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Posted on 12/15/2005 3:52:26 PM PST by conservative in nyc
The operator of FreeRepublic.com has had little to say of the MD4Bush mystery -- until now.
WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team lead investigative reporter Jayne Miller reported the operator of FreeRepublic.com holds the biggest clues to the identity of the Internet user MD4Bush. They include e-mail accounts and electronic log-in information.
The operator of the conservative Web site has not yet spilled all the beans, but he has made it clear that he believes he owes nothing to MD4Bush in terms of protecting privacy.
In a lengthy posting early Thursday morning, Jim Robinson, the operator of the California-based FreeRepublic.com, explained why he is now willing to allow information about the Internet user MD4Bush to become public.
Last October, MD4Bush used private e-mails on Free Republic's Web site to coax a former aide to Gov. Bob Ehrlich, Joe Steffen, into discussing the personal life of Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley.
On Wednesday, relying on a source familiar with the postings, the 11 News I-Team revealed the e-mail addresses associated with the MD4Bush account. They include "ryanrock2004@yahoo.com," which was used to open the account. That address was then changed to "rodoherty@mddems.org," and then changed again to "brianwaverly@yahoo.com."
The O'Doherty e-mail address is the same one listed to Ryan O'Doherty at the time he worked for the Maryland Democratic Party. O'Doherty has denied any connection to MD4Bush.
The 11 News I-Team also learned Thursday of other changes to the MD4Bush account. Miller said that in addition to the e-mail registration address on the MD4Bush account, the sign-on password had changed twice -- once in October 2004 and a second time in mid-January this year, just weeks before the Steffen story broke.
In his posting Thursday, Robinson claimed MD4Bush breached the agreement with Free Republic, arguing that MD4Bush targeted Steffen from the start by ...
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Any FR username that appears on Bugmenot is presumptively (rebuttable) a troll.
Yep, middle school girl plot, yet done by supposed adult males.
Oh,the irony of that. May it be so!
He could have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express....
True enough but see post #21 too.
Very good chance of that...
However, conservative in NYC makes a related point in post #20 on this thread.
bttt
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It was indeed a bumper crop for Zot at FR this year. ;-)
Don't look for much out of the gutless weasels in the DOJ.
I don't. If they ever do anything with the law it is not likely to involve the Washington Post or other big news outfit, whatever their violations.
Operator? You're an OPERATOR?
Well whoathunkit! ;)
You can't say that often enough. Steffan NEVER spread any rumors in any of the public threads, and I think I have read all of them. MD4BUSH tried to egg him on, and Steffan refused to bite.
The entire Washington Post story, that Steffan spread rumors about the Mayor of Baltimore or others, is a LIE. A big, fat lie. A setup that didn't work, yet they pretended it did. Even WBAL, which has written a number of factual stories on this scandal, has not always made that clear.
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BFLR
Bump for stupid Dems.
One ringy dingy. Two ringy dingies...
There is a 'rat in that mousetrap
BTTT...
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