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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. Wow by techsoldaten · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wow, what do you say about this? Watergate, anyone?

    Considering the Patriot Act has made most of the crimes that occured in the Watergate affair a legal activity, this smacks of someone bending the rules a little too far in their favor. Who is watching what these people are up to these days?

  2. Terrorism by red+floyd · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Excuse me, but isn't cracking into computers considered terrorism under the PATRIOT act? Why aren't these guys being shipped off to Gitmo?

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  3. Re:Way to go GOP! by Shakrai · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Just to clear things up, one would smokes crack, not snort it.

    How is it used ?

    The major routes of administration of cocaine are snorting, injecting, and smoking (including freebase and crack cocaine). Snorting is inhaling cocaine powder through the nose where it is absorbed into the bloodstream through the nasal tissues. Injecting is using a needle to release the drug directly into the bloodstream. Smoking involves inhaling cocaine vapor or smoke into the lungs, where it is absorbed into the bloodstream as quickly as when it is injected.

    From this website. Sorry that I'm not as up to date on my illegal drug slang as you obviously are AC. Crack is apparently the smokeable version of Cocaine -- which Dubya did snort back in the 70s -- as opposed to Clinton who had the audacity to smoke weed! How dare he!

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  4. Re:Way to go GOP! by Shakrai · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I think the reason the democrats have had such trouble with them is that they are actually respectful of other people instead of raping them every chance they get.

    Exactly!

    To quote (from memory, so it's probably not exact) Mr. Al Franken, "The right has a well oiled puppy mill turning out trained and vicious attack dogs. Whereas our attack dogs on the left are a scrubby bunch of underfed mutts who spend half the day sniffing each others butts and wagging their tails."

    It would be nice to think the Republicans would actually change the tone and practice the bi-partisanship they preach and not force the Democrats to adopt their tactics but what are the odds of that happening? Time to oil up the puppy mill for the left....

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    I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
    We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
  5. Re:The goods by ilikecaffeine · · Score: 0, Redundant
    The two-party system is simply what we're used to, but it's not established by the Constitution. It's happenstance, and an unfortunate one at that.

    Right on.