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May 01, 2007

Hmmmm

I'm sure we won't hear much about this...

Congressman loses taped-call ruling
Appeals court rules McDermott wrong to leak illegally recorded call

Rep. Jim McDermott had no right to disclose the contents of an illegally taped telephone call involving House Republican leaders a decade ago, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

In a 5-4 opinion, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that McDermott, a Washington Democrat, should not have given reporters access to the taped telephone call.

McDermott’s offense was especially egregious since he was a senior member of the House ethics committee, the panel ruled.

...The ruling upholds a judgment in favor of House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, who was among several GOP leaders heard on the December 1996 call, which involved ethics allegations against then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.

McDermott, a Washington state Democrat who was serving on the ethics panel at the time, leaked the tape to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The New York Times, which published stories on the case in January 1997.


...or, if we do, he becomes a freedom fighter martyr type.

Posted by tree hugging sister at May 1, 2007 03:32 PM

Comments

Ah, McDermott, the moonbat congresscritter from Western Washington. Makes me wish I was born in Antarctica.

Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at May 2, 2007 01:20 AM