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Memo to the Senate Democrats: Firing the Capitol Hill Memo Leakers May be UnconstitutionalBy Jonathan M. Stein, Hofstra University Law Review            Over the past few weeks, several memos drafted by Democrats in the Senate have been leaked to the press.  One memo, from the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, highlights how the Democrats planned to use the awesome power and resources of that committee as a political weapon against the President of the United States.  The other memos detail how powerful left-wing interest groups pressured Senate Democrats to impermissibly oppose judicial nominations based on characteristics such as race and gender.  Now...

For weeks, the liberal media have feasted on leaks that purport to prove that prewar intelligence on Iraq was distorted and politicized. The media have reported these leaks uncritically and without challenge. In most cases, there is scant indication that reporters have made any effort to verify the accuracy of their unsourced accusations. But the liberal media have been far more "evenhanded" in their coverage of real proof that Democrats have tried to play politics with intelligence information. As revealed by Fox News' Sean Hannity, a Democrat staff member working on the Senate intelligence committee has laid out a strategy...

How Senator Rockefeller Can be Held Responsible for His Role in “MemoGate”A Research Outline of Legal Findings      Hopefully, someone who is a member of the bar will read this and take the next step.  Below you will find that I have done a substantial portion of the legal research and theorizing necessary to hold Senator Rockefeller responsible for MemoGate.  This atrocity cannot be allowed to stand.  Note that I did not get into standing or justiciability, but I'm there is a way of finding imminent harm.  I mean, if enforcement of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban can be stayed...

Fox News broke the story regarding a memorandum that surfaced dealing with political strategy on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The memo provided a ''game plan'' for how Democrats should proceed in their most cherished goal: defeating George Bush in 2004. It was my understanding that this historically nonpartisan committee should be more concerned with winning the war on terror, but this event proves otherwise. Instead of focusing on intelligence gathering capabilities and procedures, this reproachable memo suggests Democrats should ''verbally mention some of the intriguing leads we are pursuing.'' When did the dissemination of classified information become encouraged?...

Once again, partisan politics has won out in Washington. Memos from and to many top democrats, detailing dishonest practices ranging from the blocking of judicial nominations, to the exploitation of sensitive intelligence information, have leaked like rain in the monsoon. As revealed in these memos, both the Senate Intelligence Committee and judicial confirmation process have been compromised to a great extent. The Democratic hierarchy has attempted to downplay the significance of the documents as nothing but advice from their constituency. The actions of the party, however, lead one to believe that rather than advice the party was receiving instructions from...

A Republican Senate Judiciary Committee staff member has been suspended with pay after he admitted that he improperly gained access to "secure committee computers," Fox News Channel reports. Whether the staffer is the person who leaked numerous memos in which Democrats on the committee plotted to turn toe current filibuster of judicial nominees for political advantage was not stated. An angry Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch denounced the staffer's action, saying that senators expect their computers to be secure and calling the staffer's action "entirely unacceptable."

By REUTERS Filed at 8:10 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top U.S. Senate Republican expressed ``deep regret'' on Tuesday in announcing that an internal investigation of computer records found one of his staffers had ``improperly accessed'' Democratic documents. Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch said he placed the staffer on administrative leave with pay pending a separate probe by the Senate sergeant at arms, Bill Pickle. Hatch, who had initially ridiculed the allegations, also said a former staffer ``may also have been involved,'' but declined to identify either person by name. ``I am mortified that this improper, unethical and simply...

Enroute to United Arab Emirates – Attention members of the Fourth Estate. You are missing an extraordinary opportunity to add yet another meaningless moniker to your pathetic pantheon of social stereotypes. To the list which includes such ludicrous labels as “Soccer Moms,” “Angry White Males,” “Gen Xers,” and “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Theorists,” you can now add “Beltway Memo Writers.” This group of scribes has not yet reached the vaunted social status of the Judson Welliver Society – a group of former White House speechwriters – but if their memoranda continue to impact the literary genre as they have over...

Gray Lady gets egg on her face Posted: November 21, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com As Ronald Reagan would say, "There you go again." Last week, the New York Times downplayed a remarkable story, first broken by radio talk-show host Sean Hannity, about a memo revealing a Democrat Party plot to use the Senate Intelligence Committee as a tool for political gain. When the Times finally got around to reporting the story – 48 hours after it broke – the paper not only buried the story on page 12, it repositioned it from a blatant "scandal" to a mere political "feud"...

Fox News broke the story regarding a memorandum that surfaced dealing with political strategy on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The memo provided a ''game plan'' for how Democrats should proceed in their most cherished goal: defeating George Bush in 2004. It was my understanding that this historically nonpartisan committee should be more concerned with winning the war on terror, but this event proves otherwise. Instead of focusing on intelligence gathering capabilities and procedures, this reproachable memo suggests Democrats should ''verbally mention some of the intriguing leads we are pursuing.'' When did the dissemination of classified information become encouraged?...

