Posted on 01/22/2004 1:41:33 PM PST by braun
Edited on 01/22/2004 1:58:35 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
"WASHINGTON -- 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.
The office of Senate Sergeant-at-Arms William Pickle has already launched an investigation into how excerpts from 15 Democratic memos showed up in the pages of the conservative-leaning newspapers and were posted to a website last November.
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."
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
...and write it down and leave it for us to read, it is our duty to inform the public of it. Case closed.
You are missing my point. It is not a question of whether or not the opposition respects us. It is a question of whether or not the VOTERS respect us. If we fight hard and fair, with repect for our opposition, even when they behave in less that respectable ways, then hopefully the voting public will see that we live up to a higher standard than the Democrats, and will reward us with their votes. That's my point.
Look, if you want to play crackback politics all the time, be my guest. Just don't complain when the number of people who turn out to vote drop to all-time lows, and when a majority of people come to the opinion that politicians are unprincipled SOB's who will do anything to win, and when you try to explain why you are different than the opposition the voters laugh in your face.
The voters respect the truth, let's make sure we give it to them. It is unfortunate that the other side works very hard to conceal the truth.
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