Senate Panel's GOP staff pried on Democrats - Infiltration

[bleedingheart]

"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."


This smells like Watergate to me.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Any way we can indict the whole GOP?

The whole mob sounds more criminal every day.

[remfan]

2. Link?

I'd love to see a certain squeaky voiced repug forced to resign over this...

[gristy]

3. There's a couple important questions, I think:

GOP committee staff exploited a computer glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic communications without a password

Did the people accessing these memos know that the memos were password protected? Did they take active steps to bypass the passwords? If either answer is yes (though two are even more damning), then a criminal investigation is clearly warranted.

But, as a general rule, I've given up holding my breath w.r.t. this admin. I would just keep passing out.

This story is familiar. Isn't it about 2 months old? Maybe this is a new report.

[whatelseisnew]

4. duplicate thread

this one was a minute ahead of you

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=325175