<p>Because news outlets like to remind President Bush how many American servicemen have died since he declared an "end" to major combat in Iraq, a new military and intelligence-themed Internet site spells out reasons for the current U.S. deployment.</p> <p>"America is at war," reminds IntelMemo.com. "We are at war against the network of international terrorists who committed the mass murders of September 11th. We are at war against the survivors of Saddam Hussein's regime and against the remnants of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Americans have died and continue to die in this struggle."</p>

<p>The source of the memos is unclear. The sheer volume of the memos, however, suggests that the memos weren't simply misplaced by someone – they appear to have been intentionally leaked by a Democrat. Also, the memos, which begin in late 2001, cut off suddenly in April 2003. This suggests that they came from a former staffer, rather than someone who recently accessed Democrats' computers. Finally, the only information blacked out in the memos is staffers' names. Whoever leaked these memos did not care about the Senators, but apparently knew the staffers and cared enough to spare them embarrassment.</p>

Memo To: All democrat public officialsFrom: Damage Control DivisionCC: Major Mainstream Media; Activist GroupsDate: November 19, 2003Re: Moratorium on use of memos Moratorium on use of memos Effective immediately, the DNC is issuing a moratorium on the use of memos. Though we have managed, thus far, to keep most details out of the mainstream media (Thanks, everyone!), we have faced the following incidents, all of which could be prevented. Until proper document control procedures can be put in place, the use of memos for all purposes is forbidden. Judicial Committee Memos Ok, someone leaked these memos, and its making us...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- The Free Republic Network launched a website on Monday that will focus on the scandal surrounding the Senate Intelligence Committee memo which detailed a Democrat plan to use classified information to defeat President Bush in 2004. The website, www.intelmemo.com, will provide news, analysis, and research material about the memo written by a staffer for Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV). The memo scandal was first revealed by nationally syndicated radio talk show host Sean Hannity.

<p>Senate Intelligence Committee leaders plan to ask the Justice Department to investigate who leaked a top-secret Pentagon memo sent to the committee.</p> <p>The Oct. 27 memo from Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith provided details of intelligence linking Usama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network and the toppled Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein (search). Details of the memo were published in the Nov. 24 issue of The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine.</p>

CommonConservative.com 11/16/03 --> "WE CALLED THEM TRAITORS"...and everyone laughed... by Tom Adkins. For years, conservatives claimed liberals were bent on destroying the United States. We suspected they were willing to ruin lives, even actively ruin America to gain political power and turn America into a socialist state. We called them traitors. And everyone laughed. We said liberals were anti-American. We said they were traitors. And we watched the evidence mount. The Rosenbergs. Whitaker Chambers. The Church Commission. The counter culture. So-called “peace protesters.” Jane Fonda. Jimmy Carter’s arrogant socialist smile. The pro-Sandinista Congress. We called them traitors. And everyone laughed....

This is a plea to fellow FREepers. Unfortunately, the media, including the conservative media, fails to keep us informed as to this scandal concerning the memo scandal. This is treason. This is harmful to our nation, and it is important that we, as conservatives committed to the truth, spread the word to our friends and families, and force Sen. Rockefeller to resign and take the heat for this memo. We must plead with the media, write e-mails and send letters to members of the media and demand that this issue gets the coverage that it deserves. We must support the...

Partisan animosity that has brought operations of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to a standstill reached new depths on Nov. 5. The committee's Democratic vice chairman, Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, went on Lou Dobbs' CNN program to say flatly he had not ordered the staff memorandum outlining a confrontational election year strategy on Iraq. The Republican chairman, Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, was startled. He told his staff that Rockefeller told him he personally ordered aides to give him ''options'' -- an order that produced the infamous memo. To the plain-spoken ex-Marine, trust had been breached. His...

***NEWS RELEASE*** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 17, 2003 Contact: Joe Giganti (frn@freeper.org) (703) 928-9695 FREE REPUBLIC NETWORK LAUNCHES WEB SITE ON SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE MEMO, CALLS FOR SENATOR ROCKEFELLER TO RESIGN (Washington, DC) The Free Republic Network today announced the unveiling of www.intelmemo.com, a new web site that provides news, analysis and research material regarding the plans by partisan Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to use sensitive intelligence data for political attacks against the Bush Administration, as outlined in a recently revealed internal memo. The Network also called for the immediate resignation of the Committee’s Vice Chairman,...

WASHINGTON -- Partisan animosity that has brought operations of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to a standstill reached new depths on the early evening of Nov. 5. The committee's Democratic vice chairman, Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, went on Lou Dobbs's CNN program to say flatly he had not ordered the staff memorandum outlining a confrontational election-year strategy on Iraq.The Republican chairman, Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, was startled. He informed his staff that Rockefeller had told him that he personally ordered aides to give him "options" -- an order that produced the now infamous memo. To...