From today's Boston Globe----------
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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― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:12 (twenty years ago) link
Well, buck up, and take heart that you live in a country where politicians only SEEM like petty crooks.
― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:19 (twenty years ago) link
Second thread on this, I think?Apparently so, but it was already buried on down the New Answer page with an inobvious title. Delete one of these then.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:21 (twenty years ago) link
twelve years pass...
Imagine, a whole fucking party of traitors
Oh wait we've had this before
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 28 July 2016 01:01 (seven years ago) link