Curmudgeonly & Skeptical

As Good As Gross Negligence?

Democrats today again accused Republican staffers of -- "stealing" their computer memos about President Bush's judicial nominees, but one of the world's best-known computer security experts, a lifelong Democrat, insists staffers from his own party are to blame.

Ira Winkler, writing in the National Review, says Democratic staffers with the Senate Judiciary Committee left the memos on a computer for months after being informed they were insecure... by a Republican. And that, Winkler says, is not a crime but -- "gross negligence. ... the electronic equivalent of leaving the files in the Capitol rotunda." - Brit  Hume

And guess who that comes down to.  Yeppir, the same Leaky-Lips Leahy who was thrown off the Senate Intel Comittee for revealing Top Secret information. BTW, Ira Winkler is a lifelong Democrat and security professional.