Hat tip to The Black Republican for this story. This story is just the latest in a number of Democrat scandals that have surfaced recently. The revelations of the Barrett Report are stunning yet the mainstream media is showing no interest in finding out what the redacted pages have to say. Not to mention the slashing of tires in Wisconsin by Democrat operatives on the morning of the 2004 election.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Rep. Jim McDermott violated federal law by turning over an illegally taped telephone call to reporters nearly a decade ago.
In a 2-1 opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld a lower court ruling that McDermott violated the rights of Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, who was heard on the 1996 call involving then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.
The court ordered McDermott to pay Boehner more than $700,000 for leaking the taped conversation. The figure includes $60,000 in damages and at least $600,000 in legal costs.
McDermott, D-Wash., has acknowledged leaking a tape of a 1996 cell phone call involving Gingrich to The New York Times and other news organizations.
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