Infiltration of Files Extensive (GOP thievery)

[Loonman]

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/01/22/infiltration_of_files_seen_as_extensive?mode=PF

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.

But the scope of both the intrusions and the likely disclosures is now known to have been far more extensive than the November incident, staffers and others familiar with the investigation say.



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Ka-pow!

Republican bastards.

Hannity should go to jail, too.

[DUreader]

1. This is in LBN too

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

[Stephanie]

2. The Thief Blames the DEMS

" Hatch also said that a "former member of the Judiciary staff may have been involved." Many news reports have subsequently identified that person as Manuel Miranda, who formerly worked in the Judiciary Committee office and now is the chief judicial nominee adviser in the Senate majority leader's office. His computer hard drive name was stamped on an e-mail from the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League that was posted along with the Democratic Senate staff communications.

Reached at home, Miranda said he is on paternity leave; Frist's office said he is on leave "pending the results of the investigation" -- he denied that any of the handwritten comments on the memos were by his hand and said he did not distribute the memos to the media. He also argued that the only wrongdoing was on the part of the Democrats -- both for the content of their memos, and for their negligence in placing them where they could be seen.

"There appears to have been no hacking, no stealing, and no violation of any Senate rule," Miranda said. "Stealing assumes a property right and there is no property right to a government document. . . . These documents are not covered under the Senate disclosure rule because they are not official business and, to the extent they were disclosed, they were disclosed inadvertently by negligent staff."

[Loonman]

3. Repubs are liars, thieves, and responsibility dodgers

Completely useless as a party and ideology.

[RC]

4. I wonder what Miranda's lyrics would be

if the situation were reversed. I can Imagen something about federal laws broken, ethics investagation...

[beaconess]

5. Isn't it interesting that a lott of Novak's material seems to be stolen

or illegally leaked?

Why is he still a network fixture?

[Loonman]

6. GOP pays off Wolf Blitzer every week

Probably.

[Rockholm]

7. Can ANY of this been used for Impeachment...

or treason? This smacks of Watergate. And suprise, NOTHING on the television news this morning. However, Good Morning 'Merica can spend almost 10 minutes with some hillbilly who fell in a sinkhole with her dog. Pathetic.

[Rockholm]

9. Make that "Be" used for impeachment...

"Recovering Southerner" here.

[snippy]

8. The republican party is a criminal enterprise.