alters, or prevents authorized access to a wire or electronic communication while it is in electronic storage in such system shall be punished as provided in subsection (b) of this section. "
Registration and User Agreement
"User Account Confidentiality: User agrees to protect user's account and password and not to disclose account information to any third party."
The WP did exceed an authorization to access FR by using anothers password(Forbidden under the Users Agreement which govern the access of users) to access FRmails and did not make any attempt to determine the rules of access to FR or presumably they would not have improperly used anothers password. They flat did violate section 2b of 18 U.S.C. 2701 in that they did not view, or observe the rules if they did view them. If the reporter was unaware of 2b of 18 U.S.C. 2701 it won't help. A professional at a large newspaper should know or should have asked.
To: kristinn
I didn't notice did anyone ask JimRob or any Mods about these claims?
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posted on
11/05/2005 5:47:40 PM PST
by
infidel29
("We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." --Benjamin Franklin)
To: kristinn; Cicero; shutup_you_idiot
I am sure they are reading this at the Post, but maybe we should email it right to them? They might gain tips on how to run a newspaper.
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posted on
11/05/2005 5:47:54 PM PST
by
SteveMcKing
("I was born a Democrat. I expect I'll be a Democrat the day I leave this earth." -Zell Miller '04)
To: chiller
"Wouldn't it be sweet if JimRob cashed a check from WaPo for megamillions."
Would this be in time for the next freepathon?
105
posted on
11/05/2005 5:50:24 PM PST
by
SaltyJoe
(A mother's sorrowful heart and personal sacrifice redeems her lost child's soul.)
To: expatpat
To: beandog
I would imagine everybody over at the WarshTimes is simply preoccupied with ROTFLTAO.
107
posted on
11/05/2005 5:53:32 PM PST
by
muawiyah
(/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again? How'bout a double sarcasm for this one)
To: Congressman Billybob; Nomorjer Kinov
You two are saying contradictory things on a single point:
Did WaPo deny or confirm they know who MD4Bush is?
Thanks.
108
posted on
11/05/2005 5:53:37 PM PST
by
rvoitier
("Hug your babies tight"--Luanne Platter)
To: SteveMcKing
I am sure they are reading this at the Post, but maybe we should email it right to them? They might gain tips on how to run a newspaper. lol. Everyone wave and say "hi" to the ComPost people.
To: Congressman Billybob
Congressman Billy Bob
What do you think are the legal liabilities and financial liabilities that the Washington Post could face if it turns out that MD4Bush is a Washington Post staffer or a Post staffer worked in collusion with whomever MD4Bush is?
110
posted on
11/05/2005 5:54:55 PM PST
by
cpdiii
(Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, Oil Field Trash and proud of it, full time Iconoclast.)
To: rvoitier
To: Terpfen
When they were tossing over a hundred million bucks down the rathole building their website the WarshPost undoubtedly encountered some contractors with the requisite skills to provide them with the means of unlocking every email system in the world.
Unless the WarshPost starts coming clean on this, some folks over there are going to end up going to jail for a very, very, very long time!
112
posted on
11/05/2005 5:55:27 PM PST
by
muawiyah
(/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again? How'bout a double sarcasm for this one)
To: Cicero
113
posted on
11/05/2005 5:55:36 PM PST
by
Judith Anne
(Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
To: expatpat
The intermediary better be a lawyer or else the truth will be subpeonaed and brought to light.
114
posted on
11/05/2005 5:57:13 PM PST
by
stocksthatgoup
(Polls = Proof that when the MSM want yo"ur opinion they will give it to you.)
To: Anti-Bubba182
Excellent, thanks for your time.
115
posted on
11/05/2005 5:57:28 PM PST
by
SeaBiscuit
(God Bless all who defend America and Friends, the rest can go to hell.)
To: Keith in Iowa
It already is. Why am I not surprised that the MSM is manufacturing negative stories against republicans?
To: Anti-Bubba182
"Also, he might go to a Federal Prosecutor."
Well, it's not as though Mr Fitzgerald has anything important to do - maybe he could be persuaded to look into this.
117
posted on
11/05/2005 5:59:30 PM PST
by
decal
(Mother Nature and Real Life are conservatives; the Progs have never figured this out.)
To: kristinn
Has MD4BUSH been banned? I see his posts are still up when I check his profile but no profile. How did they access his FReep mail if he has been banned?
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posted on
11/05/2005 5:59:34 PM PST
by
tubebender
(Chris Matthews suffers from "IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE"...)
To: kristinn
What did the Washington Post know, and when did they know it?
119
posted on
11/05/2005 6:00:05 PM PST
by
Doctor Raoul
(Franken screwed so many at the Boys and Girls Club that NAMBLA wants to give him an award!)
To: NCPAC; MD4Bush; xcullen; Anti-Bubba182; Mo1; cyncooper; BillF; crushkerry; Howlin; backhoe; ...
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