Leader of Sotomayor attack is same thug nailed for spying on Dems

[deminks]

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/senate-republicans/le... /


The New York Times reports that a coalition of heavyweight conservative groups has signed a letter pressuring Senate Republicans to filibuster Sonia Sotomayor. The organizer of the pressure campaign — which has angered Senate GOP leaders — is identified as one Manuel Miranda, whom the paper only describes as a “former adviser on judicial issues to former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.”

There’s a bit more to Manuel Miranda than that, however. Miranda, as longtime Congressional insiders will recall, was the GOP Senate staffer who was nailed in 2004 for hacking into the computers of Senate Dems and downloading thousands of documents relating to the strategies of Dem Senators on judicial nominations.

Miranda’s scheme — widely referred to as “Memogate” — was a big deal. A Senate probe found that many of the swiped files had been systematically downloaded “from folders belonging to Democratic staff,” with some leaked to friendly reporters. Miranda resigned, and a Washington Post editorial denounced his “political spying operation” that indicated “how low the nominations process has sunk.”

Miranda’s operation opened a rift between Republicans and conservatives. While some GOP Senators denounced the effort — Orrin Hatch pronounced himself “mortified” — conservative groups on a war footing over judicial nominations rushed to defend him.


via Raw Story
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/06/sotomayor-miranda-stol... /

[Joe Chi Minh]

1. Well, you've got to admit, not being an autistic wasp is hardly a

recommendation for the bench of the Supreme Court.

[Wednesdays]

2. K&R

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3. K&R