[Registered]

Leaving Terrance to your attorney and a potential meeting with the FBI is tantamount to complicity in this "crime"! Post what you have Doug! Unless you paid him, I see nothing but a legal black hole by passing Terrance's information to an attorney. As far as the FBI goes, saying that he was a paid consultant to the CIA is not the same as saying he was the CIA.

I know you are busy, send me the stuff and I'll make sure it gets posted.

[CedarDave]

Leaving Terrance to your attorney and a potential meeting with the FBI is tantamount to complicity in this "crime"! Post what you have Doug!

Ditto!

[Pegita]

You think the attorney might be for Doug's protection, too?

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Doug, I think you need to post a scanned copy of the business card at a minimum - or let Registered do it.

[Miss Marple]

I applaud you gentlemen for asking the tough questions. I have been gone all day and just read this thread.

I am not impressed with the apology after the story has been picked up by other wires, which I believe was the intent.

I would also, as Registered and others have requested, like proof that this person even existed outside the imagination of Mr. Thompson. To my mind the Wilkinson character is no better than the New York Times "unnamed administration officials" that I have complained about for years.

I do hope that people take two lessons from this episode:

1. Any story that is not accurately sourced must be looked at with scepticism.

2. Free Republic is USED by leftists to advance their agenda. We should be more careful and do more to prevent it from happening.

[MJY1288]

I'm gonna send this whole story over to Sean Hannity, he likes getting to the bottom of these things, I will send it over to Bill O'Reilly as well. I suggest everyone here send the original "Bush Lied" article with the un-edited headline, why and how the title was edited, along with the great work William McKinley did by adding links to his post yesterday and the response from Doug Thompson on that thread along with links to tonights thread.

The more people involved in this serious matter, the quicker we ferret out who the telling lies and who is not