Investigating people on the internet

A friend recently recommended two sites that aggregate information on people whose names you enter at the sites. If you need to investigate someone's background using only the Internet, these are two good places to start. I tried a few searches at Peekyou and Snitchname, and I am rather impressed at the information that can be gathered by these free sites . . .

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Guest sums it up colorfully and the new anchors apologize

Firedoglake's Marcy Wheeler, urging that we should investigate secret operations of the CIA, describes the situation the same way that smart people on the street would describe it. Then, the anchors fall all over themselves allegedly apologizing for Wheeler and allegedly apologizing for themselves. This is pathetically sanctimonious.

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