We may well be witnessing an event like the exposure of Dan Rather. That, of course, was first uncovered by FReeper, Buckhead. In the current matter, FR serves for dissemination of original investigation and getting the story noticed.
We covered the Murkowski vote-theft heavily, but nobody cared about bought-off Eskimos in 2010. The RNSC - Cornyn - was able to rinse that all away.