{"id":1043,"date":"2004-01-23T16:39:43","date_gmt":"2004-01-23T23:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/the-gop-is-spying-on-everyone\/"},"modified":"2004-01-23T16:39:43","modified_gmt":"2004-01-23T23:39:43","slug":"the-gop-is-spying-on-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-gop-is-spying-on-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"The GOP is Spying on Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston.com \/ News \/ Nation \/ Infiltration of files seen as extensive<\/a><\/p>\n

By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff, 1\/22\/2004
\nWASHINGTON — 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.<\/p>\n

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. …<\/p>\n

[T]he scandal highlights GOP dirty tricks that could result in ethics complaints to the Senate and the Washington Bar — or even criminal charges under computer intrusion laws. …<\/p>\n

After the contents of those memos were made public in The Wall Street Journal editorial pages and The Washington Times, Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah, made a preliminary inquiry and described himself as “mortified that this improper, unethical and simply unacceptable breach of confidential files<\/b> may have occurred on my watch.”<\/p>\n

Hatch also confirmed that “at least one current member of the Judiciary Committee staff had improperly accessed at least some of the documents referenced in media reports.”<\/p>\n

No one should be surprised that zealous Republicans will spy and steal — that’s becoming two of the planks of the GOP. I almost feel sorry for Hatch, who might have a trace of decency. More shocking is the blasé way one of the criminal-staffers brushes this off. And note the role of Robert Novak, who helped the White House betray a CIA agent. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boston.com \/ News \/ Nation \/ Infiltration of files seen as extensive 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 … Continue reading The GOP is Spying on Everyone<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}