About two months ago, a WA PO reporter, named Matthew Mosk called me about my posts regarding Barack Obama. he said that I was the first person on FreeRepublic to identify Barack Obama as a former Muslim and he wanted to know where I got my information.
I got my information from Wikipedia in 2004, on the day that Obama gave his speech. Mosk said that they were trying to track down the source of an email that had circulated about Obama and he wanted to know if I had received such an email. I told him that I never received any political emails that I didn’t sign up for, and that the information about Obama was readily available on the web in 2004. He laughed. He asked me if I still thought that it was important that Obama was a Muslim. I told him that I thought it was more important that he was lying about it.
Mosk told me that he was working on an article about the source of the rumors regarding Obama. He sounded disappointed with my answers. I’m thinking that Mosk was doing opposition research for Obama. He was looking to marginalize conservative anti-Obama people on the web.
Matthew Mosk is the reporter that was involved in that FreeRepublic issue in Maryland, where he used someone’s password to access the Freepmail and tried to draw a Republican aide into some scandal. I forget what the whole thing was about, but it was totally unscrupulous. He found me through posts that I made about my husband’s job. I was stupid. I want to warn everyone to be careful about what you sey on FreeRepublic because they are watching.
Don’t worry, Eva. Whatever is said on FR will be distorted by the Wash. Post. That’s what Milbank did to the press conference mentioned in this column. They never let the truth bother them, nor do they ask for real information. They only pretend to cover certain types of stories.
Been there!
FOR ALL: One correction: Venona was actually the term for the efforts by the US to decode Soviet electronic transmissions to their agents in the US, not the name of the Soviet operation itself. The documents that were transcripted/decoded are known as the “Venona Documents’.