[Politico2]

How come I'm not surprised...

[Coop]

Hmmmm. I'm quite surprised that they're publicly admitting to this mess. And, as the article points out, they're leaving some obvious questions unanswered. That probably means this story has legs.

I wonder if this just made IA quite competitive?

[Iowa Granny]

I just "tried" to post the Register article on this. I see the AP article is somewhat different. Sorry for the duplication.

Who says Iowa politics is boring?

[xJones]

``Clearly a very serious breach of privacy has occurred,'' state GOP Chairman Chuck Larson Jr. said. ``Someone was either wearing a wire in that room or the room was bugged.''

Larson said a probe is needed because state and federal law prohibit unauthorized taping of meetings. He said releasing the transcript would be illegal even if a participant had taped the meeting because the campaign had not authorized it.

Wonderful! Either there's a traitor who committed an illegal act for Harkin OR Harkin's team did some illegal bugging. Now........please, please, just this once, guys, act like Demos, play hardball and do something with this. Smear Harkin to the max, he'd do it to you if he could.