GOP Staffer Suspended for Computer Improprieties

Special Report | 11/25/03 | FNC

[dep]

A Republican Senate Judiciary Committee staff member has been suspended with pay after he admitted that he improperly gained access to "secure committee computers," Fox News Channel reports.

Whether the staffer is the person who leaked numerous memos in which Democrats on the committee plotted to turn toe current filibuster of judicial nominees for political advantage was not stated.

An angry Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch denounced the staffer's action, saying that senators expect their computers to be secure and calling the staffer's action "entirely unacceptable."

[StriperSniper]

[FairOpinion]

E-mail Hatch.

http://www.senate.gov/~hatch/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Offices.Contact


The staffer should be considered and protected under the whisleblower law.

The focus should be on the treasonous memos, the staffer brought the light of day on treasonous activity.

Rest assured, if it were the other way around, the Dems would treat it that way.

[ClintonBeGone]

And THIS will be the TOP story of the entire weekend.....if not the month.

Exactly. They'll call it another Watergate. The sad thing is the orginal story about what was IN the memos is totally off the news.

[Mo1]

They have the moral highground now regarding leaked memos, and the Republicans look like saps.

The heck they do ..

It doesn't excuse the Dems from blocking Judges or using our nations nationals security to score political points

[Right_in_Virginia]

The staffer should be considered and protected under the whisleblower law.

Amen! Friend...Amen!

[nwrep]

The last time I checked, there were laws against violating computer security, but no laws against politicizing certain things. What am I missing? Sounds to me like this GOP staffer violated the law?

[Right_in_Virginia]

An angry Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch denounced the staffer's action, saying that senators expect their computers to be secure and calling the staffer's action "entirely unacceptable."

And an angry American citizen feels Mr. Hatch has spent entirely too much time in Washington, DC!!!!

[Mo1]

I think there actually are laws protecting whistle blowers and you are right he should use them. When the news about the Memo from the Select Intell Committee broke Sen. Corzine was on Hannity and Comles stating that whistleblowers were not creditable

[FairOpinion]

"Sen. Corzine was on Hannity and Comles stating that whistleblowers were not creditable"

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I see, only those who blow the whistles that the Democrats approve of are credible. But by calling the guy a whisleblower, the Dems may just have given the Republicans the legitimacy of considering this guy as a whistleblower, and affording him the protection awarded to whisleblowers.

Besides he merely released memos written by the Dems, he didn't write the memos. The memos speak for themselves.

[Amerigomag]

The main point and only point of this incident is that absolute stupidity of our elected representatives. These absolutely ignorant individuals, all of them senators, stored information on computer hard drives and worse yet apparently broadcast their thoughts over a computer net work. Absolute fools.

It's a wonder that this level of mentality can guide a Boy Scout troop let alone our nation.

Oh well, this same mentaliy prevades our forum. There are actually forum members who don't know that every word they ever published on this forum is permanently stored and is publicaly available to anyone who cares to look and that their indentity is available to anyone with a court order.

[agrace]

Don't be embarrassed, that was very strange. (Testing my own...)

[TaxRelief]

Whatever happened to FOIA?

[Mo1]

I see, only those who blow the whistles that the Democrats approve of are credible.

Apparently

Who ever the person is .. they may have a case regarding the whistle blowing

But I'm not sure how well that will go over in the senate

Should be interesting to see it unfold

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

I think it has to do with the new and improved spell checker...

How long has there been a spell checker? I just looked for it after reading your post and I'm wondering if it's been there all along and I just never noticed it. I *hate* making typos.

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

I think it has to do with the new and improved spell checker...

How long has there been a spell checker? I just looked for it after reading your post and I'm wondering if it's been there all along and I just never noticed it. I *hate* making typos.

[MJY1288]

I hope the Dems make a big deal about this, because now that it's been disclosed that a republican staffer obtained this Memo in a less than Kosher way, the story will stay alive because those moronic Dems will try to make a big deal over this, only to find out that the everyday Americans will see why this staffer thought it was important eneough to risk his or her job to let America see how the Dems are politicizing the process.

This will now certainly demand a Senate hearing and Orin Hatch can treat the "Staffer" just like the Dems treated the FBI whsitle blower, Colleen Crowley

[tubebender]

Answer to your question in this Early Chrismas Present From the RObinsons

[Owen]

Hatch now expects the Dems to acknowledge his fair play and allow the nominees to go forward. He's about to learn all about "what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable".

[July 4th]

Give the man a job for the RNC, and buy him a nice computer. Tell him to get to work.

[TaxRelief]

oooo! I'm scared!