Partisan Denunciations Fly Over Secret (Dem) Strategy Memos

[DeepModem Mom]

New York Times:

Partisan Denunciations Fly Over Secret Strategy Memos
By NEIL A. LEWIS

Published: February 16, 2004


WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 — Democrats and Republicans in the Senate have been matching each other with nasty accusations for well over two years in the debate over the treatment of Bush administration judicial candidates.

But the Democrats have now confidently gathered in a herd on the moral high ground over disclosures that some Republican staff aides had improperly obtained confidential strategy memorandums from a Senate computer. The Senate sergeant-at-arms, who is nearing the end of an investigation into the tampering, told senators last week that the Republican staff members' activities went on much longer and were far more extensive than previously believed.

They spanned more than two years and involved conscious computer hacking as some 3,000 Democratic documents were secretly downloaded, read and distributed by some number of Republican aides, said people who attended the briefings. No evidence that senators were involved has surfaced.

When the Judiciary Committee convened Thursday for the first time since the new disclosures, Democratic senators were present in full force to denounced the spying, saying it was a violation of both the criminal code and the unwritten rules of political behavior in the Senate under which the two parties get along.


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/16/politics/16TALK.html


The article quotes Senator Leahy as observing that the only Republican Senator who apologized was Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch, and adds that Senators Kyl of Arizona and Graham of South Carolina agreed that "what had happened was terribly wrong." Some Republicans, confronted with the charges, responded by "quietly slipping out of the room." "Most unrepentant," according to the article, was Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania.

[Florida_Geek]

1. Let's talk kiddie porn and tech support

No matter what party the tech support ppl belong to, they can "help" their party by copying and examining the hard drives of the other party. They could help by ADDING KP to somebodies hard drive they want attacked.

Both Parties need their own ppl in these positions.

[damnraddem]

2. Sen. Sanctimonius is only concerned with 'real' morality ...

that is, whatever suits his purposes.

[demdave]

3. Is there a link that I can read these documents?

[central scrutinizer]

4. santorum has been google bombed

type in santorum, and "I'm feeling lucky"

[neverforget]

5. "No evidence that Senators were involved has surfaced" Uh huh.

The "aides" were stealing the memos for the hell of it and were just giving them to the press not to the senators. So the Senators had no use for these memos? If they didn't use them, then why were they stolen?