[cgk]

According to a source familiar with the MD4Bush postings,

This sure popped out at me. If JimRob/FR is not divulging info re: the electronic trail of MD4BUSH ... who is the source familiar with MD4BUSH's postings who gave the media the email addresses?

[benjibrowder]

That question occured to me as well. Where did the people get the email addresses (and not just one, but all three of them)?, unless MD4BUSH is still out there somewhere passing information such as the account passwords and other stuff himself.

[Jim Robinson]

I gave some info to a trusted professional (who wishes to remain anonymous for the time being) who is helping us get to the bottom of this matter. When asked if I was worried that it might go public some day, I said, no, it's bound to get out sooner or later anyway.

I feel that a (possibly criminal) political dirty trick has been committed against Governor Ehrlich and Joe Steffen and the evidence would lead any rational thinking person to believe that it was perpetrated by officials of mddems.org, perhaps working in concert with a reporter from the Washington Post.

After this story first broke, I was startled to discover an email address from mddems.org associated with the MD4Bush account and then even more startled when I discovered logins to that account from the Washington Post's server. I posted my suspicions early on and almost welcomed a subpoena from any investigative committee that might be interested. Not surprisingly, the Democrat controlled committees were not interested in following leads on Democrat corruption.

The reporter on the original story lied. He originally claimed that he did not know the identity of MD4Bush. He also did not disclose that he had secretly logged into the MD4Bush account after mysteriously receiving the password from an unknown source, nor did he disclose the nefarious motivations of his sources. Later (probably because he knew we had the evidence against him in our logs) he attempted to cover his lies and now claims he received the password for MD4Bush from an unnamed intermediary. This too appears to be a lie and all of his actions in regards to this matter appear to be breaches of journalistic ethics and standards (as if there were such things in the MSM).

I believe that if an official of mddems.org (ie, the official Maryland Democrat Party) is working in collusion with The Washington Post in an attempt to bring down a sitting Republican governor, then this would be a much more serious crime than anything Joe Steffen may have posted on an open public forum, and it should be exposed. Hell, it should be breaking news.

So, why am I not concerned that the reporters finally got the email address info? Well, first of all, MD4Bush breached any agreement he may have had with Free Republic.

Number one, the very first post he made after registering was to NCPAC, so it's obvious he had intent and a targeted individual in mind from the very start. It's also now just as obvious that he had nefarious purposes in mind when he registered to FR posing as a conservative when he was actually an official Democrat mole. This is called playing games with his FR account which is against our rules.

Number two, he used FR to purposely plant false rumors.

Number three, he shared his password with one or more third parties.

Number four, he passed on the real life identity of one of our members along with his private mail communications to a third party (a Washington Post reporter) with the intent said reporter would publish said private material.

Number five, he then posted the same private mail messages to the open forum.

Number six, all of this appears to be a conspiracy with malicious intent to defame, libel, slander and defraud Steffen and Ehrlich. Using FR for criminal purposes is against our rules.

And so, no I'm not concerned that it's going public. As I said above, the fact that The Washington Post is working in concert with the Democrat Party in an attempt to bring down a sitting Republican Governor should be breaking news. And if the Democrat controlled committee is not interested and the MSM is not interested, then the story might as well break right here on Free Republic where MD4Bush and the Washington Post perpetrated the crime. The truth shall set you free.