Dino
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McDermott ended up in possession of an illegal recording of a GOP phone call, and aware of the breach of the law shared this recording with the crooked liberal press. They defended this fiend stridently. Eighteen news organizations – including ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, The Associated Press, the New York Times and the Washington Post — filed a brief backing McDermott. Because we have such a separation of politicians and the press, get it?
Of course, none of this absolved McDermott from his illegality- for which he received an Ethics Committee rebuke, and ended up paying close to $2 million dollars in fines and legal fees!
But it never stopped Democrats from their vociferous defense of this scoundrel. Any illegality was fine as long as it exposed the eeeevil Newt and Boehner...
WASHINGTON -- Potentially pushing a long-running legal dispute into a new direction, Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., has acknowledge sharing a secretly recorded phone conversation with reporters, according to a report published yesterday in a Capitol Hill newspaper.
The disclosure, reported by Roll Call, came in papers submitted by McDermott in a case brought against him by Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio. The admission was the first time McDermott had admitted to sharing the information. In the past he has refused to say whether he passed the tape recording on to reporters.
The effect, however, is unclear in a case that has swayed back and forth between two prominent politicians in a series of court decisions that included rulings by the U.S. Court of Appeals.
Boehner sued McDermott after a Florida couple used a scanner to record a December 1996 conference call in which Boehner, then-Speaker Newt Gingrich and other House leaders discussed an Ethics Committee finding against Gingrich. The couple gave the tape to McDermott, and the contents soon surfaced in news stories. The couple later pleaded guilty to unlawfully intercepting the call and were fined $500 each.
Boehner's lawsuit accused McDermott of leaking the tape in violation of a federal wiretapping law. McDermott argued that he did not break the law by receiving the tape, and that punishing him for making it public would violate his free-speech rights under the Constitution's First Amendment.
http://www.seattlepi.com/national/article/McDermott-admits-leaking-recording-in-Gingrich-1087185.php
Of course, none of this absolved McDermott from his illegality- for which he received an Ethics Committee rebuke, and ended up paying close to $2 million dollars in fines and legal fees!
But it never stopped Democrats from their vociferous defense of this scoundrel. Any illegality was fine as long as it exposed the eeeevil Newt and Boehner...
WASHINGTON -- Potentially pushing a long-running legal dispute into a new direction, Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., has acknowledge sharing a secretly recorded phone conversation with reporters, according to a report published yesterday in a Capitol Hill newspaper.
The disclosure, reported by Roll Call, came in papers submitted by McDermott in a case brought against him by Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio. The admission was the first time McDermott had admitted to sharing the information. In the past he has refused to say whether he passed the tape recording on to reporters.
The effect, however, is unclear in a case that has swayed back and forth between two prominent politicians in a series of court decisions that included rulings by the U.S. Court of Appeals.
Boehner sued McDermott after a Florida couple used a scanner to record a December 1996 conference call in which Boehner, then-Speaker Newt Gingrich and other House leaders discussed an Ethics Committee finding against Gingrich. The couple gave the tape to McDermott, and the contents soon surfaced in news stories. The couple later pleaded guilty to unlawfully intercepting the call and were fined $500 each.
Boehner's lawsuit accused McDermott of leaking the tape in violation of a federal wiretapping law. McDermott argued that he did not break the law by receiving the tape, and that punishing him for making it public would violate his free-speech rights under the Constitution's First Amendment.
http://www.seattlepi.com/national/article/McDermott-admits-leaking-recording-in-Gingrich-1087185.php
