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The article fails to mention former DSCC research director Katie Barge's previous employment by the left-wing opposition research outfit, Media Matters. The article fails to mention exactly how Barge and underling Lauren Weiner obtained Lt. Gov. Michael Steele's credit report--by abusing his Social Security number in order to obtain the report under false premises. The article fails to mention that Barge and Weiner's employer, Sen. Charles Schumer, has ironically fashioned himself a champion of privacy and defender against identity theft. See this Newsday article for the angle the Times refused to print. And the article fails to mention who's picking...

The New York Times still hasn't published a word about the Democrats' credit report dirty trick involving two of Chuck Schumer's former employees. Investor's Business Daily editorializes today on Schumer's plumbers and the lack of national media coverage: One would think a potential felony by staffers for a top Democrat — a case being investigated by the U.S. attorney's office in D.C. as well as the FBI — would at least get a paragraph of coverage somewhere between the grocery coupons and the obituaries. Can you imagine the media firestorm if staffers for, say, Frist, had used Barack Obama's Social...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 - National Republicans, who face an uphill battle in their efforts to capture the open United States Senate seat in heavily Democratic Maryland next year, are trying to exploit potential legal problems that Democrats are now suddenly facing in that race. The Republicans are seizing on a disclosure that two researchers at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee improperly obtained the credit report of Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, a Republican who is considering a bid for the Senate seat. In recent days, Republicans have sought to put Democrats on the defensive, saying the incident underscores just how concerned...