[Sarajevo]

The same article is posted at Friends of Liberty, but dated 1 Dec, 2007.

This seems to be a rehashed rant, but I thought it would interest posters here since FR is prominently mentioned several times.

[Perdogg]

ping

[tongue-tied]

Thanks, I missed this back when I was a lurker.

[palmer]

ping

[Sir Hailstone]

as it turns out, FreeRepublic.com, a cheerleading bleachers populated and financed by high-level members of the Republican National Committee and GOP.”

So I’m a high-level member of the RNC now? Thanks for the memo.

[M Kehoe]

I think we have just been slimed.

5.56mm

[EternalVigilance]

Haven’t had a chance to study the bulk of whatever it is this person is saying, but reading the first couple of paragraphs would lead me to believe they’re completely full of it.

The “Torie” who used to hang out on Free Republic most definitely is NOT Torie Clarke. Instead, he was a rather liberal Republican gentleman from the West Coast. I even met him once.

[camle]

hey! we’uns a “wide-ranging propaganda organ”!!!

wonder which organ they’re referring to...

[Verginius Rufus]

Is this the "Truther" corollary to their view of 9/11? The author clearly doesn't accept the official version of the 9/11 attacks. He also leaves out how a NYT columnist ruined the career of an innocent scientist by accusing him of being connected to the anthrax attacks (considering him guilty because he had spent some time in South Africa and Rhodesia when they were under white-minority rule).

We never have found out who was behind the anthrax attacks, but "jihadists" still sounds like the most plausible scenario.

[Jim Robinson]

All right. Who’s got the “not this sh... again” graphic? Todd Brendan Fahey was the model for the “this is your brain on drugs” commercial.

[SShultz460]

Didn’t know I’m a High Level RNC Operative. I’m just a dude who works nights. I wish people would learn this about our forum.

[southland]

bttt

[John Valentine]

That’s not a “rant”. That there is “raving,” as in “stark raving mad”.

[an amused spectator]

If you want some entertainment, Google "todd brendan fahey".

Whew! Merde!

[NonValueAdded]

Ah, a chance to thank you directly! Embeds was a masterstroke. Thank you.

[vetvetdoug]

Everything anyone wants to know about anthrax can be found by talking with veterinarians in Uvalde, Texas.

[NeoCaveman]

At the popular political site FreeRepublic.com, Victoria Clarke posts as "Torie"--a self-proclaimed "statist neocon." The Pentagon's disinformation campaign was already in motion on September 5, 2001, and Victoria Clarke, then employed as Deputy Director for Public Affairs, was its "go-to girl" on "the anthrax question."

Right here, this is false. FR's Torie is/was an affable albeit liberal Republican fellow from California.

[Freedom Dignity n Honor]

What rubbish!

[LS]

I don't consider mailing any "bogus" information to that moron Keith Olbermann a mis-deed of any type. He doesn't report real news---he makes up everything. So how can you possibly supply fiction to someone who only deals in fiction? It's like complaining that you're giving a pig more mud.

As for the anthrax itself, people around here flame me incessantly because while I think it was AQ-related and that the operation somehow involved AQ, they didn't just pull this out of their turbans. I do think someone on the inside was involved, possibly unknowingly, possibly out of duress/blackmail, or possibly for $$.

[A.A. Cunningham]

For what it's worth:

Report on Todd Brendan Fahey

[Libloather]

From the Pentagon to the private sector, Victoria Clarke has been at the center of some of the most historic events in the United States in recent years. Serving most recently as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Clarke was at her desk in the Pentagon's outer ring when the World Trade Center was attacked on September 11, 2001. By the time the Pentagon was hit, Clarke had already moved to the Command Center, where she was one of a small handful of top aides to stay with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld throughout the day-leaving the building only to see the crash site and brief the media. From those first moments on 9/11, to embedding correspondents with military units in Operation Iraqi Freedom-a program she conceived, designed and ran-Clarke has played a leading role in shaping the public's understanding of the war on terrorism.

http://www.stennis.gov/swips/torieclarke.htm