I wonder if there's a link between the NSA spying and this forgotten story

[Lone_Wolf]

Infiltration of files seen as extensive
Senate panel's GOP staff pried on Democrats

By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff, 1/22/2004

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.

The office of Senate Sergeant-at-Arms William Pickle has already launched an investigation into how excerpts from 15 Democratic memos showed up in the pages of the conservative-leaning newspapers and were posted to a website last November.

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.

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[izzybeans]

1. Some one posted that earlier today. I wondered the same thing.

I doubt they'd be that stupid to link up a paper trail to domestic wiretapping. But if anything this seems to be espionage on the part of the Republicans. There will not be an investigation until some reason is restored to the Congress.

[madeline_con]

3. "I doubt they'd be that stupid ..."

Oh, they'd be that stoopid. They're a cocky bunch. :popcorn:

[izzybeans]

4. True. I did say doubt...I am open to revising my thesis.

[NVMojo]

2. makes sense and fits the profile

[kineneb]

5. shall we say...it would not surprise me

The depths to which the GOP will stoop to maintain power seems to have no bounds. By comparison, Watergate will be shown to be quite small.