...and the media dam cracks in the US on "Swatting"

Since May 17^th when Aaron Wor­thing first went pub­lic about his encoun­ters with Brett Kim­ber­lin & com­pany and Robert Stacy McCain fol­lowed up that same day with the first of what is now dozens of posts on the sub­ject the ques­tion arose when the media would take notice while oth­ers paid the price for defend­ing their first amend­ment rights.

Even as blog­gers took over Meme­o­ran­dum, Pat­terico went pub­lic on his Swat­ting, Glenn Beck took notice, Aaron Wor­thing was jailed and Erick Erick­son of Red State & CNN was swat­ted the media remained silent.

Well now there has been a devel­op­ment that can’t be ignored:

Today, U.S. Sen. Saxby Cham­b­liss, R-​Ga., sent a let­ter to Attor­ney Gen­eral Eric Holder regard­ing recent reports that sev­eral con­ser­v­a­tive polit­i­cal com­men­ta­tors have been tar­geted with harass­ing and fright­en­ing actions. Cham­b­liss demanded that Holder exam­ine these cases to deter­mine if fed­eral laws have been violated.

These dan­ger­ous hoaxes, also known as “SWAT-​ting,” occur when a per­pe­tra­tor con­tacts local police to report a vio­lent inci­dent at a target’s home. These callers are believed to uti­lize voice-​over IP (VOIP) and other less-​traditional telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions meth­ods to make the call appear to come from the tar­get res­i­dence and to hide the caller’s true identity.

Yup that’s US sen­a­tor Saxby Cham­b­liss con­tact­ing the Jus­tice Depart­ment on the Swat­ting issue, and while the MSM might have ignored blog­gers this is a dif­fer­ent ket­tle of fish to wit:

ABC News spoke with two promi­nent con­ser­v­a­tive blog­gers who were vic­tims of SWAT-​ting, a hoax tac­tic used by some hack­ers to infil­trate a victim’s phone sys­tem, often through voice over IP (VOIP) tech­nol­ogy to make calls appear as if they are com­ing from a res­i­dence. The per­pe­tra­tors call police to report a vio­lent crime at that home to which the police respond, some­times with SWAT teams.

and yup again, that’s ABC news (and amaz­ingly some­one other than Jake Tap­per) writ­ing about the story of blog­gers get­ting SWAT­TED (yes CNN you’ve been scooped on your own story again!)

It will be very dif­fi­cult to keep this quiet from this point on. Attempts will be made to change the nar­ra­tive, but the bot­tom line, that a group of left­ist, financed by some of the biggest names on the left have sys­tem­at­i­cally attempted to silence con­ser­v­a­tive voices on the net using law­fare and worse is going to be told.

It has cost peo­ple much to reach this point, and it will cost more to get to the final chap­ter of this story, but the story will be told and Kim­ber­lin and all his allies can’t stop it now.

My advice for the Swat­ter who­ever he might be, I’d strongly sug­gest turn­ing states evi­dence NOW, because you can be sure that your friends will be throw­ing you under the bus as soon as they see any dan­ger to themselves.

Update: Insta­lanche thanks Glenn and a reminder to CNN that appar­ently needs a news direc­tor that a cer­tain first-​rate reporter who imme­di­ately rec­og­nized this story as news­wor­thy is still avail­able for hire.

Update 2: Now it’s been reported on Fox, hew if you are the Swat­ter, STATES EVI­DENCE, with the results in Wis­con­sin & the polls out of Michi­gan you KNOW the GOP will be in charge of Jus­tice, you will never get a bet­ter deal then you can get right now.