Frist aide put on leave in probe (Dem Memo Leak)

[RamboLiberal]

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040127-104148-9830r.htm

An aide to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has been put on leave during an investigation into how Republicans gained access to Democratic memos concerning opposition to President Bush's judicial nominees.

Manuel Miranda, who works for the Tennessee Republican on judicial nominations, is on leave pending the outcome of the inquiry by the Senate sergeant-at-arms, Frist spokesman Nick Smith said yesterday. In the matter under investigation, Democratic memos stored on a computer server shared by Judiciary Committee members ended up in Republican hands.

Mr. Miranda told the Knoxville News-Sentinel that investigators were looking at work he performed for the Judiciary Committee before he joined Mr. Frist's office. "There was no stealing," he said. "No systematic surveillance. I never forwarded these memos — period."

Asked about the investigation yesterday, Mr. Frist refused to talk about it.

[maddezmom]

1. Frist needs to be put on leave n/t

[lovedems]

2. No doubt!

These people are sick! How could it not be stealing and why would I believe them anyway?

Since the republicans like to play "gotcha politics", this appointment of Pickering screams "gotcha!" They saw the judicial nominee's memo's and wanted to slam the dems.

[SoCalDem]

3. Repeat after ME...Republicans-can-do-no-wrong,Republicans-can-do-no-wrong

But, just in case they get caught, there is always a lower level flunkie to blame it on.. or failing to find someone willing to fall on the sword, just blame it on the previous administration.

carry on :)

[radwriter0555]

4. Frist is first in line for the throne for the gopers in 08...

he's their front horse.

This is good news, lol.

[Gin]

6. Maybe hes a "downer".....soon to be ground up for feed to the other

downers in the cabal...their brains are already eroding.

[bleedingheart]

5. just like the GOP to find a scapegoat...when Mr. Miranda

takes the blame and disappears he will be rewarded with some highpaying out of the way kind of job...

[pw]

7. Note the narrow denial

He doesn't say he didn't take the memo or that he didn't look at it, or that he didn't put it somewhere that other people could read it. (Not that I think an outright lie isn't also in the cards.)

[SpiralHawk]

8. The GOP and Bush are headed for the Hour of Reckoning

and it will BE HERE before the end of June.

They have pulled so much crap, they are going to choke on it.

You can bet your bippy on it.

[Thor_MN]

9. Any volunteers to have a life threatening accident right in front of Frist

so that he can save you and pull his cojones away from the fire? Didn't think so....

[Dr Fate]

10. Frist needs to answer some questions "under oath"...

...otherwise, we cant trust him. Remember during the impeachment when Republicans & the media said its okay to lie, so long as it is not "under oath?"

[dusty64]

11. And they actually

expect us to believe this aide did this without his bosses' knowledge or order. It's amazing what one can get away with when you are a rethug. I think maybe we should all register as repubes and that way life could be a free for all and we could throw ALL those pesky laws in the trashheap.