Should Dem Senators Have their offices SWEPT

[rsmith6621]

Poll question: Should Dem Senators Have their offices SWEPT

For wiretaps and bugs to be sure that the Nerve Gas Alert was legit......

[Babel_17]

1. Huh, I'd forgotten about that angle

Hopefully they have access to the right people in the intelligence community.

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodiet" Who watches the watchmen?

And one more thing, they'd better have their computers checked.

[Drum]

2. for real!! nt

[Pirate Smile]

3. They need to be worried about their computers. We already know

their computers were spied on.

edit to add an article:

"Infiltration of files seen as extensive
Senate panel's GOP staff pried on Democrats

By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff, 1/22/2004

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.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/01/22/infiltration_of_files_seen_as_extensive/

[punpirate]

4. Yeah, but not because of some bogus...

... alarm.

Sweep their offices and phones, weekly. PGP on the email, invisible firewalls on the computers. The works. While the `pugs are busy chastizing their staffers for bare midriffs on web diaries, the Dems had better get their act together and get down to business.

If they find any, keep `em there and, as Ralph Abernathy said, "preach to the little doohickey."

[AndyA]

5. The Democrats need to be on High Alert

Checking offices, phones, computers, everything.

They know the enemy within is listening and watching. You can't win if the enemy knows the plan. They need to be on lock down to prevent outsiders from accessing confidential data.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. Don't bother.

If they want to intercept your communications they do not have to plant bugs in your offices. This is not the 70's anymore. At this point they merely have to go digging in the NSA database. Get a clue. Welcome to the modern totalitarianism.