BUT WAS IT A PROFESSIONAL RESPONSE?
by Sharon Rondeau
(Feb. 7, 2013) — On Thursday morning, The Post & Email was made aware of an article published at a website called Newsdoors.com which stated that “A stunning Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) report on current legislative actions being considered and/or proposed by the individual States in America states that Virginia appears to be close to executing a warrant against President Barack Obama for the crime of “capital murder…”
The Post & Email called the office of Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli, identified itself as media and was directed to the voice mail of media spokesman Brian Gottstein. His voice mail indicated that he would like to communicate via email and divulged his email address. We then sent the following message:
From: Sharon Rondeau
To: Gottstein, Brian J.
Sent: Thu Feb 07 11:25:49 2013
Subject: “REPORT” RE: CHARGES AGAINST OBAMA
Hello, I run an electronic newspaper and am inquiring if the following report, claiming that AG Cuccinelli is planning on charging Barack Hussein Obama with crimes, is accurate: http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2013/02/virginia-set-to-charge-obama-with-death.html
The first paragraph reads:
“A stunning Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA <http://government.ru/eng/power/92/> ) report on current legislative actions being considered and/or proposed by the individual States in America states that Virginia appears to be close to executing a warrant against President Barack Obama for the crime of “capital murder” which carries the death penalty.”
The story has been reproduced in part here: http://giveusliberty1776.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-stunning-ministry-of-foreign-affairs.html
and perhaps other places; I am not sure.
Could I obtain a statement from you on this?
Thank you.
Sharon Rondeau, Editor
The Post & Email
www.thepostemail.com
P.O. Box 195
Stafford Springs, CT 06076
editor@thepostemail.com
to which Gottstein apparently responded:
Are you kidding me?
It’s a totally bogus story somebody wrote from their basement computer.
The email did not contain an electronic signature, title, contact information and government website identification normally found in communications with government agency personnel encountered routinely by this writer.
The following warning then appeared in our email account:
The Post & Email then responded:
I am not kidding. I felt it was a serious issue to bring it to your attention. I would think it is something that you would want to know about. I have followed proper protocol in letting you know.
Sharon Rondeau, Editor
The Post & Email
www.thepostemail.com
to which Gottstein apparently responded:
Thank you for letting me know.
The same warning message appeared at the top of the email.
The first several lines of the email source data reads:
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Authentication-Results: hotmail.com; spf=softfail (sender IP is 159.169.61.51) smtp.mailfrom=BGottstein@oag.state.va.us; dkim=none header.d=oag.state.va.us; x-hmca=fail
X-SID-PRA: BGottstein@oag.state.va.us
X-AUTH-Result: FAIL
X-SID-Result: FAIL
X-Message-Status: n:n
Well, that’s an interesting email header. Not sure what to make of that. And, great fact check on that story Sharon. I’ve been countering that story all day long on facebook as well. The original source of that story is the known disinfo agent, Sorcha Faal. He/she has a website called What Does it Mean. If you ever see that website as the source of an article, you can bet its not true.