Senate Republican staffer put on leave for accessing Democratic files...

[a_random_joel]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/11/25/national1948EST0744.DTL&type=printable

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WASHINGTON(AP) -- Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch said Tuesday he had put one of his staffers on administrative leave for improperly obtaining data from the secure computer networks of two Democratic senators.

Hatch, R-Utah, said preliminary interviews suggested that a former Republican member of the committee staff may have also been involved in penetrating the Democratic computers.

"I was shocked to learn that this may have occurred," Hatch said in a statement. "I am mortified that this improper, unethical and simply unacceptable breach of confidential files may have occurred on my watch."

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Hatch was shocked, shocked! This is certainly an interesting development. Talk about memo-gate... I call this hack-gate!
Sorry if this is a dup. That is why I did not post in LBN.

[Richardo]

1. Starring Claude Rains as Senator Orrin Hatch...

My take exactly, a_random_joel.

[kentuck]

2. Yeah, he will be on leave thru the holidays and the month of December..

Just like the Seantors..

[Loonman]

3. Classic Repub playground games

They're complaining about the contents of the memo, which aren't all that inflammatory to begin with, when the memo was illegally obtained, and illegally passed on to Sean Hannity.

[UTUSN]

4. Kick for Focus on Our Real Enemy (as opposed to other Dems) n/t