Outed! Senate staffers, anti-gay slurs, and IP addresses "Will they never learn? It has been more than four years—a geologic era in Internet time—since Wikipedia investigated Congressional staffers for mucking about with politicians' entries on the site."
"But someone in Sen. Saxby Chambliss' (R-GA) office didn't get the memo. In the aftermath of this week's failed vote on the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, someone named "Jimmy" registered an account at the gay news blog Joe.My.God. just to say, "All Faggots must die." Your standard Internet troll? Not exactly, since in this case the site's operator, Joe, posted Jimmy's IP address, and it wasn't long before it was resolved back to Chambliss' office (and it appears to be a district office back home in Georgia). At that point, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution swung into action, snagging the confirmation from Chambliss' office that "it was indeed the source of a highly publicized homosexual-bashing slur on an Internet site" and that "it has not discovered exactly who was behind the slur, and has turned the matter over to the Senate Sergeant At Arms.""
Idiots. On so many levels.
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