McDermott: Illegal Tape Recording About Voter’s Rights

Oh give me a break…

WASHINGTON – Rep. Jim McDermott says his eight-year dispute with House Majority Leader John Boehner over an intercepted telephone call is not personal, but involves a crucial right of voters to know what their leaders are doing.
“Unfortunately, it’s portrayed in the paper as Boehner v. McDermott. It really is the government versus the people,” McDermott, D-Wash., said Friday in an interview with The Associated Press.
McDermott commented three days after a federal appeals court ruling against him in the long-running dispute.
In a 2-1 opinion Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld a lower-court ruling that McDermott had unlawfully obtained a copy of an illegally intercepted phone conversation between Boehner, then-Speaker Newt Gingrich and other House GOP leaders in December 1996.
McDermott has acknowledged leaking a tape of the call to The New York Times and other news organizations.

If McDermott believes this is about voter’s rights he probably won’t mind if I start recording all of his private phone conversations for distribution to the public.
What’s scary is that the media is 100% behind McDermott in his legal struggle. Which is dumb because the journalists in the media would no doubt be upset if their personal phone calls were recorded.
I guess to journalists and people like McDermott privacy protections just don’t apply to Republicans.