Nope, nothing illegal going on here

The party of Watergate just never learns.

GOP Aides Implicated In Memo Downloads

A three-month investigation by the Senate's top law enforcement officer found a systematic downloading of thousands of Democratic computer files by Republican staffers over the past few years as well as serious flaws in the chamber's computer security system.

...Pickle and his investigators said forensics analyses indicated that 4,670 files had been downloaded between November 2001 and spring 2003 by one of the aides -- "the majority of which appeared to be from folders belonging to Democratic staff" on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Unintimidated, here's what one of the Republican snoops had to say. This man, Miranda, worked on Majority Leader Frist's staff, so it's not far-fetched to assume that Frist had access to these Democrat memos.

In a statement e-mailed to reporters, Miranda said the report "fails to find any criminal hacking or credible suggestion of criminal acts," and called on Hatch to investigate the substance of the Democratic memos. He accused Pickle of having "acted improperly toward me from the first day I met with the investigators."

Read that over again, "[having] acted improperly toward me from the first day I met with the investigators." That's rich. Miranda has no place in determining who has and hasn't acted improperly during this investigation when all he needed to do to avoid meeting the investigators was not act improperly and peek at Democrat files. Dur. Not only did he see the files, but he (or somebody he gave the files to) leaked them to the press. But this poor baby is whining about investigators treating him "improperly." Earth to dipshit: Stop committing crimes, then you won't meet investigators.