Hacking Incident Riles Democrats
Senate panel members demand outside probe of accessing of files by two Republican staffers. A poorly protected computer system and two zealous Republican staff members were to blame for computer files written by Democratic staff members being handed over to conservative interest groups and the media, a Senate investigation has determined. The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday released Sergeant-at-Arms William Pickle’s three-month investigation into the accessing of Democratic staff files. Democrats on the panel immediately called for an outside investigation into what they call the unprecedented theft of one party’s internal documents by another party on Capitol Hill. Full Story