[Mr. Bird]

Couple of thoughts. First of all, the "leaker" better land on his feet somewhere else in the GOP machine. Politics is dirty business, and this guy knows how to play.

Second, I'm not sure Congress should be able to classify documents as confidential if they are simply correspondence. The FOIA should apply to all Congressional documents not classifed due to national security or other legal concerns.

Thirdly, can you imagine the level of press outrage if such information was revealed and the GOP was the culprit?

[Sunshine Sister]

My thoughts exactly. I have not heard one TV news report about this. I wonder why?

[Tired_of_the_Lies]

Unless things have changed radically in the last few years, FOIA (the federal law) applies only to the Executive branch of government, and not the Legislative or Judicial. Whether it should or not is a different question.

[ClintonBeGone]

Second, I'm not sure Congress should be able to classify documents as confidential if they are simply correspondence. The FOIA should apply to all Congressional documents not classifed due to national security or other legal concerns.

FOIA may not even apply to congress. It all depends on whether they included themselves when they wrote the law. Some state legislatures have exempted themselves.

[Steve_Seattle]

What the memos revealed was the Dems working hand-in-glove with lobbyists, even to the point of re-scheduling hearings at their request. Isn't this precisely the sort of unhealthy arrangement with lobbyists that the Dems (especially Henry Waxman) have been telling us the public has a right to know about, and which formed the basis of their legal challenge to obtain Cheney's memos regarding the energy task force? Doesn't the public have a "right to know" about the iner workings of the Dems as well as the Republicans?