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.
WAPO has been "Rathered"!
sink your teeth into THIS one....
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.
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!
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.
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.........
Sure the Post was authorized if MD4BUSH was a plant.
Wish I had the photoshopping stuff to put up a .gif of the WaPo with its newspaper pants down.
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.
WaPo NOW 0\/\/n3d by VRWC!
HUH?? Seen worse and so have you.
'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....?
Time for revenge against the Post for preventing posted articles...
Jealousy makes people do strange things.
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.
Ping for an EXCELLENT thread.
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