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Electronic Burglary in the Senate
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."
i teh s3n4t0r
"If you think you have things under control, you're not going fast enough." --Mario Andretti
If one of your coworkers leaves his file cabinet unlocked and you want something out of it is that stealing??
Is it wrong? Do you ALWAYS tell him you got what you needed?
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
So if they leave a filing cabinet unlocked with private memos that gives the other side permission to steal them and leak them to the media?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Lets just be slightly objective here, rather than immediately accuse the "evil republicans" because it's the trendy thing to do.
There's nothing in the article that specifically points fingers at republicans. Hell, these memos could be leaked by the very democrats that receive the memos! These memos could be leaked by the interns that handle these things.
It's also entirely possible that this could be a well timed pawn in the Democrat's strategy to regain control of the country... being a few days away from democrat elections and all.
Of course, this brings forth another point... what are members of the senate doing in secret that need to be kept out of public view? The correct answer should be NOTHING, and therefore, all memos should be open to the public anyway. I'd advise that we shouldn't re-elect secretive, unaccountable senators at the next election.
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Most laws enacted do not apply on the Hill. You can't arrest someone for something that wasn't illegal. Morality and ethics aside - this is done everyday by both sides and is old news. It always surprises me how liberal the average Slashdot reader appears to be. Such a waste.
What did the President know, and when did he know it?
This is America, damnit. Speak Spanish!
You insult the intellegence of Americans. I have been a registered 'no' voter, along with the majority of Americans for several years. Only, you can't non-elect someone. At least my silence is heard.
Soooooo. "Lying" is never performed by Bush, because he isn't set up on false charges of attacking women, put under oath, and then quizzed about his private sex life, while the judge allows the irrelevant line of questions to go on. Telling the *precise* truth, as the judge defines it (oral sex NE sex) doesn't cut it. Lying about your private sex life because some filthy swine hornswoggled a judge into permitting it is a FELONY.
LYING OUTRIGHT about certain knowledge of weapons trained on us and about to be used any minute, got to go to war now, NOW: just fine, because HE WASN'T UNDER OATH??!? He KILLED over ten thousand people!! KILLED THEM! INCINERATED THEM! BLEW KIDS' ARMS AND LEGS OFF! FOR A PACK OF FUCKING LIES! So he could take over Iraq's oil spigot and kill OPEC someday! He looked right into Diane Sawyer's eyes, smirked, and dared her to make something of the difference between actual knowledge of Iraq's danger and a total fucking fantasy, because he knew assholes like you would never let people call him on it in the media!
There is a big difference, you pitbull braindead Republican! It's called the difference between not telling some goons about your private sex life so they can destroy you personally, and mass FUCKING MURDER.
BIG FUCKING DIFFERENCE.