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dgdsk@tiac.net wrote:
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: In nyc.general Steve Manes <smanes@NOSPAM.HEREmagpie.com> wrote:
: > On Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:27:03 GMT, dorfman@netcom.com (Merlin Dorfman)
: > wrote:
: > >     They exist.  Congress and Ken Starr have seen them.  Neither found
: > >any indication that it was more than a bureaucratic screw-up, though the
: > >guy who did the screwing up (Livingstone?) has a rather unsavory 
: > >background and we might ask how he wound up with a sensitive security
: > >job in the White House.

: > Might as well ask how a neurotic wacko like Linda Tripp ever landed a
: > top security clearance too.

: Might as well. Did she also pull 800 files of Republicans?

     No, she was much more directly trying to subvert her boss.

: Hey, pal. I'll just bet, you know, I'll just bet, that if someone in the
: Bush White house had hired someone to pull 800 files of Democrats you
: would get just a wee bit more upset about it. And wouldn't just sit there
: content, with a stupid shit-eating grin on your face, when told that no
: one remembers who hired him.

     Well, as it happens, a very similar incident DID happen in the
Bush White House.  The Democrats, fools that they are, allowed the
opportunity to make political capital pass them by.