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____________________________ DC CONFIDENTIAL February 12, 2004 This is a SPECIAL EDITION of "DC Confidential." And as the following fast-breaking matter is REALLY important to all conservatives, I'm sharing this one with the entire "News & Views" list rather than just Goldwater Club members. If you'd like to receive future editions of DC Confidential (usually published weekly on Sunday mornings), just make a contribution of $5 or more to Citizen Outreach by visiting our "Donate" page at www.citizenoutreach.com ____________________________ MIRANDA WARNING There is a real "inside baseball" firestorm brewing in the halls of the Capitol. Tensions are high. Nerves are raw. You probably aren't hearing much about it outside the Beltway, but the spit is really hitting the spam here on the inside. Manny Miranda - that now-former staffer from Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's office who was hung out to dry over those 14 leaked memos showing Democrat collusion with left-wing special interest groups to block President Bush's judicial nominees - isn't just going quietly into the night. Miranda is letting everyone know there were hundreds, if not thousands, of memos which may prove even more embarrassing to the Democrats than the original dozen-plus. Maybe even criminal. Those memos are stored on a computer hard-drive which was confiscated by the Senate sergeant at arms, William Pickle, who was tasked with investigating the memo leak. Miranda thinks everyone should see them. To that end, he filed an official ethics complaint this week requesting that the impounded files be made public. Here's the letter... *** QUOTE *** Robert Walker Chief Counsel United States Senate Ethics Committee Hart Office Building Washington, D.C. Re: Evidence of Public Corruption Dear Mr. Walker: With this letter I hereby inform the Ethics Committee, pursuant to Clause 9 of the Code of Ethics for Government Service, that I have read documents evidencing public corruption by elected officials and staff of the United States Senate. Specifically, in addition to the 14 documents published in the Wall Street Journal on November 14, 2003 and now posted at www.fairjudiciary.com, I have knowledge of other still unpublished documents that evidence a violation of the public trust in the judicial confirmation process on the part of Democrat senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee. This includes evidence of the direct influencing of the Senate's advice and consent role by the promise of campaign funding and election support in the last mid-term election. The proof of my Clause 9 disclosure is currently held and preserved by the Sergeant at Arms in a hard drive belonging to the young Hatch staffer who discovered a glitch in the Judiciary Committee's shared server that allowed these documents to be read. This hard drive was seized over two months ago in the course of the current Democrat memos investigation. Please let me know if this letter suffices to bring this matter forward. Very truly yours, Manuel Miranda *** UNQUOTE *** Hoo-hah! Sounds like the Sergeant at Arms is sitting on a boatload of smoking guns. Sure hope they don't "disappear" the same way as Hillary's Rose Law Firm billing records. Remember, it's not paranoia when they really ARE out to get you. Suffice it to say, a growing number of conservatives fear that Sergeant of Arms William Pickle might destroy the incriminating memos before they ever have a chance to see the light of day. Oh, did I mention that Pickle was a big Al Gore supporter from Tennessee? I 'm told he used to work on Gore's Secret Service detail. No partisan bias there, huh? Anyway, conservatives are frantically mobilizing to assure preservation of the memos which, to the best of anyone's knowledge, can be found ONLY on the hard drive of the computer currently locked away in Pickle's safe-keeping. To that end, the following coalition letter by a number of conservative organizations - which Citizen Outreach quickly signed onto - has been sent in an effort to protect and preserve the files... *** QUOTE *** Mr. Noel Hillman Chief, Public Integrity Section Criminal Division U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20531-0001 10 February 2004 Dear Mr. Hillman: In a recent complaint addressed to the U.S. Senate Ethics Committee, Mr. Manuel Miranda, former Majority Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and General Counsel to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, apprised Committee Chief Counsel Robert Walker of the following revelation: "I have read documents evidencing public corruption by elected officials and staff of the United States Senate. . . . This includes evidence of the direct influencing of the Senate's advice and consent role by the promise of campaign funding and election support in the last mid-term election. . . . The proof of my Clause 9 [Code of Ethics for Government Service] disclosure is currently held and preserved by the Sergeant at Arms in a hard drive belonging to the young Hatch staffer who discovered a glitch in the Judiciary Committee's shared server that allowed these documents to be read. This hard drive was seized over two months ago in the course of the current Democrat memos investigation." Miranda has also made this statement in writing: "The ones [memos already] made public are the least indicting of the documents I came to see." Upon information and belief, we the undersigned tender the following allegations in support of our request for an investigation. The Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate is in the sole possession of credible and unambiguous evidence of crimes that fall within the jurisdiction the Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice. These documents are in no way, shape, or form privileged or otherwise confidential. Even in the event such a dubious and hollow claim for privacy is made [either by the custodian or the likely targets of a prospective criminal investigation], a wealth of case law holds that such a consideration must necessarily be subordinated to and trumped by their probative value and relevance to a criminal investigation. We humbly suggest that agents of the United States Department of Justice should endeavor to take immediate possession of the aforementioned memoranda so as to preclude the possibility that [negligent or unscrupulous] employees of the Office of the Sergeant at Arms do not inadvertently or intentionally destroy evidence of a crime. Lest you fear duplication or concurrent jurisdiction between investigative arms of the executive and legislative branches, please note that the investigation of the Sergeant at Arms is exclusively focused upon and limited to the mere propriety of the method of partial disclosure of the memoranda, not their content. In short, these memoranda have not yet been examined or scrutinized with an eye towards ascertaining the applicability of criminal statutes to the conduct of their authors and recipients. The Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice has both a statutory duty and moral imperative to probe the relevant criminal misconduct that is manifested by and memorialized through these memoranda. Thank you in advance for your immediate attention to this grave matter of public concern. *** UNQUOTE *** The Washington Times wrote about the letter today (http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040211-102204-9040r.htm). Not sure if it's hit the radar screen of anyone else in the "mainstream media," though. Probably not. While this brouhaha may seem like "inside baseball" to folks outside the Beltway, it is a HUGE storm inside. The Democrats are desperately trying to cover their "donkeys" and do NOT want these memos made public. They're even going so far as to compare the incident to Watergate. However, this so-called "hacking" into a shared computer system is being described by insiders as simply "double-clicking on a mouse." Some "hack." Apparently the Democrat geniuses in the Senate never heard of the word "password." Rest assured, this isn't the last you'll hear about this. Not only is it a fight between Democrats and Republicans, it's a GOP intra-party fight led by conservatives who are royally PO'd at Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch for pushing the "hacking" investigation forward rather than putting the Democrat's in the docks for the ethics violations described in the leaked memos, as well as at Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist for throwing Miranda overboard and letting the Kennedy/Schumer sharks have at him. Ding-ding. The fur is flying! Step right up, ladies and gentlemen. Get your tickets. This is gonna be a show you don't want to miss. And I'll try to continue giving you a front-row seat. Get your peanuts here! 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