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Washington Post Now Claims "Authorized" to Access MD4BUSH Account
Saturday, November 5, 2005 | Kristinn

Posted on 11/05/2005 4:36:11 PM PST by kristinn

After yesterday's press conference in front of The Washington Post building in downtown Washington, D.C. that criticized The Post for violating their sourcing guidelines and for accessing a FreeRepublic.com account in possible violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, an editor for The Post is now claiming authorization to log-in to the account of MD4BUSH.

Earlier this week, Post Maryland editor R.B. Brenner made statements that reporter Matthew Mosk had logged in to MD4BUSH's account "two or three times" after being given the password by an "intermediary" in order to authenticate private messages sent between MD4BUSH and NCPAC on Free Republic.

Brenner has maintained that The Post does not know who MD4BUSH is.

Brenner is reported to have made the following statement to The Post for their story today about the press conference:

"As part of our reporting, we needed to verify that the chat room postings were authentic. We were authorized to view them, and it was appropriate to do so under the circumstances."

Link to Post article here.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: brownshirtsforkerry; hackshacking; howtostealanelection; leonarddownie; md4bush; mediabias; mosk; ncpac; smearcampaign; trolls; waronerror; whathappenedtooptout; wp; zogbyism
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

Unless it be known that the Person's Heart is Pure, Like Mary Mapes or Anybody who works for the Washington Post...


61 posted on 11/05/2005 5:14:31 PM PST by an amused spectator (If Social Security isn't broken, then cut me a check for the cash I have into it.)
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To: sausageseller

We may be wearing our pajama's but .....we're watching the MSM very carefully.


62 posted on 11/05/2005 5:15:17 PM PST by OldFriend (The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1
Washington POST Cybercriminals?? Read this.
63 posted on 11/05/2005 5:16:01 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1 (Lock-n-load!)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

They may have to admit they know who MD4Bush is in order to get off the hook legally.


64 posted on 11/05/2005 5:17:16 PM PST by expatpat
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To: kristinn
The blond with the close-set eyes, right?

She seemed to have a lot of trouble grasping the basics of the story.

65 posted on 11/05/2005 5:17:38 PM PST by tgslTakoma
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To: Lloyd227

Originating IP can be masked with simple off-the-shelve software.....


66 posted on 11/05/2005 5:18:06 PM PST by nevergore (“It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.”)
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bookmark


67 posted on 11/05/2005 5:18:18 PM PST by maggief
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

Sounds to me like 6 months in the slammer unless they cough up MD4BUSH authorizing them to do it. Frog March time. Time to sieze all the Washington Post computer systems. Muhahaha


68 posted on 11/05/2005 5:20:38 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1 (Lock-n-load!)
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To: Nomorjer Kinov

They then put the private mail on the public forum -- you have to be logged on to do that.


69 posted on 11/05/2005 5:20:42 PM PST by expatpat
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To: Congressman Billybob
The Post is building the case against itself, brick by brick.

They're busted hard and they know it. I read this as the distress signal - they're hoping the NYT and the rest of the media will circle the wagons like they did when the TANG documents were exposed. The question is, will the rest of the media realize the seriousness of this and come charging to the rescue, or will they try to capitalize at the Compost's expense?

70 posted on 11/05/2005 5:21:00 PM PST by CFC__VRWC ("Anytime a liberal squeals in outrage, an angel gets its wings!" - gidget7)
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To: expatpat

So far, they are not on the hook. Someone will have to sue or file a criminal complaint over this.


71 posted on 11/05/2005 5:22:01 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: SeaBiscuit
How could WAPO be "authorized to view" ??

Exactly. If, as they say, they didn't know who the "owner" of the MD4BUSH ID was, then how could they really be sure that they had the legitimate MD4BUSH's authorization?

I think the Compost editor is full of (Woodward).

72 posted on 11/05/2005 5:22:05 PM PST by tgslTakoma
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To: SeaBiscuit

something as simple as a keylogger trojan gould get someone what they want.


73 posted on 11/05/2005 5:22:16 PM PST by xcamel (No more RINOS - Not Now, Not Ever Again.)
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To: weegee

IIRC, Jim has already said that he knows who MD4Bush is.


74 posted on 11/05/2005 5:23:02 PM PST by expatpat
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To: chiller

Yeppers...that is one lawsuit that I would cheerlead for!


75 posted on 11/05/2005 5:24:04 PM PST by Txsleuth (I am the real TXSLEUTH...please freepmail me if you doubt it.)
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To: expatpat; Congressman Billybob

"They may have to admit they know who MD4Bush is in order to get off the hook legally."

But wouldn't they also need the authorization of NCPAC since WAPO is claiming to be a third party as Congressman Billybob mentioned?


76 posted on 11/05/2005 5:25:38 PM PST by SeaBiscuit (God Bless all who defend America and Friends, the rest can go to hell.)
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To: beandog

Do newspapers usually do stories about shenanigans of other newspapers???

Maybe they are afraid that this might be a "common" practice and they may have some guilty parties at their paper.

I have no doubt, though, that a lot of the OLD media would love to see Free Republic in legal trouble...we give THEM a bad name.


78 posted on 11/05/2005 5:26:32 PM PST by Txsleuth (I am the real TXSLEUTH...please freepmail me if you doubt it.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Which means the account user did not have the authority to give such authorization.

So the Post is smack dab in the middle of a conundrum


79 posted on 11/05/2005 5:26:36 PM PST by savedbygrace
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Steffen has all the standing he needs.


80 posted on 11/05/2005 5:26:53 PM PST by expatpat
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