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Dan Wolfe/@patriotUSA76 and @goatsred Tracking Weiner’s Tweets

Well, here are some clues:

@goatsred was helping Dan Wolfe, aka @patriotusa76 track Anthony Weiner's communications with girls on Twitter.

Here's a good Christian cutie who'd rather be getting krunk with Weiner:

A little bit of overlap between @goatsred and @repweiner:

Well, so what does this prove?

It proves these guys weren't paid operatives or hackers. They were just following Weiner on Twitter. The @patriotusa76 post about a Weiner scandal probably refers to compiling the information that they already had to demonstrate a pattern of behavior.

It also shows that anyone can get access to anyone else's yfrog pics pretty easily. If the Weiner crotch-shot was manipulated, it was probably in the process of saving it in the specified size to the desktop, but these guys didn't need any kind of special computer magic to get what they got.

If you go to someone's crowdreel account . . . also easy to get into . . . you can retweet directly from there. So, this is how a "hack" becomes a "prank," though I doubt very much that anyone needs a private security firm to get to the bottom of it.

Imagining that it was likely that @patriotUSA76 would have a Facebook account if he was on Twitter, I plowed through the Dan Wolfes there last night, and came up with two likely candidates. One is this guy. I say so because he follows the Independence HS '76ers and lists TEA Party activism among his interests. The other is this guy. He's a suspect in my book because he states that his relationship with his wife is complicated (one of the reasons Dan Wolfe doesn't want to come forward, according to Stranahan), and because he seems to be a bit of a hunter, in the largest sense of that term, and because of the presence of weapons fan @jihadihunter.

Naturally, all this is speculation. There was only one Dan Wolfe who had any mutual Facebook friends with me, and that was a young guy from USC who shared one contact. So, perhaps I'm barking up the wrong trees.

Ezra Dulis:

Several websites have deemed this coincidence suspicious in light of Wolfe’s mentions of Weiner before the “Weinergate” incident. Daily Kos blogger “Stef,” in a “smoking gun” update to a post claiming the tweet from Weiner’s account was a “Twitter Hoax” involving Andrew Breitbart, sardonically notes that Wolfe predicted a sex scandal involving Weiner and explicit pictures on May 11th, over two weeks before Big Government and Big Journalism first reported “Weinergate.” The author does not accuse Wolfe of hijacking Weiner’s account to post the photo, but she does point out the coincidence that Wolfe was the only real-time witness and retweeter of the alleged lewd message when, weeks earlier, he spread that rumor and asserted “@RepWeiner loves young girls.” Gawker author Max Read stated that the recipient of the “Weinergate” tweet, through her statement to the New York Daily News, “would seem to corroborate” Stef’s “theories,” adding that Wolfe “may be the person responsible for the Congressman’s errant Tweet.”

In response, Wolfe again cites his circle of like-minded Twitter contacts. “It’s not just me–see my regular buddies here [redacted] [redacted], etc. We talk about him because he is always around.” In Stef’s screenshot of Wolfe’s May 12th tweets, his linked screenshots of young women allegedly followed by Weiner belong to the yfrog account of one of the Twitter users he privately disclosed. Wolfe continues, “People noticed a pattern on him and our group, all of us–you can see ALL our timelines–not just me–we saw the pattern too.”

Contrary to Stef’s report, Wolfe first tweeted about Congressman Weiner and a sex scandal on May 5th, citing a friend’s report of a right-wing blog rumor. The rumor vaguely claimed that a high-profile, northeast-region Democrat was involved in a sex scandal with photo evidence. Wolfe speculated that the politicians who fit that profile were Charles Rangel, Anthony Weiner, or Barney Frank, and he asked Weiner and Rangel one after the other multiple times if they were involved in the scandal. One of Wolfe’s final tweets on the subject on May 11th said it was his “hope” Weiner was the politician in question “if [the] rumor is true.”

UPDATE: Interesting. This and the last post got hits from Quantico.

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