Old News but WHOA; "Senate panel's GOP staff pried on Democrats"

[The Cleaner]

Anybody remember this? (from 2004)

Novak again - that bastid...

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...

Democrats now claim their private memos formed the basis for a February 2003 column by conservative pundit Robert Novak that revealed plans pushed by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, to filibuster certain judicial nominees...Citing "internal Senate sources," Novak's column described closed-door Democratic meetings about how to handle nominees.

Its details and direct quotes from Democrats -- characterizing former nominee Miguel Estrada as a "stealth right-wing zealot" and describing the GOP agenda as an "assembly line" for right-wing nominees -- are contained in talking points and meeting accounts from the Democratic files now known to have been compromised. Novak declined to confirm or deny whether his column was based on these files.

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

[Bitwit1234]

1. Or Or Or

where all this information from wiretaps and leaked on purpose.

[myrna minx]

2. From an old post...

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/myrna%20minx/7

Memory Hole: Republican Staffers Hacked Congressional Servers.
Posted by myrna minx in General Discussion
Wed Apr 25th 2007, 11:07 AM
While Republicans whine about the Waxmann subpoenas...


http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/05/... /

Thursday, February 5, 2004 Posted: 9:50 PM EST (0250 GMT)
Frist staffer to resign over memos

WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's key staffers will resign Friday because of an investigation into how Republicans gained access to Democratic memos concerning opposition to President Bush's judicial nominees.


http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles... /

Infiltration of files seen as extensive
Senate panel's GOP staff pried on Democrats
By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | January 22, 2004

WASHINGTON -- Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee 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.


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