The Seattle Times is reporting that a Washington State Republican Party office has been burglarized.
The Washington state headquarters for the president’s re-election campaign was broken into last night, and police are investigating the theft of three computers from the Bellevue office.
Missing are laptop computers used by the campaign’s executive director, the head of the get-out-the-vote effort and one that had been set for delivery to the campaign’s Southwest Washington field director, said Jon Seaton, executive director of the state’s George W. Bush campaign.
Seaton said data on the computers was backed up and available elsewhere. But, he said, the loss creates a potential security breach about the campaign’s so-called 72-hour plan, the Bush get-out-the-vote effort.
“Obviously there’s some stuff there we wouldn’t want our opposition getting their hands on,” Seaton said.
No word on whether Dan Rather will cover this story. Rather covered another famous break-in though, long ago. That’s when he declared that by now, he’d be selling insurance:
“A serious journalist can’t run with a story without confirmation. Two sources at the absolute minimum….This is how your narrator made it through Watergate. If I’d gone off half-cocked, if I’d gotten my facts scrambled, if I’d run with unconfirmed leads, I’d be selling insurance right now.”
— Dan Rather in his 1994 memoir, The Camera Never Blinks Twice, page 97.
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