It appears to me that your reporting on the original thread is based entirely on the erroneously reported Cat White diary about it at the Daily Kos. I bet you didn't even see the thread on FR.
If discovery were performed would the Vancouver Sun be able to produce an IP log showing you researched the thread on FR before the thread was pulled?
Revising and extending my remarks: It's obvious you used the Daily Kos diary by
Halfrican for your article because you use the same "quotes" as in that diary. You don't attach screen names to them because Halfrican didn't.
Also, it was CatM's diary where you got the 'it was pulled, restored then pulled' part for your story.
Again, I don' think you saw the offending thread on Free Republic that you wrote about.