| Brace yourselves, folks, the Hardin Jail story is about to go viral - again.
The first time it happened was when the city offered to put up Gitmo detainees.
This time it's the American Police Force story. First it hit TPM Muckracker, with commentary from Josh Marshall. Wonkette and Malkin picked it up. Which means this is only about 16 hours from becoming a joke on Leno and Letterman.
Gawker got into the story, and revealed this:
Muckraker Kevin Flaherty, however, discovered that APF's website shares an IP address with Defense Product Solutions, which was founded in 2004, has contracts in the Middle East and works with a man named Edward Angelino, who in turn has worked with the militarily-inclined Allied Defense Systems, Inc. and Defense Consulting Group, Inc.
Apparently some weird conspiracy theories have been making the rounds on rightwing blogs, the tastiest one was that the APF is conducting H1N1 experiments, and is using the jail for quarantine purposes. (Probably not true.)
Of course, I've been writing about the Hardin Jail since the old days...
I have to hand it to Hardin officials, they sure know how to win publicity... |
