have access to that office and its computers, yet so far the senator and his staff remain silent on who was there and who the culprit likely was. they turned the investigation over to others and are refusing to make any more comments. the posts was made on the day chambliss was voting on don t ask don t tell policy. it said, all you can figure out the word for yourself must die. the name of the poster was jimmy. it was posted on a gay oriented website called joe my god. you might say it takes a lot of time to track something like this, but the truth is it doesn t. the website owner quickly asked its computer savvy readers to trace the message. i want to take you over to the wall here to show you how they did it. frankly, i didn t even know this was possible. in leaving that threat the person in the senator s office probably didn t know the website recorded the ip address of his or her computer. it turns out every computer on the web has an ip address. they re unique, and just about
they turned the investigation over to others and are refusing to make any more comments. the posts was made on the day chambliss was voting on don t ask don t tell policy. it said, all you can figure out the word for yourself must die. the name of the poster was jimmy. it was posted on a gay oriented website called joe my god. you might say it takes a lot of time to track something like this, but the truth is it doesn t. the website owner quickly asked its computer savvy readers to trace the message. i want to take you over to the wall here to show you how they did it. frankly, i didn t even know this was possible. in leaving that threat the person in the senator s office probably didn t know the website recorded the ip address of his or her computer. it turns out every computer on the web has an ip address. they re unique, and just about anyone can trace them if you go to a website like this one and plug in the ip address. in this case the ip address, right up here, it was 1563320
horror. family held hostage and assaulted and killed, all the while the alleged murderers were texting each other, talking about champing at the bit to do the crime. tonight you ll see their texts. we begin keeping them honest as we always do with an internet slur and death threat sent from the office of a u.s. senator. our question tonight, why is it taking so long to figure out who sent it? the senator is saxby chambliss, republican of georgia. the staff admits the threat came from someone in his office. his office condemn it s and promises to hold the guilty party accountable. but it s been nearly four days. four days, it took just a few hours to trace it to a computer at the senator s atlanta area office. only a limited number of people have access to that office and its computers, yet so far the senator and his staff remain silent on who was there and who the culprit likely was. in turn, the investigate over to others and refusing to make any more comments. the posts was made on