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Secret Service investigates Web site that posted the names of GOP delegates

A Carnegie Mellon University student who is webmaster for a site that posted the names of delegates to the Republican National Convention is a subject of criminal investigation by the Secret Service into voter intimidation.  . Matt Toups, 22, is one of the four administrators ofwww.indymedia.org, a Web site of the Independent Media Center, a collective of media organizations and journalists. There are more than 100 member centers throughout the world, including Pittsburgh and New York. On Aug. 18, an anonymous poster tonyc.indymedia.org published the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of 1,600 delegates to the Republican National Convention in New York City along with a message for anti-RNC groups to use the information "in whatever way they see fit." [more ]