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A New Watergate? GOP Members of Senate Judiciary Break Into
Democrats Computer System
Michael Moore on Wesley Clark, Mumia Abu Jamal, the Democratic
Presidential Debate and More
8:01-8:06 Headlines
8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break
8:07-8:20 A New Watergate? GOP Members of Senate
Judiciary Break Into Democrats Computer System
INTRO: Republican staff members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary
Committee infiltrated Democratic computer files for a year,
monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing
on copies to the media. We speak with the Boston Globe reporter
who broke the story.
An explosive article in the Boston Globe Thursday begins:
“Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary
Committee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year,
monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing
on copies to the media, Senate officials told The Globe.
“From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003,
members of the GOP committee staff exploited a computer glitch
that allowed them to access restricted Democratic communications
without a password. Trolling through hundreds of memos, they
were able to read talking points and accounts of private meetings
discussing which judicial nominees Democrats would fight --
and with what tactics.
“The office of Senate Sergeant-at-Arms William Pickle
has already launched an investigation into how excerpts from
15 Democratic memos showed up in the pages of the conservative-leaning
newspapers and were posted to a website last November.”
8:20-8:21 One Minute Music Break
8:21-58 Michael Moore on Wesley Clark, Mumia Abu
Jamal, the Democratic Presidential Debate and More
INTRO: Academy award-winning documentary filmmaker, television
producer and author Michael Moore joins us in our firehouse
studios to discuss his endorsement of Democratic presidential
candidate Wesley Clark, hearing his name during the Democratic
presidential debate in New Hampshire, the controversy surrounding
the mention of death row prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal in his latest
book, and much more.
Last night, the remaining Democratic candidates had their
final debate ahead of next Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary.
The last week has seen a tightening of the race. The latest
ARG poll has John Kerry at 31%, Wesley Clark at 20% and Howard
Dean 18%. That means that from January 19th to January 22nd
Dean fell from 28% to 18%. In the last 24 hours, Dean dropped
4 percentage points.
This past weekend in New Hampshire, Wesley Clark got a boost
from academy award winning filmmaker Michael Moore, who endorsed
Clark at a campaign rally at Dartmouth College.
- Michael Moore, award-winning documentary filmmaker, television
producer and author.
Link: www.michaelmoore.com
8:58-8:59 Outro and Credits
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