Republican Hackers

The DNC sent me a thoughful note yesterday. I knew both of the stories below, but I didn’t realize the timing between them. They rubbed me the wrong way when I heard them and hearing them presented in this fashion really sticks in my craw:

President Bush bypassed the Senate confirmation process and appointed Charles Pickering to a lifetime seat on the federal bench just hours after laying a wreath at the grave of Martin Luther King, Jr.

That was just their way of stoking the fire, though. This was the real point of their email:

the Boston Globe reported that Republican staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee repeatedly accessed computer files belonging to Democratic members over the course of the year

Since the example was made of Kevin Mitnick before the “Patriot” Act, I can’t wait to see what the government does to the hacker responsible for this crime. Surely the GOP’s partisan spying — tantamount to an electronic Watergate — will lead to a slew of arrests with the criminals being jaled for several years before charges are officialy drawn up, and then the defendants will have to process their case with paper and ink since allowing them access to computers would further their criminal activites.

That’s gonna happen, right?

Posted by etrigan at January 26, 2004 7:55 AM