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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (52033)	1/19/2006 4:02:41 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 93284

Who's Paying The Bill? by Matt Margolis :: October 4, 2005 1:55 PM While the media focuses solely on Tom DeLay's indictment, the dark ethical cloud over Chuck Schumer and the DSCC still goes virtually unnoticed. Newsday, however, is following the story... The two women at the center of the FBI probe [DSCC researchers Katie Barge, 26, and Lauren Weiner, 25] have been keeping a low profile. Both have resigned from the committee. Barge and Weiner declined to comment through their lawyer, William Lawler III, the ex-president of the Washington, D.C., bar association who represented former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey during his 2004 sex scandal. The DSCC is picking up the tab for Lawler, who charges as much as $400 an hour. Barge quit a job overseeing a research staff of six at David Brock's liberal watchdog organization Media Matters to take the DSCC job. She is highly regarded in the tight-knit community of Democratic researchers, friends and associates say. [emphasis mine] UPDATE: A great editorial from Investor's Business Daily notes, "While the media focus on House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's alleged skirting of campaign laws to get Republicans elected, former Education Secretary Bill Bennett's alleged racially insensitive hypothetical regarding blacks, crime and abortion, and Sen. Bill Frist's recent sale of stock, a real crime against a black politician has been committed in virtual silence." Can you imagine the media firestorm if staffers for, say, Frist, had used Barack Obama's Social Security number to fraudulently obtain his credit report looking for stuff to derail his Senate campaign? Frist would have been before a media firing squad faster than you can say Bill Bennett. Also interesting is that while President Bush has accepted responsibility for the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina, Chuck Schumer hasn't even offered an apology for the invasion of Steele's privacy perpetrated by his staffers. UPDATE, 10/6/05: The New York Times picks up the story... finally... However, Michelle Malkin notes several omissions from the article, including Barge's previous employment at Media Matters, how Steele's credit report was stolen by Weiner, or how both Barge and Weiner were employed by Chuck Schumer, the self-proclaimed champion of privacy... and let's not forget who's paying their legal bills... UPDATE: Also noteworthy, Katie Barge worked for John Edwards' presidential campaign before joining with Media Matters: In Mr. Brock's new K Street offices on Friday morning, a team of nearly a half-dozen researchers, overseen by Katie Barge, who last worked for the opposition research arm of Senator John Edwards's presidential campaign, sat before a bank of computers and televisions in a room that was otherwise dark. More specifically, according to some background info on Katie Barge from craigslist, she was the "opposition research director" for Edwards' campaign.