[jmstein7]

I'm shocked that nobody on FR saw this and that it managed to escape, under the radar.

Comments, anyone?

[jmstein7]

MemoGate BUMP!!!

I can't believe I didn't catch this article sooner.

[MHGinTN]

Didn't escape freeper notice at all. Do a little homework. 'Obstruction of justice' was raised and debated. Fat Teddy, being a prime partisan democrat, is immune to prosecution because smarmily crying 'foul' will back the Pubbies down nearly every time.

[TomGuy]

And whatever came of the other memo where the Dems were going to continue to attack Bush and Co over Iraq, regardless of the result of the 9-11 Commission report?

It is interesting that the Pubbies don't have the backbone to confront the Dems on the contents of the memos. The contents seem to be overlooked.

[mass55th]

Funny how the left is all up in arms about Cheney's behind-the-door energy policy meetings, making allegations that energy companies are writing the government's policy, yet look at how the Dems allowed the special interest groups to dictate the choosing of judges?

[cgk]

ping...

Not the first time the libs have been caught and tried to shoot the messenger and the message.

[lowbridge]

Since the Democrats -- thus caught with their pants down -- can't very well continue denying that, they've taken their second best option, going into classic damage control mode, pounding their desks and raising a ruckus about "who leaked our secrets."

It worked, didnt it? See the Senate Republican leaders back down, and see the liberal media fail to report the real important story....the contents of the memos. Instead, giving the Dens a helping hand in portraying the Republicans as a bunch of bad guys in all this (example: GOP Aides Implicated In Memo Downloads (washingtonpost.com)).

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Republican leaders have broken a promise they made to expose the shocking contents of memos exchanged among Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats, says Manuel Miranda, the former GOP aide who is the whistleblower at the center of the so-called Memogate scandal.

Miranda told Insight in an exclusive interview that both Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, broke clearly stated promises to expose collusion between top Democrats and special-interest groups seeking to thwart President Bush's nominees to federal courts.

"Sen. Hatch told me specifically, point blank, that if I resigned he could then talk about the substance of the memos," Miranda tells Insight. "I was told by the Frist office that, if I resigned, the Democrats would basically calm down" and the Republicans could make the memos public.

Miranda said the same promises were made to conservative groups that assist the Republicans in gaining support for judicial nominees.

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. The message sent out to the conservative groups was that it had been decided Miranda would resign to allow Republicans to "turn back to the substance of the memos."

The strategist insider told Insight that Miranda in effect became a "scalp" Republicans offered Democrats to make the scandal disappear.

"He's [Hatch] in his last year as chairman of the committee and he wants to enhance the New York Times ... write-up he'll get in history," says the conservative strategist.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1108678/posts