When I was filling in the tags, I realized that there really is nothing this story is missing. First, it has Dan Noyes:

But, from reading the twelve hundred page final report from the internal affairs investigation into the video and the officers behind it, it turns out [San Francisco Police Officers Association President Gary] Delagnes was the one who blew the whistle on the officers involved in the video.

Noyes has been all over the $20 lawsuit from the cops who took the fall:

Waukeen McCoy wants to depose the mayor about his admitted alcohol abuse that came to light in January during the City Hall sex scandal. The attorney says he also wants to question Newsom under oath and on camera about cocaine use, and release the tapes to the public.

When the cops dropped their youtube attack ad I figured this might get interesting, but the more that comes out the crazier the whole thing gets. In other news, in conjunction with Chris Daly’s Convention, there will be an entire Film Festival for youtube hit jobs against the mayor.

UPDATE II: Well, the GavinWatch site is back and they say that “We want to make it clear that everything you’ve heard and read is not true and we’re deeply sorry about that.”  Crazy stuff yo.

UPDATE: The story has now disappeared.  Fog City Journal is apparently having problems with their reliability.  I think what’s also important to note is that the original message accused nobody, and I don’t think it should be attributed to anybody.  It could be just run of the mill hackers, or well, who the F*** knows? But, where GavinWatch went is still a mystery. So, this “press release” is allegedly from the GavinWatch people, but who knows?

  GavinWatch, a blog watching the Newsom administration has allegedly been hacked.  The following is a press release that appears on Fog City Journal:

Political watchblog GavinWatch.com were the victims of an apparent politically-motivated security intrusion during the early hours of Saturday morning.
Multiple passwords on multiple websites were compromised when the as-yet-unidentified intruders took down all of GavinWatch’s internet properties.
Blog posts critical of Mayor Gavin Newsom’s administration were wiped clean from the free hosting service Blogger. Original news videos chronicling Newsom spokesman Peter Ragone’s recent missteps in the media were deleted from GavinWatch’s free YouTube account.
Access to GavinWatch’s free Gmail account was also removed. Blogger, YouTube, and Gmail are all services owned by Google, a known political ally of Mayor Newsom and a favored vendor for exclusive development of the City’s municipal wireless internet.
No hacking group has taken responsibility for the violation of GavinWatch’s constitutionally protected 1st amendment right to free speech and freedom of the press. Removal of political watchblogs constitute a full-frontal assault on political speech over the internet, especially in San Francisco where there is a thriving online political community.
There is no word yet of police involvement in this investigation.
Speculation as to sniffing of wireless packets at City Hall is premature at this juncture.
GavinWatch spokespeople recommend that everybody participating in San Francisco’s online political communities take this incident as a warning to change their passwords
  NOW.