The local television news (WJZ13) did a segment on the Steffen/MD4BUSH controversy tonight. They mentioned Freerepublic.com. The camera angled flashed a shot of a computer screen logged on to FR. It displayed a post and you could make out the handles: TBP and ILLUMINATI_216. I could not tell what thread it was.
WBAL Channel 11 (television news) apparently will run a story on this at 6:00pm EST.