Memory Hole: Republican Staffers Hacked Congressional Servers.

[myrna minx]

While Republicans whine about the Waxmann subpoenas...


http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/05/judiciary.memos.ap/

Thursday, February 5, 2004 Posted: 9:50 PM EST (0250 GMT)
Frist staffer to resign over memos

WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's key staffers will resign Friday because of an investigation into how Republicans gained access to Democratic memos concerning opposition to President Bush's judicial nominees.


http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/01/22/infiltration_of_files_seen_as_extensive/

Infiltration of files seen as extensive
Senate panel's GOP staff pried on Democrats
By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | January 22, 2004

WASHINGTON -- Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee 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.


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