[No Longer Free State]

John, you'll eventually be forced to publish your research in response to the predictable outcry, so you might as well publish it here, now.

[Congressman Billybob]

If I published my research, it would be in the form of thousands of websites visited, and hundreds of them bookmarked, and finally the relevant contents of the dozens which had small details of the story. To use just one example, the high school website of one of the women involved dovetailed with information from many other sites and provided one piece of key information I had been researching for, for hours.

I would prefer that others do their own homework and establish for themselves to their satisfaction that this story is true. And all they need is skill on Internet research, and the persistence to keep wading through page after page which looks promising but isn't, to find the few that add one more piece to the puzzle.

I was working here as a reporter, so I will reveal my sources only to my editors, unless ordered to reveal them by a court of competent jurisdiction. I'll say right now that I do not believe that reporters are above the law. So in that circumstance only, I will "publish my research."

John / Billybob