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02/05/2004 Archived Entry: "It's all in how you say it..."
It's all in how you say it...
This is interesting. Salon reports:
One of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's key staffers will resign Friday because of an investigation into how Republicans gained access to Democratic memos concerning opposition to President Bush's judicial nominees.Manuel Miranda, who worked for the Tennessee Republican on judicial nominations, has been on leave since late last month because of the investigation into how Democratic memos stored on a computer server shared by Judiciary Committee members ended up in GOP hands.
Hold up. That name sounds familiar...
Manuel Miranda, judicial counsel to Majority Leader Frist, discusses Miguel Estrada's withdraw of his nomination for Circuit Court
Ain't it nice how they try to portray Frist's lawyer as somw staffer who hacked into the Dem computers because he got done his midterms early or something?
And what the fuck is up with this resignation? The guy's a goddam lawyer - he must have known what he was doing was wrong, right?
Prosecute the sumbitch. Fullest. Extent. Of. The. Law.
Replies: 2 people speak up
hang him, draw and quarter him, grind him up and burn what's left over..... well, thats probobly going overboard. lets just ship him to Gitmo with Novak and Rove
Posted by justin @ 02/05/2004 11:31 PM NY
Every time I think I have finally gotten as cynical as it is possible to be, something like this comes along (AP story at NY times late on a Friday)(the traditional day for dumping stories you don't want covered since "nobody reads news on the weekend"):
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A former aide to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist who resigned amid an investigation into Democratic strategy memos leaked to the media filed a Senate ethics complaint Friday alleging ``public corruption'' by Democratic senators and staff.
Manuel Miranda said in a letter to Robert Walker, the Senate Ethics Committee's chief counsel, that the memos show ``a violation of the public trust in the judicial confirmation process on the part of Democratic senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee.''
Posted by Xan @ 02/06/2004 08:10 PM NY
