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Take care of your foot soldiers! Posted: February 3, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The Republican leadership is attacking one of its loyal foot soldiers – senior staff aide to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., Manuel Miranda – in a vain attempt to appease their Democrat counterparts. And it's safe to do because Miranda is an infantryman without air support to cover for him. In an April 17, 2002, memo, Senate Judiciary Committee member Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., was apprised that Elaine Jones, the president and director-counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund had marching orders. The memo indicated that Jones...

For months now, Senate Democrats have wanted a scalp in the Judiciary Committee memos investigation. If Republicans can be pressured into firing one of their own for leaking the documents, Democrats — the aggressors in the fight over the president's judicial nominees — will be able to portray themselves as victims. You remember the memos. They were from Democratic staffers to Senators Richard Durbin and Edward Kennedy, and they discussed Democratic strategies for blocking the president's judicial nominees. When they were leaked to the Wall Street Journal editorial page last November, the memos revealed just how closely Senate Democrats worked...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- An investigation by the Senate sergeant-at-arms into strategy memos from the Judiciary Committee that Democrats claim were illegally accessed and released to the press continues to expand. Miguel Miranda, an aide to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, has been placed on leave pending the outcome of an investigation into whether Democrat committee members' computers were illegally accessed. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) also placed an aide on leave last year for his involvement in the matter. The unnamed aide has reportedly left government work. Hatch has been apologetic about the leak of the memos,...

<p>A man from the U.S. Senate's Sergeant-at-Arms Office called this week, asking us to give up the name of one of our sources. A formal probe is under way to discover how last November we got our hands on Democratic strategy memos on how to defeat President Bush's judicial nominees. We politely told the gentleman to take a hike.</p>

Tonight on Jeff Gannon's Washington: Greg Parke, Retired AF officer running against avowed Socialist Bernie Sanders for Vermont's only seat in Congress. Mychal Massie, Syndicated columnist from Project 21, talking about the Senate judiciary memo scandal. Other regular features on Jeff Gannon's Washington: "Behind Enemy Lines" a conservative journalist in the liberal White House Press Corps "Outrageous, Outrageous!" the despicable acts of our elected officials "Whine of the Week" no chardonnay here, just sour grapes LISTEN LIVE!CHAT

Go to this website: www.fairjudiciary.com Click on "The Collusion Memos" Read them and weep.

<p>A man from the U.S. Senate's Sergeant-at-Arms Office called this week, asking us to give up the name of one of our sources. A formal probe is under way to discover how last November we got our hands on Democratic strategy memos on how to defeat President Bush's judicial nominees. We politely told the gentleman to take a hike.</p>

<p>The real scandal is what's in the Democratic memos on judges, not who leaked them.</p> <p>A man from the U.S. Senate's Sergeant-at-Arms Office called this week, asking us to give up the name of one of our sources. A formal probe is under way to discover how last November we got our hands on Democratic strategy memos on how to defeat President Bush's judicial nominees. We politely told the gentleman to take a hike.</p>

The Hatch problem. President Bush's recess appointment of Judge Charles Pickering to the Fifth Circuit follows a string of other actions that make it clear: When it comes to the judge battle, the gloves are off. Unfortunately, Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch hasn't gotten the memo. Hatch's politeness and charity towards his Democratic colleagues on the Judiciary Committee, often the source of frustration for conservatives in Washington, is now acutely damaging to the struggle to get conservative judges onto the federal bench. Specifically, Hatch's eagerness to comply with the Democratic witch-hunt — cooked up to draw attention away from embarrassing memos...

Will GOP Chairman Rebuke Conservative's Vile Hate Speech?Washington, DC — Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe today said he would be personally monitoring the Republican National Committee’s website anxiously waiting for Chairman Ed Gillespie to repudiate comments made by a right wing columnist comparing Senate Democrats to Nazis. Gillespie recently took to the airwaves to express outrage over an ad posted at the Moveon.org web site that used images of Adolph Hitler. Despite giving the ad more play on the RNC web site than it had in its entire existence on MoveOn's site, Gillespie called it: "the worst and most...

