GOP Thieves in Congress
The Boston Globe's shocking story exposes a GOP plan that dwarfs the significance of Watergate:
Josh Marshall is already all over this one. Dean needs to be on the case with this story. It's powerful ammunition. IT's exactly what the voters need to hear, and the debate is likely the only way to inject teh story into the media spotlight. I castigated Dean for not following through on the Plame affair and remain disappointed. I hope that he runs wit this new ball more efectively - and doing so will prove to NH voters that he is serious about exposing the President and the GOP for what they are.
Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing on copies to the media, Senate officials told The Globe.
From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003, members of the GOP committee staff exploited a computer glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic communications without a password. Trolling through hundreds of memos, they were able to read talking points and accounts of private meetings discussing which judicial nominees Democrats would fight -- and with what tactics.
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With the help of forensic computer experts from General Dynamics and the US Secret Service, his office has interviewed about 120 people to date and seized more than half a dozen computers -- including four Judiciary servers, one server from the office of Senate majority leader Bill Frist of Tennessee, and several desktop hard drives.
Josh Marshall is already all over this one. Dean needs to be on the case with this story. It's powerful ammunition. IT's exactly what the voters need to hear, and the debate is likely the only way to inject teh story into the media spotlight. I castigated Dean for not following through on the Plame affair and remain disappointed. I hope that he runs wit this new ball more efectively - and doing so will prove to NH voters that he is serious about exposing the President and the GOP for what they are.
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