Posted on 11/10/2005 2:29:24 PM PST by Republican Red
Thanks for posting this.
This story is starting to grow more legs.
fyi and ping list
This is going to be the Post's Rathergate before it is done.
I think you were the first to bring up this potential law breaking event by the Compost.
Outstanding!
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How do you know who "someone" IS without knowing who that someone IS and still give them info that is clearly in violation of the law? :-\
NRO got involved a few days ago. Spruill and K-lo seemed to be very interested.
He thought that he'd play a dirty trick
The guy thought he was really slick
The Maryland gov he had been planning to nail
The strategy was brilliant, and there's no way that he could fail
He had logged on and signed up for FReeperville
The rush it gave him was a thrill
His subterfuge was a game
Steffen's set up, and he'd take the blame
They had discussed an O'Malley affair
The Mayor said there's nothing there
Perhaps his wife's not Number One
Those wascally Wepublicans
Oh where, oh where is MD4Bush
We'll be kicking his worthless tush
He thought he'd fool us and that he was so great
But just like Mapes and Rather there's a lesson he learned too late
Steffen got the axe and MD's riding high
He thought he had been so very sly
Ehrlich's hurt, O'Malley's polls would rise
Unknown to them, they would get a surprise
The brilliant plan would soon become undone
Do not mess with Mr. Robinson
A trail was left that led back to the Dems
It's not surprising that it had been them
Time to admit all the mischief that you wrought
MD4BUSH, now you've been caught
Oh where, oh where is MD4Bush
We'll be kicking his worthless tush
He thought he'd fool us and that he was so great
But just like Mapes and Rather there's a lesson he learned too late
He's in hiding now...poor MD4BUSH
He'll wet his pants and how...we will kick his tush
He's gone in hiding now...poor MD4BUSH
He'll wet his pants and how...we will kick his tush
They should have learned from Rather. The longer they wait, the worse it gets. If they had any sense, they'd have fired the reporter responsible long since and cut their losses. But it's too late for that now.
This is getting to be fun. Long-run popcorn item...
Yes, but this is a much longer article, isn't it?
The Washington Times ran an article too, which is linked in the NR article. But they still got one thing wrong, namely that Steffen was drawn by MD4BUSH into spreading rumors. Steffen never spread any rumors, contrary to the Post, and that now seems to be true of the private emails as well as the public threads. All Steffen said is "don't go there," or words to that effect.
Sue! Sue! Sue!
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.
The article additionally points out that for Mosk to legally use the MD4Bush account he would have needed to get the permission of FR first, which he certainly did not. The only other way legally is if Mosk was MD4Bush, which I doubt.
"How do you know who "someone" IS without knowing who that someone IS and still give them info that is clearly in violation of the law? :-\"
First of all, we must define the definition of "is".
I knew someone would catch the inference of the word IS. ;-)
Still trying to find a concise comparison/contrast of MD4BUSH/Jeff Gannon fiascoes to forward to my libby friends. (And for my own education) Anyone?
Looks like WaPo has got itself deep in the do do.
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