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Electronic Burglary in the Senate

Posted by michael on from the breaking-and-entering dept.

earthworm2 writes "The Boston Globe is reporting that Republicans on the Senate judiciary committee have spied on confidential Democratic files for a year, studying their strategies and passing on the juicy bits to the media."

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  1. heh. by Wingchild · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In DC, this is called `Business As Usual`.

    Skip from this incident of Republicans spying back to the years during the Clinton White House, wherein the FBI was found to have pulled confidential files on tons of prominent Republicans and provided that information (quite illegally).

    Quick link to info on Filegate

    Quick summary for people who don't remember 1998: "[There was a] class action suit on behalf of the more than 900 Bush and Reagan appointees and possibly others whose FBI files were unlawfully obtained by the Clinton White House. Louis Freeh, Director of the FBI, has admitted that there was an "egregious violation of privacy without justification."

    It goes around, it comes around, Watergate wasn't the first time, and this isn't the last time.

    Politics.

    feh.

  2. Re:Confidential files by red+floyd · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "GOP committee staff exploited a computer glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic communications without a password".

    DMCA Violation!!!!!

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