Hatch's handling of hacking decried

Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake) ^ | February 07, 2004 | Lee Davidson

[LADY J]

When does the investigation about the content of the documents start?

Think we need to send some inquiries to the Republicans about this.

Silence is consenting with their decision.

[Eva]

We should get Utah Freepers to e-mail him and ask him if Hillary has his FBI file.

[Eva]

I e-mailed the people at C-Pac, all got is a thank you for your interest e-mail in return. I sent them a copy of the NRO article yesterday.

[John Beresford Tipton]

"Hatch's behavior suggests that someone has got the goods on him."

I've often thought the same, unfortunately we will not know unless he does something courageous which, will be when:

[Consort]

This sort of gutlessness is going to make Bush lose reelection. Conservatives are just going to stay home on election day.

They're going to stay home and have the gall to call others gutless? We have met the enemy and they are us. "It's the voters, stupid."

[LADY J]

Wonder if the talk shows would get the ball rolling.

[glock rocks]

LMAO. You've got a point there!

[Eva]

I think that Hannity and Rush need to pound on this issue, and put some real pressure on Hatch.

[JohnG45]

Count me in.

[arasina]

Have you ever read the testimony given by Harold Ickes regarding Filegate? He and Hillary share the "I don't recall" response when questioned in legal depositions.

From JUDICIAL WATCH's website:
ALEXANDER et al. v. FBI, et. al. Civil Action No. 96-2123. Judicial Watch is representing the plaintiffs in a class-action suit filed by White House employees of the Bush and Reagan administrations whose FBI files were wrongly accessed by the Clinton White House. The White House and FBI are being sued under the federal Privacy Act, while the individual defendants B Bernard Nussbaum, Craig Livingstone, Anthony Marceca and Hillary Clinton B are being sued for common-law tort of invasion of privacy.

Plaintiffs' counsel deposed Harold Ickes for less than six hours on May 21, 1998, wherein Ickes said he "does not remember" or "I don't recall" or similar statements of memory loss, approximately 84 times, an average of once every four minutes!(1) On other occasions his responses bordered on feigned memory loss and/or were clearly evasive, making his memory/non-responsive condition occur over one every one and a half minutes during the deposition, for a total of 264 times.

There were many reasons to obtain his testimony. The Filegate scandal became public in May/June 1996.(2) During most of the Filegate period, Ickes was Deputy Chief of Staff and Assistant to the President from late 1993 to January 20, 1997.(3) His duties were to "assist the President in whatever way he wanted."(4) Ickes "reported directly to the Chief of Staff (Thomas "Mack" McLarty and later Leon Panetta), but there were times when he "dealt directly with the President."(5) Ickes testified that as part of his job he "had a lot, a lot under [his] purview" and the FBI files matter "was but one of them, and it was an important issue."(6) Ickes further testified that when he left the White House around January 20, 1997,(7) he took "35 to 50 or so boxes"(8) of documents from the White House with him. Ickes said he boxed the documents himself and nobody checked them before he removed them.(9) In addition, Ickes has been doing "volunteer" work for the President's lawyer on the Clinton scandals,(10) which involves the Clinton Department of Defense's violation of Linda Tripp's privacy rights, a subject this Court has ruled relevant to this case.(11)

The tactics employed by Ickes at his deposition were consistent with the obstructionist strategy used by the Clinton Administration throughout this litigation and the many other scandals in which it is embroiled.

I gather Ickes is the one who was given the FBI files to store away at one of his NY properties. An interesting read.

HAROLD ICKES DEPOSITION, CARA LESLIE ALEXANDER v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, MAY 21, 1998

[The South Texan]

Again, the GOP shows why they are be called the stupid party. The Democrats would have never done this. Will these people please learn that you can not be nice to RATS!

[B4Ranch]

What would be nicer would be for something truly "evil" to come out on about half a dozen of these RINO's and then have a judge declare that their votes for the previous ten years on all close votes was to be removed. Send a lot of socialist Bills straight out the window and have the citizens freedoms comme marching in.

[B4Ranch]

I'd love to "shock and mortify" him with an old branding iron.

[Pete-R-Bilt]

ouch!

[glock rocks]

Scottish law comes to mind.

Next time on Oprah the senate judiciary committee.

[The Right Stuff]

Wasn't Hatch implicated in one older scandal like Keating Five or something?

[mabelkitty]

Orrin either has something to hide or he is being black-mailed.

[glock rocks]

Yep. check post 19...

[mabelkitty]

He's now being called out by his own state papers.
This is the third I've seen in 24 hours.
He will have to retire now.
He won't win re-election, and he can't sustain this dancing on the head of a pin act.

[Interesting Times]

Bribery and blackmail are among the most effective tools leftists use to persuade people in key positions to tow the party line.

It's naive to think such tactics are used only on Democrats...