C-Span: Roll Call's Currin says: Thousands of Documents stolen from Dems

[KoKo]

in the "Computergate" crime in the Senate. He said Miranda the guy whom Frist dismissed said there were thousands of memo's that were leaked and one of the aides was going to write a book on influence of groups trying to force filibusters of the Judges. Currin made it sound like it was the Dems fault rather than an "illegal break-in" to steal Democratic Memo's from a server that was to be shared.

I think this is criminal. Wonder if anything will be done about this...like proscecution and jailtime for those who were involved in this. This is something Daschle should be all over but it seems quiet.Anyway, here's a short blurb from Roll Call. Unfortunately you have to be a subscriber to read the whole thing.

Roll Call blurb:

‘Thousands’ of Judiciary Memos Taken
February 9, 2004
As Senate Democrats vowed to keep up the fight over the Judiciary Committee’s leaked memo probe, the central figure in the investigation now says “thousands” of documents from the minority were likely downloaded by an ambitious young GOP staffer.

[DiverDave]

1. Lets see

They hack and steal documents, and then THEY take the high ground.
This is just like someone stealing your car, only to find some pot, then they go to the cops and report YOU.
But I forgot, this is from the party of "personal responsibility"
The "law and order" party, the "good guys"

Makes me wanna HURL.

[59millionmorons]

2. Hannity

We now know how Hannity always had these inside info, which he say's he cannot reveal his resources.

[colonel odis]

5. can't hannity be made to reveal his sources?

he's not a journalist, by any stretch of the imagination.

he's an entertainer, and a bad one at that. so would first amendment protections extend to him?

[randr]

3. I quess Tim McVie would be called

an ambitious young republican terrorist.

[KoKo]

4. This was going on for a year! Why didn't they get on it earlier, makes

me so angry to wonder how someone didn't figure out how WSJ,WT,and other papers were getting these memos. And isn't the press culpable for knowing that these memo's were leaked, but still kept using them over and over? They had to see a pattern there.

I think the papers that used thousands of memo's are culpable in this, too.
And for Dems to be sharing a server with Repugs in the first place is almost beyond anything I can imagine. I'm computer clueless but wouldn't share a computer or site with my enemy! How naive could they be? No wonder we Dems get laughed at and dismissed by the Repugs and the press. :grr:

[jean]

6. hopefully, with so much focus on BBV, we can get some savvy

tech people to advise our guys on cyber-security. Please!

I can't believe how dumb it is to do anything of that nature in tandem with the rabid republicans!

Thousands of memos - it makes me scream!

[SoCalDem]

7. Nothing will come of this, because of who controls the place

If an "official" investigation is launched, it will be under the control of the republicans.. The only way this will grow legs is to take it outside the congress.. They need to find ways for this to stay in the media..

In the interim, senators and congresspeople need to be aware that they are in the mix with spies, thieves and saboteurs.. If they have confidential information to exchange, they had better start meeting privately, outside of congress, because every scrap of paper or computer file WILL be looked at by these people..

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

8. Sen Durbin is going to ask each judicial nominee

if he/she had access to these documents. according to what the host said on the program.