I saw this when it was first posted a couple of weeks ago. While interesting, I have some problems with the story as a whole. Whenever dealing with any story, you have to take into account the source and the outlet for the story. 2600 isn't exactly the most un-biased outlet for information that there is (especially when it comes to anything that has to do with the gov't).

That aside, the thing that bothers me most is that to my knowledge, no witnesses to this event have come forward to corroborate Maginnis' story or even say they saw him there. In an age where you can't get a traffic ticket without someone pointing a camera in your direction just in case something might happen, an incident involving the Denver police and Secret Service happens outside what is probably the single largest hotel and resort in Denver, in the middle of downton, and no one seems to have noticed. No other news outlet in the country seems to have even heard of Maginnis. There is no paper trail at the Denver PD. And because, as he says, 'he got his phone call, he tried to call the Denver Post and the police hung the phone up on him' there is no one who can say "Yeah..he called me from jail..." Maybe it's just me, but in that situation I call family or friends and let them know what the heck is going on...but that may just be me.

The last thing that bugs me, and I admit this is a statement with nothing to back it up but my own thoughts ... who in 2002 says things like "dirty pinko faggot"? Just sounds incredibly anachronistic, like something from the 70's or 80's.

Could the whole thing be true? Of course it can. Do I believe it's true, not as it stands. Need a little more than this guy's word. There is one piece of evidence that could help ... the lawyer needs to request the phone logs from the Denver PD for the time that Maginnis says he was in jail as well as the log from the Denver Post. Having the record show a call placed from the holding cells to the Denver Post at that time would immediately move this into the area of a story that needs to be seriously investigated.

-=>Donald