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GOP Staffer Suspended for Computer Improprieties
Special Report
| 11/25/03
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Posted on 11/25/2003 4:00:07 PM PST by dep
A Republican Senate Judiciary Committee staff member has been suspended with pay after he admitted that he improperly gained access to "secure committee computers," Fox News Channel reports.
Whether the staffer is the person who leaked numerous memos in which Democrats on the committee plotted to turn toe current filibuster of judicial nominees for political advantage was not stated.
An angry Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch denounced the staffer's action, saying that senators expect their computers to be secure and calling the staffer's action "entirely unacceptable."
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004memo; democrats; doublestandard; estradamemo; govtemployees; hypocrisy; iraqicivilians; judiciarycommittee; mediabias; memogate; memogate2; obstruction; orrinhatch; partisanpolitics; whichmemogateisthis
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To: cantfindagoodscreenname
Gee, why no witch hunt for the intell committee's leaker? Inquiring minds want to know...
To: dep
Isn't there something in the oath about, "...All enemies, both Foreign and DOMESTIC?"
Since most of the Democrap members of Congress are TERORIST SUPPORTERS, they are DOMESTIC ENEMIES!
To: dep
Looks like a moral dilemma to me.
Scumbags are doing rotten things and hiding it.
You can't expose them without acting unethically.
What to do?
A person could argue that there's nothing unethical in violating the privacy of a wrongdoer for the purpose of exposing his wrongdoing.
If I had Bill Gates's money, every scumocrat in America would wake up tomorrow to find complete copies of their hard disks circulating on the Internet.
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posted on
11/26/2003 4:42:17 AM PST
by
dsc
To: dep
I thought we taught our VRW Conspirators better than to get caught at these things. Someone's gotta go back to Sneaky101!
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posted on
11/26/2003 5:46:48 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Liberals can sugarcoat sh** all they want. I'm not biting.)
To: Wolfstar
And if a Dem did that to the Pubs, would you still say he or she was a hero?
To: dep
OK now I'm PI$$ed! Let's see, hmmm the GOP stole the memos so the content of said memos is to be ignored. Am I correct?
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posted on
11/26/2003 5:49:36 AM PST
by
BiteMedems
(Proud Voter of GWB)
To: cantfindagoodscreenname
I could use a forum for "FReeper Dumbies" myself...
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posted on
11/26/2003 5:50:55 AM PST
by
tubebender
(FReeRepublic...How bad have you got it...)
To: Doctor Raoul
This story talks about the Judiciay Committee, not the Intelligence CommitteeBingo!
The Dems will use this feigned outrage to confuse the issue of the memo from the Intelligence Committee. Pretty soon the story will be so confusing, everybody (including reporters) will tune it out and say "everybody's at fault, let's forget it"!
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posted on
11/26/2003 6:13:41 AM PST
by
Gritty
("Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private virtue" - John Adams)
To: BiteMedems
"OK now I'm PI$$ed! Let's see, hmmm the GOP stole the memos so the content of said memos is to be ignored. Am I correct?"
I think you are. Stolen property will always bear the taint of being stolen - you can't wash it away with the old "ends justify the means" argument. If you support lawbreaking to gain political points you lose any right to be upset when others ignore your cries for "justice".
Do you support law & order? Or, are you willing to cast aside all values to garner a "win"? Making deals with the devil usually means there will be a price to pay later. Who will pick up the tab when the bill comes due?
Winning is great, but if you have to cheat (rob, lie, cheat, steal..) the victory will allways be tainted. If the conservative agenda needs low morals to win - maybe it's time to check the rule book.
To: dep
SO WHAT!NO BIG DEAL.Why should it always be republicans having to pay a price when democrats lie,deny and defy?H*ll,forget about it!!!
To: dep
I wonder how much porn and other damning evidence this guy found....
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posted on
11/26/2003 6:57:45 AM PST
by
Solson
(Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. - Von Goethe)
To: MJY1288; mhking; Poohbah
We got upset over the Anita Hill leak, and to be very honest, I do NOT like the notion of descending to the Rats level.
I'd keep it at a suspension with pay, but I'd offer the Rats a deal: IMMEDIATE confirmation of Brown, Owen, and the other filibustered nominees and an end to filibusters through President Bush's tenure in office in return for the firing AND BLACKLISTING (he'll never work for a Republican Senator again) of the suspended staffer.
If they refuse, the staffer returns to work, and just might get a promotion.
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posted on
11/26/2003 7:05:09 AM PST
by
hchutch
("I don't see what the big deal is, I really don't." - Major Vic Deakins, USAF (ret.))
To: Pukin Dog; dubyaismypresident
Looks like a great setup by the Democrats. They have the moral highground now regarding leaked memos, and the Republicans look like saps. Thats 180 degrees. They cant take the Moral High ground without having to address the substance, and the staffer is suspended with pay, until someone else can give him a job....I would say that is pretty nice work by our side, exposing them to the extent that the media will let it happen, and quietly taking care of the guy that did it.
I would also bet that this staffer was more likely than not in a position to be moving on to a different job anyway....
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posted on
11/26/2003 7:19:19 AM PST
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: Pukin Dog
The problem is that this allows the Democrats to frame the Republicans as willing to do anything to win, and to compare this to the Plumbers with Watergate They cant. One of the memoes that would invariably come up in that discussion is the seeking of an IC to coincide with the election....
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posted on
11/26/2003 7:20:21 AM PST
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: familyofman
Thanks, I lost my head there for a minute. The last thing I want is a victory by cheating.
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posted on
11/26/2003 7:41:27 AM PST
by
BiteMedems
(Proud Voter of GWB)
To: Enterprise
Whenever the name "Orrin G. Hatch" comes up, it always reminds me of August 1998, when Hatch "begged" Bill Clinton to "come clean" on Monica. Needless to say, Clinton was laughing in Hatch's face!
To: Theodore R.
It shows me how truly naive Hatch is. He is symptomatic of other leaders who don't understand the nature of the Democrats, specifically, Clinton. Truly sad.
To: dep
His PC was not PC enough because it had "master and slave" drives?
(this was a real story on Fox News out of LA last night)
To: Enterprise
Really though, Enterprise, how could Orrin G. Hatch, who has been in the Senate for just a month short of 27 years, NOT understand the operational mode and INTENT of the Democrats. They shove "it" in his face day after day. This must me a conditon beyond naivete, almost a morbid misunderstanding of the enemy. Correction, not "enemy" but what Jack Kemp calls "our liberal friends." I don't understand UT voters. They seem to think Hatch is more than "fine."
To: Theodore R.
Well, I think morbid is a good term here. It is like someone kicking you in the groin and laughing, and you say he is your friend, he's just having a little fun. The policies of the Democrats have hurt this country over the years. An intelligent politician would have recognized this a long time ago and stopped referring to these people as "friends."
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