Well, finally: the Washington Post today published a story on page A5 touching on the computer file incidents in Congress, saying that a Bill Frist (Terror Victim, R) staffer has resigned:
The counsel on judicial nominations for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has resigned in response to a probe of how Republican staff members gained access to Democratic computer files on President Bush’s most controversial choices for the federal judiciary.
Aides to Frist said the resignation of Manuel Miranda, who has been on leave pending outcome of the inquiry, was accepted last week and takes effect today.
Last week? Why didn’t they run this story then? Why, oh why, doesn’t this story have legs?
Miranda’s resignation comes in the midst of an investigation by the Senate sergeant-at-arms, with help from the Secret Service and forensic experts, into whether GOP staffers improperly or perhaps illegally tapped into Democratic strategy memos on a computer server shared by Judiciary Committee members of both parties. The activity continued for months, and reports of the memos’ contents appeared in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Times.
… Some conservative advocacy groups have … denied any impropriety on the part of Miranda and other GOP aides. They said scrutiny should focus instead on contents of the Democratic files.
Hmm. That’s like if you broke in to your neighbors house and stole some porn, then when the cops came, you told them “yeah, but you should see what they were reading.”
