Stop, Thief!
No Right To Privacy From Snooping Democrats
By Dan McLaughlin Posted in 2006 — Comments (6) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
So, it turns out that a liberal blogger hacked into a password-protected section of Minnesota GOP Senate candidate Mark Kennedy's website to get an unauthorized peek at Kennedy's campaign ads before they ran. The blogger - a Democratic consultant - apparently did this illegally, and Democratic candidate Amy Klobuchar has now fired her chief spokeswoman, who viewed the purloined ads. This follows on the heels of California Democrat Phil Angelides' campaign admission that it accessed a taped conversation that was password protected on a Web site operated by Governor Schwarzenegger's campaign. Technology has sure come a long way since the days when John Kerry's brother broke into the basement of an opponent's headquarters.
Now, the Minnesota Democrat's defense is to claim that Kennedy's website was too vulnerable to snoopers like him. You may remember a case a few years back when the shoe was on the other foot, and Democrats embarrassed by highly damaging internal Judiciary Committee memos (showing them taking direction on judicial nominees from far-left interest groups, targeting one nominee because he was Latino and stalling another at the request of participants in a pending case) demanded an investigation of a GOP staffer who snooped on their files. So, for all those who were outraged by that story or thought it worthy of media attention, here's your chance to denounce Klobuchar and Angelides:
Paging Walter Pincus and the Washington Post.
Paging Michael Crowley and the New Republic.
Paging Josh Marshall.
Paging Media Matters.
Paging Kevin Drum.
Paging Dahlia Lithwick and Slate.
Paging Armando. (And this Kos diarist and this one too).
Paging The Carpetbagger Report.
Paging Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
Well, you get the idea.
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Also, wasn't one of David Brock's employees nabbed for doing some unsavory stuff in Maryland while "on loan" to the Maryland Democratic Party?
Sitting out is a vote for KOS.
it would be no surprise if one of his employees was also.
Didn't a Schumer staffer illegally obtain Michael Steele's credit report at one time, too? What ever happened to that case? I heard the staffer was fired, but for something that serious, wouldn't criminal charges also be filed?
Daniel Ellsberg.
Those Woodward and Bernstein fellows.
John Dean.
Well, you get the idea.
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Evil men hide from the truth, but good men stand upon it.
The Senate memos were not password protected, but simply on a Senate server. They were probably in a Democrat directory, but were Senate domain material.
That's a lot more fair game than content on campaign hardware (as opposed to the People's hardware at the Senate) and/or behind password authentication.
And it just never changes. Remember, the content of the judiciary memos was greatly outweighed by MSM consternation over how they were obtained. Since the shoe is on the other foot, though -- naturally -- it's the content, not how it was obtained.
Oh, and the culprit's probably just another Republican plant, anyway, right?