Four Senate Judiciary Computer Servers Seized In Memos Probe

Drudge Report ^ | Mon Nov 24 2003 09:49:17 ET

[Brian Mosely]

Four Senate Judiciary Computer Servers Seized In Memos Probe

Mon Nov 24 2003 09:49:17 ET

The Senate Sergeant-at-Arms took possession of the Judiciary Committee's four computer servers Friday and formally opened an investigation into how more than a dozen memos written by two Democratic Senators ended up in the hands of a pair of newspapers, ROLL CALL is reporting.

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Democrats suspect the memos, which detailed political strategy on how to block or delay confirmation of several of President Bush's judicial nominees, were stolen from the servers and subsequently given to The Wall Street Journal editorial page and The Washington Times.

Both newspapers published excerpts of the memos.

Sergeant-at-Arms Bill Pickle said the four servers and computer backup tapes would be examined by an 'outside forensic team' to see if the memos were in fact stolen from the server. The Capitol Police secured the backup tapes last Monday at the request of the Judiciary Committee leadership after Democrats called for an investigation into their alleged theft."

Pickle, "the chief law enforcement official in the Senate, said he received a bipartisan directive from Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D- S.D.), Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), and the panel's ranking member, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), to launch the investigation. ...

Pickle said he is not sure how long the investigation would take, but noted it would include using both the private forensic experts as well as internal resources to determine if the memos written to Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) by their respective staffs were stolen."

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[Lee'sGhost]

"Where is that here?"

This is just Drudge giving the down and dirty. The lib whine will come tonight on the alphabet channels and in tomorrow's Wash Post and NY Times.

[lelio]

I understand that part .. I meant, someone could have made a copy of the hard copy memo that was rec'd/sent

Maybe they have auditing in place so that they can see who accessed the memos and then ask them about it.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Ping!

[mewzilla]

Gee, I notice the Intell Committee doesn't seem to be this anal about whom leaked that memo...

[huck von finn]

Every indication?

I don't like this at all.

[jmstein7]

Concerned? Then go to www.intelmemo.com , read about the issue, and take action.

[an amused spectator]

Major John Andre Illegally Detained?

Senate Democrats today demanded an investigation into the arrest and detention of Major John Andre, a private citizen who is alleged by arch-conservative right-wing "patriots" to be a member of His Majesty's armed forces.

"All we want to know is, was Major Andre properly informed of his Miranda rights?", said Senator Little Tommy today. "There is a suspicion that the overzealous rabble who detained poor Mr. Andre stole certain personal papers and released them without his permission."

Senator Devil Hilly agreed, saying that "At the very least, Major Andre's copyrights on his private papers may have been violated. The committee is intent on pursuing the perpetrators of this outrage."

Chief Fop Terry McAwful promised a full-scale ad campaign to reveal the insidious abuses of the Patriot Act by the Washington Administration.

[doug from upland]

Lesson: you are in big trouble if you warn the country about DemocRAT treason.

[huck von finn]

What are the indications that a Dem staffer leaked? I don't understand this. I hope you are not taking the word of one talking head; that would be a mistake.

Journalists lie to cover their backsides all the time.

[StriperSniper]

PING!

Matt listens to you! ;-)

He has broken the embargo, not quite the way we would like, but it is a start. I haven't got to what we talked about last night yet, when I do, I'll let you know. :)

[eureka!]

Thanks for the link. Oh, to have a press that took offense at the bare politics of the Rat party...

[Mo1]

Maybe they have auditing in place so that they can see who accessed the memos and then ask them about it.

In the Senate???

[Redbob]

Somebody's sure in a 'Pickle' now!

[cyborg]

Well it's about TIME...lol Matt must be busy digging up other stuff. Good job on that Bin Laden Somalia Part 2 photo though. It was on front of cover of NY Daily News today.

[StriperSniper]

Good job on that Bin Laden Somalia Part 2 photo though. It was on front of cover of NY Daily News today.

I haven't seen it yet, but it was Matt blazing the trail that I'm sure helped with their decision. We must keep pushing to get the message out to the sheeple.

about TIME

That was a good job on their poll last night, huh? ;-)

[suzyq5558]

TADA!
why arnt the real culprit's being investagated? inquiring minds really want to know.....

[Xthe17th]

Sergeant-at-Arms Bill Pickle

THE MOTORCYCLE SONG - words and music by Arlo Guthrie

CHORUS:
I don't want a pickle
Just want to [to see John Kerry] ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want a tickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on [John Kerry's] my motorsickle
And I don't want to die
Just want to ride on [John Kerry's] my motorcy...cle

It was late last night the other day
I thought I'd stay up and see Jay (Leno)
So I stayed up and I saw Jay
There was only one thing Jay could say, was:

CHORUS

This song is about the time that John Kerry was ridin' his motorcycle.
Going down a mountain road, at 150 miles an hour, playin'
his guitar. On one side of the mountain road there was a
mountain, and on the other side there was nothin' - there was
a cliff in the air.

Now, when you're going down a mountain road at I50 miles
an hour you gotta be very careful, especially if John Kerry's playin'
a guitar. Especially if that guitar is an acoustic guitar.
Because if it's an acoustic guitar, the wind pressure is greater
on the box side than on the neck side, because there's
more guitar on the box side. I wasn't payin' attention ...

Luckily Ketchup Boy didn't go into the mountain - He went over the cliff.
He was goin' at 150 miles an hour sideways and 500 feet down
at the same time.

I knew it was the end. I looked down, I said ''Wow! Some
trip". I thought it...well I knew it was...I knew it was my last
trip, and in my last remaining seconds in world,I decided
to write one last farewell song to the world.

Put a new ink cartridge in my pen. Took out a piece of paper.
I sat back and I thought awhile. Then I started writin':
I don't want a pickle
Just want to ride on John Heinz Kerry's motorsickle
And I don't want a tickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on Lurch's motorsickle

And I don't want to die
Just want to ride on my motorcy ...cle."

I knew that, it wasn't the best song l ever wrote, but I didn't
have time to change it. I was comin' down mighty fast.

But as you all know, and as fate would have it, I didn't die. I
landed on the top of a police car. And he died. I drove away
on the road that he was on. I came into town at a screamin'
175 miles an hour, playin' the motorcycle song.

Lurch came into town, he jumped off his bike, the bike went around
the corner by itself, went up on the stand by itself, turned
itself off.

I walked over to my friend. He was standin' there eatin'
pickles. I said "Hi, what's happenin'?" He looked at me in the
eyes and said "Nothin'".

You gotta sing it with that kind of enthusiasm. Like you just
squashed a cop...

CHORUS

[mrobison]

Please tell me the Senate's chief law enforcement officer isn't really named Pickle.

[Pagey]

"the chief law enforcement official in the Senate, said he received a bipartisan directive from Majority Leader Bill Frist Minority Leader Tom Daschle Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch, and the panel's ranking member, Sen. Patrick Leahy , to launch the investigation...."

How completely laughable and totally farcical is that?Hatch, Daschle and Leahy launch an investigation? How about this instead: Let's talk about the demoncrats malicious intent to disrupt the Judicial process in the USA. All I'm asking is for just one alphabet channel to do a story about that issue. In some other lifetime perhaps.

[Political Junkie Too]

What a difference a year makes.

-PJ