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An on-line friend just sent me this link. I'm not someone who has paid much attention to FreeRepublic so don't have much of a mental context in which to put this. I am aware of the whole Nick Berg / FR thing, which was really scary. I'm posting this because I'd like input from people here more knowledgeable about FR than I am. This is from: http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3029">FreeRepublic.com at Center of US Anthrax Scandal by Todd Brendan Fahey, November 13, 2006. Closing paragraphs:

What to conclude--of a former deputy director of public affairs, the Pentagon, and a solitary and, according to neighbors, unfriendly man being both highly active posters of FreeRepublic.com and both neck-deep in the anthrax equation? And of this writer being hounded out of a half-dozen publications and Web discussion fora for pointing it out?

Two so-called "conservatives" (or, neo-conservatives) are busted ("Torie" for lying about what the Pentagon knew and was doing; Chad Castanaga, for mailing what turns out to be bogus anthrax to media members and politicians); as far back as year-2001, the New York Post implicated, as being involved in the transmission of anthrax through the mails, a "popular West Coast right-wing organization"...as it turns out, FreeRepublic.com, a cheerleading bleachers populated and financed by high-level members of the Republican National Committee and GOP.

To cop a phrase: "I can't seem to get my mind around it."

What is known is, we are five years after the fact, and nobody--other than our own--is proven to have cultivated, tested, stored, traded or mailed anthrax bacilli. While we hunt for "terrorists" around the globe and create impenetrable layers of new bureaucracy and fill the walls with prying eyes, let us first consider that which the evidence suggests--as it does with the gamut of events and scenarios surrounding the World Trade Center and Pentagon of September 11, 2001: that something is rotten from within.

Edit: This is posted on a very right-wing site.