{"id":1419,"date":"2004-03-17T14:55:28","date_gmt":"2004-03-17T19:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1419.html"},"modified":"2004-03-17T14:55:28","modified_gmt":"2004-03-17T19:55:28","slug":"one-step-closer-to-a-criminal-investigation-for-memogate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/one-step-closer-to-a-criminal-investigation-for-memogate\/","title":{"rendered":"One step closer to a criminal investigation for Memogate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two weeks after Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Bill Pickle released a report<\/a> documenting GOP staffers stealing thousands of Dems documents for 18 months, the matter is poised to go the DoJ<\/a> for a criminal probe.<\/p>\n

The matter bounced around the Judiciary Committee members themselves last week, in the hopes that a bi-partisan approach could be identified. When senators couldn’t reach a resolution — only three Republicans were willing to endorse the Dems’ call for an independent investigator — committee chairman Orrin Hatch left it to Pickle’s discretion. Apparently, he’s made a decision.<\/p>\n

Senate Sergeant at Arms Bill Pickle said Tuesday that he would give his report on how Republican aides obtained internal Democratic Judiciary Committee memos to the Justice Department for a possible criminal prosecution.<\/p>\n

Pickle told The Hill he would act this week, perhaps as soon as today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At a minimum, Pickle seems to believe there are grounds for prosecution.<\/p>\n

“We’ve obviously highlighted some potential criminal [violations],” he added. “It is up to the Department of Justice as the experts to decide if they want to review it.”
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\nIt makes sense to send this to Justice. Pickle’s investigation drew a series of important conclusions — most notably that the GOP aides violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and that Frist aide Manuel Miranda could be prosecuted for making false statements to investigators.<\/p>\n

But given the power of the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms’ office, there was no subpoena power and no way of expanding the probe to know who else received and\/or took advantage of the leaked Dem documents. We’ll see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two weeks after Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Bill Pickle released a report documenting GOP staffers stealing thousands of Dems documents for 18 months, the matter is poised to go the DoJ for a criminal probe. The matter bounced around the Judiciary Committee members themselves last week, in the hopes that a bi-partisan approach could be identified. When […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}