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The number of leak probes is getting confusing. Now the wires are reporting progress in the one that has to do with Republicans Senate staff gaining access to Democratic senate staffs' memoes on administration judicial nominees for over a year. And that investigation is apparently zeroing in now on an official from the office of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.
"Manuel Miranda, who works for the Tennessee Republican on judicial nominations, is on leave pending the outcome of the inquiry by the Senate sergeant-at-arms, Frist spokesman Nick Smith said Tuesday," the AP reports. "...Miranda told The Knoxville News-Sentinel that investigators were looking at work he performed for the Judiciary Committee before he joined Frist's office. 'There was no stealing,' he said. 'No systematic surveillance. I never forwarded these memos -- period.'"
--"No systematic surveillance" does sound more than a bit qualified to me.