Do You Want to See the Actual Judiciary Committee Memos?

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[ConservativeGadfly]

Go to this website: www.fairjudiciary.com

Click on "The Collusion Memos"

Read them and weep.

[ConservativeGadfly]

There is enough material in these memos for MONTHS of op-eds and talk radio chatter.

Not to mention an Ethics Committee investigation in the Senate on INFLUENCE PEDDLING, among other ethical violations.

[ConservativeGadfly]

BUMP

[mathluv]

Rush just did a lovely rant on the memos.

[joyce11111]

I saved them all,. thanks for the post.

[pabianice]

Rush just finished commenting upon the Repubs' rolling over on these memos. If he is correct, WHY are the Repubs making nice-nice and agreeing not to make an issue of the Dems' outrageous interfering with the judicial nomination process??

[The G Man]

Boy oh boy ... those things are amazing.

As for why the GOP is rolling over, it's obvious. No doubt they've had their own little war room sessions over the years with our own special interest groups.

[backhoe]

Cross-linking:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1015980/posts

MemoGate- sedition, slander-- or something worse?
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1015980/posts

MemoGate- sedition, slander-- or something worse?
Various FR links | 11-06-03 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

[antiRepublicrat]

WHY are the Repubs making nice-nice and agreeing not to make an issue of the Dems' outrageous interfering with the judicial nomination process??

Maybe because they were committing a felony by accessing them without authorization. I predicted the good ol' boys club would put party aside and come together in self defense.

[plain talk]

If he is correct, WHY are the Repubs making nice-nice and agreeing not to make an issue of the Dems' outrageous interfering with the judicial nomination process??

Maybe because they know one of their staffers broke the law to get the info? If so, they have less leverage. At least that would explain it.

[DoctorMichael]

Bttt

[diotima]

What law was broken?

[jla]

fyi

[axxmann]

WHY are the Repubs making nice-nice....

Because republicans are pussies.

[OldFriend]

Bush isn't conservative enough, let's give the dems more power. We can count on them to do the right thing..........................

[plain talk]

Good question. With all the furor I assumed it was against the law for staffers to hack into computers (assuming they did). Maybe it's just an ethical violation if it happened. It must be awfully serious the way these dems are treating it! :-)

[ConservativeGadfly]

No law was broken.

No ethics rule was violated.

They were on an open server.

And p.s., the Dems could read the Reps emails and memos too. The difference? The Reps weren't committing ethical violations and documenting them in memos.

[ConservativeGadfly]

There wasn't any hacking. Hacking implies breaking down firewalls and busting through passwords. This was a shared server, open for anyone on the committee to see.

[ConservativeGadfly]

Yes, backhoe. Been mighty convenient for the Dems to avoid the subject of the content of the judiciary memos AS WELL AS the intelligence memos, eh?

And the Reps have swallowed the bait hook, line and sinker.

[plain talk]

No law was broken. No ethics rule was violated. They were on an open server. And p.s., the Dems could read the Reps emails and memos too.

You've piqued my curiosity and admit to not being up-to-speed on this. Are you saying these idiots have folders on shared servers that are not password-protected and everyone can read everyone's memo's and documents? I find that hard to swallow.

[ConservativeGadfly]

Yes. That is exactly what I am saying.

There is one server in the Senate Judiciary Committee. When Leahy took over after Jeffords jumped ship, he fired the old IT guys and brought in his own. Who stupidly configured the server so that the folders on the server could be opened by anyone.

When the problem was discovered, the Republicans told the IT guy the problem and he chose to do nothing about it.

So yes. It was an open server.

There was no hacking. There was no stealing. It was just there.

And so cleverly, the Dems started screeching about how the memos were leaked to avoid the subject of what was in the memos. And Hatch pulled the trigger when confronted by the hysterical Dems and referred the matter to the Sergeant at Arms, who is, by the way, a Gore contributor.

Starting to get the picture?

[backhoe]

And the Reps have swallowed the bait hook, line and sinker.

You'll get no argument from me- I'm starting to view either party as different Wings on the same vulture...

[plain talk]

What I'm hearing astounds me. A "shared folder" so-to-speak and everyone on the committee can look at everyone's files. But they are not supposed to "peek" at other's work. Because that would be an invasion of privacy. If this was a business, heads would roll over the lack of security. Thanks for educating me on this.

[alnick]

Maybe because they were committing a felony by accessing them without authorization. I

Exactly what felony would that be?

[CGVet58]

"...WHY are the Repubs making nice-nice and agreeing not to make an issue ..."?

Hillary Clinton +
Missing FBI Files (later found in White House closet)

=

Blackmail

[NonValueAdded]

Holy Pentagon Papers, Batman, why should that be an issue? Don't we have a Controlling Legal Authority^TM here?

[WOSG]

"Maybe because they were committing a felony by accessing them without authorization. "

Oh please ... if it is a felony to see files on a computer network that is not even password-protected? Frankly, this is not IMHO even a crime at all. This was shared equipment, a common infrastructure, anyone can simply browse a computer server and see what's not 'protected', doesnt make it criminal. At worst an ethically shading taking advantage of the witlessness of the others. The kind of stuff Democrats might do (recall the eavesdropping on cell phone calls by a democrat operative on GOP strategy) and get away with.

[WOSG]

Nah "Frist" and "Hatch" roll over, period.

They are the Subaru 4x4s of Republican comity.

[WOSG]

"With all the furor I assumed" --- the only assumption you can draw from the media 'furor' is it must be against the Republicans!

Only in the technophobic environs of Capitol Hill could accessing an *unprotected set of files* be called "hacking".

I need to hightail it over there, I could make big bucks consulting those DOOFI.

Q: "Hey, my computer isnt working"
A: "Er, plug it in."

[ConservativeGadfly]

BINGO!

The media reports have been littered with this notion of "hacking" and so folks apparently think it must be true.

Yet in all of these media reports, has one law or ethics rule been cited as the violation? Hmmmmm. Well, no.

And the meter continues to tick as the investigation continues to through tax dollars down the drain. They are up to well over half a million spent on this foolishness.

[antiRepublicrat]

Oh please ... if it is a felony to see files on a computer network that is not even password-protected? Frankly, this is not IMHO even a crime at all.

Read the law. Unauthorized (password protected or not, only a question of authorization) access of electronic communications is a federal felony, in this case punishable by one year plus fine. Subsequent offences are five years.

[antiRepublicrat]

Exactly what felony would that be?

USC Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 121, § 2701, Unlawful access to stored communications.

[MamaLucci]

No more democrat collusion on the Judiciary Committee........
Arlen Specter must NOT become chairman!

[jmstein7]

Good work!

[Just mythoughts]

Thanks for the reminder.

[MamaLucci]

My pleasure. Another point everyone should make when they call members of the Judiciary Committee.....we may as well have kept Daschle around if we are going to entrust the chairmanship of this important committee to liberal RINO, Specter.

[Just mythoughts]

"...we may as well have kept Daschle around if we are going to entrust the chairmanship of this important committee to liberal RINO, Specter."


Boy isn't that the truth, and did you know that Specter conducts weekly Bible studies, or at least use to, I heard him brag about it years ago on C-SPAM!

[MamaLucci]

Specter conducts weekly Bible studies, or at least use to

No, I didn't know that.......I do know he's Jewish, but many Jews are pro-abortion, I think.

[IrishCatholic]

Bookmark for later printing. Thanks.

[Just mythoughts]

This was over 6 years ago more like 8-10 years ago. Sure seemed like a plus to have any Senator no matter what their religion having a weekly Bible study.

However, my eyes were opened when he went to Scottish law to absolve Clinton.