Report Finds Republican Aides Spied on Democrats

[I AM SPARTACUS]

For 18 months, at least two Republican Senate staff aides engaged in unauthorized and possibly illegal spying by reading Democratic strategy memorandums on a Senate computer system, according to a report released on Thursday by the Senate sergeant-at-arms.

The 65-page report concluded that the two Republican staff aides, both of whom have since departed, improperly read, downloaded and printed as many as 4,670 files concerning the Democrats' tactics in opposing many of President Bush's judicial nominees. The report, the result of an investigation undertaken at the request of the Senate Judiciary Committee, suggested that many other Republican staff aides may have been involved in trafficking in the stolen documents.

"I am mortified that this improper, unethical and simply unacceptable breach of confidential files occurred," Senator Orrin G. Hatch...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/05/politics/05LEAK.html

[youngred]

1. no kidding

:eyes:

[Dogmudgeon]

2. It's nice to see that Orrin has a few scruples left

--bkl

[TreasonousBastard]

3. More than Frist...

who blamed it all on the Democrats for leaving their servers open.

[seemslikeadream]

4. News Conference Leaked Staff Memos C-SPAN

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1195514

[lazarus]

5. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x400322