An internal GOP power struggle has emerged over how to handle President Bush’s controversial judicial nominees in the Senate. The battle pits top aides in the Senate office of Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who chairs the judiciary panel, against more conservative staffers who work with the committee on nominations. The struggle has come to light in the wake of an investigation by Bill Pickle, the Senate sergeant at arms, into the leak to the press of embarrassing internal Democratic Judiciary memos. Pickle plans to issue his report on the probe in the next several weeks. He gave an update on...

For months now, Senate Democrats have wanted a scalp in the Judiciary Committee memos investigation. If Republicans can be pressured into firing one of their own for leaking the documents, Democrats — the aggressors in the fight over the president’s judicial nominees — will be able to portray themselves as victims. You remember the memos. They were from Democratic staffers to Sens. Richard Durbin (Ill.) and Edward Kennedy (Mass.), and they discussed Democratic strategies for blocking the president’s judicial nominees. When they were leaked to the Wall Street Journal editorial page last November, the memos revealed just how closely Senate...

<p>An aide to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has been put on leave during an investigation into how Republicans gained access to Democratic memos concerning opposition to President Bush's judicial nominees.</p> <p>Manuel Miranda, who works for the Tennessee Republican on judicial nominations, is on leave pending the outcome of the inquiry by the Senate sergeant-at-arms, Frist spokesman Nick Smith said yesterday. In the matter under investigation, Democratic memos stored on a computer server shared by Judiciary Committee members ended up in Republican hands.</p>

He believes probe looking at records prior to work with senator A top aide to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, on leave during a computer security probe, said Monday he never distributed any Democratic documents that Republican staff found on a shared computer system. "There was no hacking" into computer folders of Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, Manuel Miranda, a counsel on judicial nominations for Frist, R-Tenn., said in an interview. "There was no stealing. No systematic surveillance. I never forwarded these memos - period." The Senate sergeant-at-arms is using computer experts of the Secret Service to determine whether...

Senate Republicans Hack Democratic Computer Files Dear Friend, Sometimes we come across a news story so shocking that it serves to remind us that Bush's Republicans will cross any line in their pursuit of full control over the government. You have already heard how President Bush bypassed the Senate confirmation process and appointed Charles Pickering -- who authored the GOP anti-abortion plank and argued for lenience for a convicted cross-burner -- to a lifetime seat on the federal bench just hours after laying a wreath at the grave of Martin Luther King, Jr. But they're not done. This week, the...

Democrats say their computers were infiltrated by GOP staffers WASHINGTON - Federal investigators reportedly have seized a staff computer in Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's office in a probe to find Republican aides who improperly accessed Democrats' memos on opposing judicial nominees. Nick Smith, a spokesman for Frist, R-Tenn., would not confirm or deny Friday if an office computer or hard drive was taken by investigators representing the office of the Senate Sergeant-At-Arms. "We're not commenting on the issue while it's under investigation," Smith said. The Boston Globe reported Thursday that federal experts studying any improper access of Democratic senators'...

Computer reportedly seized from Frist's office Democrats say their computers were infiltrated by GOP staffers WASHINGTON - Federal investigators reportedly have seized a staff computer in Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's office in a probe to find Republican aides who improperly accessed Democrats' memos on opposing judicial nominees. Nick Smith, a spokesman for Frist, R-Tenn., would not confirm or deny Friday if an office computer or hard drive was taken by investigators representing the office of the Senate Sergeant-At-Arms. "We're not commenting on the issue while it's under investigation," Smith said. The Boston Globe reported Thursday that federal experts studying...

<p>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.</p> <p>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. Trolling through hundreds of memos, they were able to read talking points and accounts of private meetings discussing which judicial nominees Democrats would fight -- and with what tactics.</p>

<p>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.</p> <p>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. Trolling through hundreds of memos, they were able to read talking points and accounts of private meetings discussing which judicial nominees Democrats would fight -- and with what tactics.</p>

The Battle for the High Court By Melissa CharbonneauWhite House Correspondent January 13, 2004 Republicans say they now have proof of a "cozy alliance" between Senate Democrats and left-wing activists. CBN.com – WASHINGTON - Opposition to the confirmation of Bush judicial nominees is solidifying the standoff between the President and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Internal memos have recently come to light, from Democratic staffers to some Democratic senators, which raise serious questions about who is pulling the strings behind the scenes in this political battle. Republicans say Senate Democrats are taking their marching orders from liberal lobby groups,...