‘Memogate’ report delayed as new witness steps forward

The Hill ^ | 3-1-04 | Alexander Bolton

[jmstein7]

"The probe’s latest turn seems to reflect concerns voiced by Senate Democrats over the administration’s level of involvement in what some Democrats now refer to as 'Memogate.'"

Uh... no. *I* coined the term "memo-gate", and it refers to the *substance* of those democrat memos.

[GEC]

Is this what they mean when they say they have an "intern problem"?

Miranda has rights and should be reinstated immediately.

[Waco]

The house and senate could have been operating separate conputers for each party all along. Politics being what it is, why didn't they? I guess the "independant" member would get access to both systems, gratis the RATS, so he could scrounge for the RATS.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - demoRATS caught in the trap

[CyberAnt]

You got that right!

I loved the statement .. "contained folders belonging to Judiciary staff, from what I could tell, of both Republicans and Democrats". Which means that the DEMOCRATS were reading all the repub memos and they have been lying about it all this time, trying to get people to believe that the dems HAD NO ACCESS TO REPUB STUFF.

I hope it hits the fan tomorrow!!

[WOSG]

“In little time, I became aware that by clicking onto the icon ‘My Network Places’ followed, as I recall, by the icon ‘Network Connections,’ one could, intentionally or unintentionally, enter a panel that contained folders belonging to Judiciary staff, from what I could tell, of both Republicans and Democrats. I made this discovery quite easily while searching for the shared network for constituent letter models."

I have an idea for a cute graphic that a Freeper could make out of this...

I am imagining a Microsoft style menu under the Network Places, and it has folder icons in the directory labelled:

• Democrat Judiciary:
  • Court packing plan
  • FilibusterStrategy.doc
  • Plans Against CIA and Bush White House
  • Ted Kennedy Scandal File - Top Secret, do not open
  • Names to call Minority Conservatives
• Hillary's Home
  • Rose law firm records
  • FBI files on opponents
  • Chinese (money) Laundry
  • Living History Notes
  • Whitewater
  • Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

[ConservativeGadfly]

That's the thing, r9etb. Dems DID have access to the Repubs memos. There is a Reuters quote I'm looking for now that I noted had Senator Daschle admitting that yes, indeedy, they had access to Republican materials.

A mere blip on the radar screen though, apparently. What do we hear about that statement? Nothing, zip, nada. Crickets.

[ConservativeGadfly]

Link to the post with the actual statement from Manuel Miranda:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1088855/posts

[hocndoc]

What is controversial is not the nominations of the President, it's the tactics of the President's opponents, and their smears of the nominees and conspiracy to capitalize on their own smears. All of which were documented in poorly protected files.

[ConservativeGadfly]

PING!

[prognostigaator]

very good

[abner]

Amazing stuff.

[GraceCoolidge]

Another poster on this topic had a great point: he said why should the Democrats be trusted with national security if they can't even protect their own memos? Of course, it turns out the Republicans may not have been much better!

[KenD]

True, but perhaps the Republicans had nothing to hide in the first place.

[Future Useless Eater]

Computers are almost NEVER secure.

I'll bet the Senate's firewalls were so porous that even
the intelligence agencies of Red China have no trouble
browsing whatever files they please.

And I'll bet many of those computers have also picked up
a few trojan horses that occasionally 'phone home' with
juicy information.

You can thank Bill Gates for creating an operating system
that is so prone to spying.