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The Weblog at The View from the Core - Tue. 02/17/04 05:34:57 PM
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More on Democratic Memos By Quin Hillyer at NRO today: A group of some 20 conservative activists gave two Republican senators an earful last Thursday evening, demanding that the Senate spend less time criticizing now-departed staffers and more time blasting Senate Democrats for the sleazy content of the Democratic memoranda that the departed staffers perused. But the activists came away unsatisfied.... Republican senators ought to gird up their loins. They should remember that the reason Democrats gave for blocking Estrada's nomination was that the White House would not release memos Estrada wrote while working for both Republican and Democratic solicitors general. Those memos, unlike the Senate ones in question, are legally protected from disclosure, and every living solicitor, of both parties, condemned the Democrats' request. Moreover, no Democrat alleged that the Estrada memos contained any evidence of criminal or ethical transgressions. Now, Republican staffer Miranda demands an investigation of Democratic memos that are not legally protected, and in which he says there are legally actionable transgressions. Miranda's snooping aside, why should those Democrat documents be immune from investigation by an outside, nonpartisan official, whether the Sergeant at Arms or the Justice Department? And either way, why should Republican senators refrain from criticizing the Democrats for the awful contents of the 14 memos already made public? Serious transgressions are serious transgressions, no matter how they come to light. See also Democratic Memos Need Special Prosecutor. Lane Core Jr. CIW P Tue. 02/17/04 05:34:57 PM |
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