Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Partisan Spying; for real

An example that the news media all but ignored and we had almost forgotten.

IMPEACH, TRY AND JAIL FOR LIFE!

Daily Kos: [UPDATED] The FBI Busts Goss, Wilkes, and the GOP Domestic Spy Industry:

"'Wary' reminds us of an example of Republican political spying that was kept so quiet by the mass media that you probably never heard about it. In November 2003, GOP staff to Senator Hatch, then the Chair of the Judiciary Committee, intercepted and leaked the e-mails of Democratic members. For reasons that weren't made clear, Hatch gave up that powerful post and Arlen Specter took over the Chair.
In addition to fact that this tawdry incident of political spying was all but ignored by most papers, there is a very familiar side to the story -- Robert Novak picked up the story, and spun it in his November 29, 2003 column.

There is a persistent M.O. to these GOP dirty-tricks. Plamegate wasn't the first hack and leak attack, and since passage of Patriot-2 gives the White House even more power to conduct warrantless surveillance, it likely won't be the last."

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