I'm perfectly willing to believe that Republicans have had access to Dem strategy memos for a while now, and were only caught when the last batch of memos were leaked to the press.
And nothing the GOP has done in the wake of this new outrage has changed my mind.
Earlier this week, several Judiciary Committee Republicans, including Sens. John Cornyn (Texas), Saxby Chambliss (Ga.), Jeff Sessions (Ala.), Larry Craig (Idaho), and Lindsey Graham (S.C.) objected to what they feared would become a open-ended fishing expedition into committee business.
"We strongly object to allowing anyone to read backup tapes or other electronic media from the Judiciary Committee server, the Exchange server or otherwise breach the privacy of our electronic files and communications," the lawmakers wrote in a letter to Pickle dated Nov. 22.
You see, the Democrats also "strongly object" to Republican theft of their own private communications. This investigation is more than warranted, and it's good to see that the Capitol Hill police are taking it serious.
As for the Democrats, they may be the biggest idiots on Capitol Hill -- sharing server space with their Republican foes blissfully ignorant of the blatant security concerns, but at least they are proving quick studies.
Meanwhile, the sergeant-at-arms also informed Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) that members of his office will work with the Judiciary staff to create separate computer systems for Republicans and Democrats on the committee, as the Democrats have requested.
Until now, majority and minority committee staff has shared a computer system.
The Sergeant-at-Arms has hired a hotshot counter-espionage and anti-terrorism to conduct the investigation -- part of the reason the GOoPers on the committee are starting to sweat.
While the mainstream media may be ignoring the theft, Capitol Hill police see it for the gross abuse of power it is. And despite the palpable fear of Judiciary Committee Republicans, this is not a scandal they can brush aside.