Dirty Greek - Memogate Report is Out

If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual gay sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. All of those things are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family and that's sort of where we are in today's world, unfortunately. It all comes from, I would argue, the right to privacy that doesn't exist, in my opinion, in the United States Constitution.

- Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA)

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And Kevin Drum the full report here along with a "geek summary."

Basically, the problem was the fault of the sysadmin, who left permissions open so that anyone could access the documents on the network. Apparently, no one ever reported this security failure to the sysadmin, who was fresh out of college. One Republican staffer, after showing her a few hundred pages of Dem documents he had pilfered, was told that this was unethical and the documents were shredded, but the problem was still never reported to the admin.

So, luckily, we didn't have any of our elected officials hiring hackers or anything, so the situation wasn't as bad as it could have been. It sounds like it was handled moderately well by both sides, except for the failure to report the problem to the sysadmin and the fact that some of the memos were leaked to people who shouldn't have had access to them.

Speaking of Kevin Drum, looks like congratulations are in order for him.

Finally, Josh Marshall has some more details and some more questions here. He basically says that it looks like the trail of the investigation leads to both the White House and the Justice Department, but the investigators were blocked from following those leads.

Posted By George on 03/08/2004 @ 04:23 PM | Link and Discuss (0) | More Politics
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