Washington Post Now Claims "Authorized" to Access MD4BUSH Account

Saturday, November 5, 2005 | Kristinn

[Buffettfan]

WAPO has been "Rathered"!

[bitt]

sink your teeth into THIS one....

[3D-JOY]

I have tried to read through this...very confusing sometimes.

Is this really a "great big deal"...with legs?

Seems to be, but so have many before.

[reagandemocrat]

WashPo angry over their failed lawsuit against FR five years ago, wanting vengeance, and tripping over their own stupidity.

Now JimRob is in the litigation catbird seat.

Woo Hoo!

[Rocketwolf68]

Funny how the left wails about free speech but tries desperately to stop any truth telling to the masses by the right. McCarthy was right.

[Enchante]

WaPo is full of it as usual - they cannot possible have been 'authorized' unless they know who MD4Bush is.... how on earth can you be 'authorized' to use a confidential password to enter a private email box unless you KNOW who gave you the authorization to access their confidential material??? This won't work through any intermediary -- It is an inherent contradiction to claim you are 'authorized' if you don't even know who supposedly gave the authorization. It is an impossibility, because the window is wide open for fraud if you don't know who's doing the authorizing.........

[libill]

Sure the Post was authorized if MD4BUSH was a plant.

[GretchenM]

"If the WP does not know who MD4Bush is, how can they maintain they had authoriztion from that person. Also, under FR rules, which MD4Bush had to agree to to register, the User agrees to not disclose the account Info. 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."

Wish I had the photoshopping stuff to put up a .gif of the WaPo with its newspaper pants down.

[Kenny Bunk]

We are wide open to this sort of thing. It has an exact analogy in the fight against communism, in which we are limited, or limit ourselves, to honorable means, and they are not. IMHO, the Republicans have NEVER paid enough attention to communications. One might think we would learn after 50 years in the minority.

[Paladin2]

Now that would be quite the headline: -

WaPo NOW 0\/\/n3d by VRWC!

[Atchafalaya]

HUH?? Seen worse and so have you.

[bitt]

'the Republicans have NEVER paid enough attention to communications. One might think we would learn after 50 years in the minority.'

you would think that the Pubs would have the market cornered on good commuications and marketing of ideas...instead we seem to be pushing the mute button....?

[The Old Hoosier]

Time for revenge against the Post for preventing posted articles...

[Fruit of the Spirit]

Jealousy makes people do strange things.

[VRWCmember]

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."

We logged into a private account of a third party on a privately owned web-posting forum.
We don't know the identity of the account holder.
We were authorized to use the account holder's private login credentials.

[ForTruthandJustice]

I sure hope that JimRob can track down these "bogus" posters. It's obvious to me they came to FR to do some kind of damage and left as mysteriously as they came.

When JimRob finds out their connections, if he doesn't know already, I hope he outs them to us and the media pronto.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Did the Washington Post Violate the Electronic Communications Privacy Act? (MD4Bush)

[HighWheeler]

Ping for an EXCELLENT thread.