Here is the
top story in the Boston Globe today, reporting that Republican staff members in the Senate Judiciary Committee and Frist's office were accessing computer files of the Democratic members and distributing selections to Bob Novack and other press members.
Apparently, Hatch is mortified and some of the Rs are lining up the (IMHO rather spurious) defense to criminal charges that the documents discussing strategy were not "official business".
Two questions for the board: First, is this getting play elsewhere? I didn't see it on the front page of the times. Second, if this is the Republican's definition of "official business", can I get all their political files without any redaction through an FOIA request (the files are government property)? How about Cheney's?
(On the editorial side, it strikes me it is time for Hatch & Frist to hang some staffers out to dry and give them some free government funded room and board for a while).
