Watergate II!

[bascule]

So it's not really Watergate II, and it's all over /. already, but it's actually on topic for this board! Whoa!

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/ar..._as_extensive/

WASHINGTON -- 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.

Sounds like the Democrats need some better SAs...

[astcell]

But first the democrats need intelligent ideas worthy of an NTFS partition.

[Gadsden]

So it's not really Watergate II, and it's all over /. already, but it's actually on topic for this board! Whoa!

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/ar..._as_extensive/



Sounds like the Democrats need some better SAs...

Watergate 2.0

Now... let's see how quick they are to enforce those "cyber terrorism" laws they wanted..

[Clp727]

Yep, this must be the real reason GWB wants to keep the Patriot Act alive....to spy on the democrats!

[BackatchaBandit]

Not just 'The Democrats', though...

Gun appears in court tomorrow accused of breaching the Official Secrets Act by allegedly leaking details of a secret US 'dirty tricks' operation to spy on UN Security Council members in the run-up to war in Iraq last year. If found guilty, she faces two years in prison.

US stars hail Iraq war whistleblower

[astcell]

What part of WAR does she not understand? In WWII Churchill would have shot her himself.

[BackatchaBandit]

What part of WAR does she not understand? In WWII Churchill would have shot her himself.

You may consider it a technicality, but at the time of her actions nobody was actually 'at War'. Which is probably why the quote above reads 'in the run-up to'. However, this is what she had to say for herself:

At the time Gun, who was sacked after her arrest and whose case is funded by legal aid, said in a statement: 'Any disclosures that may have been made were justified on the following grounds: because they exposed serious illegality and wrongdoing on the part of the US government who attempted to subvert our own security services; and to prevent wide-scale death and casualties among ordinary Iraqi people and UK forces in the course of an illegal war.'

She added: 'I have only ever followed my conscience.' '

I have no doubt that Churchill wouldn't have hesitated to have her shot - he didn't when it came to striking miners (Tonypandy, 1910) and there was no war on then, either - nor was there when on 19 February, 1920 he wrote to Sir Hugh Trenchard about what a jolly fine idea it might be to gas the Kurds. ;)

[ch0l0man]

hackgate :D