[Indy Pendance]

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[anniegetyourgun]

This whole things reminds me of when Mr. Gun toots and tries to blame the stink on the dog.

[Woodman]

All I can say to the dimwitocrats is... RTFM

[hershey]

Why wasn't the Clinton WH's illegal possession of FBI files perceived by the press as a big deal? Never mind. I already know the answer. Besides, every day it was another scandal with that bunch. The press had enough on their hands trying to cover it all up.

[BigSkyFreeper]

The question is, what are the Republicans going to do now? Are they going to allow Orrin Hatch to continue sweeping this under the rug as if this was much ado about nothing? The Republicans accidently stumble on a devious plot concocted by the Democrats and they act like deer staring at the high beamed headlights. The Republicans have the goods on the Democrats, and they should be hitting back at the Democrats, not sweeping this under the rug as if this were much ado about nothing!!

[atomicpossum]

Too funny. The MENSA candidates on Capitol Hill get caught in their own computer illiteracy.

[r9etb]

Hmmmmm .... this is mighty convenient. Has this guy been living in a hole, that it takes a "social meeting of a lawyer" to suddenly remember that he might have some useful information to impart?

What he says is quite probably true -- it's just the circumstances that raise flags for me. The real story is probably that he was afraid he'd get hounded out of a job in the same way Mr. Miranda did.

What would be really funny, would be if they could find evidence that Democrat staffers had gotten into the Republican documents in the same way.....

[ProfoundMan]

I desperately want to believe that the pubbies are moving the "stole it" argument off the table so that they can then concentrate on the investigation of the contents of the memos without interference. A report on that investigation in late September would be handy if it would get coverage. The timing of the "new witness" on Friday before the Monday report release is (optimistically) interesting. Further, the "rat patrol" weeping to the Justice Dept. smells of creating another diversion.

As I've asked before, a guy can dream, can't he?

[hosepipe]

When does the treason part start.?. -or- is the whisle blower going to get himself hung...

[SunkenCiv]

For Patrick "Hatchet Job" Leahy to complain about leaks to the media is truly offensive.

[Bullish]

The real story is what's in the democrat memos, not how they were exposed.

As a Republican I'm real sick and tired of all the statist Rinos who seem to be working with democrats.

[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

[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

[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.

[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.