Secret Service investigates Web site that posted the names of GOP delegates
Monday, September 20, 2004 at 08:22AM
TheSpook
A Carnegie Mellon University student who is webmaster for a site that
posted the names of delegates to the Republican National Convention is
a subject of criminal investigation by the Secret Service into voter
intimidation. . Matt Toups, 22, is one of the four administrators
ofwww.indymedia.org, a Web site of the Independent Media Center, a
collective of media organizations and journalists. There are more than
100 member centers throughout the world, including Pittsburgh and New
York. On Aug. 18, an anonymous poster tonyc.indymedia.org published the
names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of 1,600 delegates
to the Republican National Convention in New York City along with a
message for anti-RNC groups to use the information "in whatever way
they see fit." [more ]
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