My question is.... Can the author of this article be charged? It has to be extremely dishonest.... Complete defimtion of character... just pure lies. So can anyone be charged?
IANAL, so take this with a grain of salt:
The first issue is that the plaintiff in such a defamation suit would either have to prove damages (for instance, they get fired because of the defamation) or have to demonstrate that the defamation is
libel per se (where damage can just be assumed). In this case, it would be
libel per se if what the man is accused of would not only be a crime, but be a crime of moral turpitude. Again, IANAL, but from the little reading I've done I don't think that it would count as a crime of moral turpitude, so he'd have to prove damages. And since no one of any importance is actually going to believe these accusations, he won't have suffered any damages of the sort that count under defamation laws.
The second issue is if he counts as a public figure for in the context of the bombing. If he does, he'd have to prove that the defendant acted with "actual malice", which to my understanding means that the defendant either knew or suspect what they were saying was false, but said it anyways. But in this case you'd have "defendant is so stupid he actually believes what he says, while for anyone else the person would
have to at least suspect what they were saying was false", and I have no idea how that would play out in relation to the doctrine of actual malice.