Just in case your head wasn't spinning enough already...

What I just read at BohemianMama has me attempting to pick my jaw up off the ground. Not yet being reported by the major media outlets, The Boston Globe is reporting what sounds to me like Watergate:Take II.

"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.

Democrats now claim their private memos formed
the basis for a February 2003 column by
conservative pundit Robert Novak that
revealed plans pushed by Senator Edward M.
Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, to
filibuster certain judicial nominees. Novak is
also at the center of an investigation into who
leaked the identity of a CIA agent whose
husband contradicted a Bush administration
claim about Iraqi nuclear programs.

Citing "internal Senate sources," Novak's
column described closed-door Democratic
meetings about how to handle nominees.


Though in all honesty I am not surprised that this has happened. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. The blog-o-sphere has taken hold of this with its usual vigor, and soon we will start hearing more about it in the news media - well, that is IF they can stop yammering about Dean's battle cry in Iowa.

posted by Unknown at 10:37 pm