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Author Message   themp Citizen Username: Themp Post Number: 407 Registered: 12-2001 Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 11:35 am:        Holy crow! http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/01/22/infiltration_of_files_seen _as_extensive/ Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing on copies to the media, Senate officials told The Globe. From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003, members of the GOP committee staff exploited a computer glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic communications without a password. Trolling through hundreds of memos, they were able to read talking points and accounts of private meetings discussing which judicial nominees Democrats would fight -- and with what tactics. The office of Senate Sergeant-at-Arms William Pickle has already launched an investigation into how excerpts from 15 Democratic memos showed up in the pages of the conservative-leaning newspapers and were posted to a website last November. With the help of forensic computer experts from General Dynamics and the US Secret Service, his office has interviewed about 120 people to date and seized more than half a dozen computers -- including four Judiciary servers, one server from the office of Senate majority leader Bill Frist of Tennessee, and several desktop hard drives. But the scope of both the intrusions and the likely disclosures is now known to have been far more extensive than the November incident, staffers and others familiar with the investigation say. (more)   Earlster Citizen Username: Earlster Post Number: 109 Registered: 8-2003 Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 11:46 am:        Just shows us how high 'morale and ethics' are the priorities list of these 'cowboys with the white hats'   tom Citizen Username: Tom Post Number: 1832 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 12:54 pm:        Imagine if the contents of those infamous "FBI Files" from the early Clinton years had ended up in "The Nation" or "The New Republic"?   tom Citizen Username: Tom Post Number: 1833 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 4:03 pm:        http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20031001-113800-2356r Note the URL -- Washington Times.   Greatest Straw of all time! Citizen Username: Strawberry Post Number: 1817 Registered: 10-2001 Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 10:25 pm:        yawn BUSH/CHENEY IN 2004..