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Democrat Dirty Tricks

One of them comes back to haunt a leading House liberal. But who gave him the okay? Also: Deciding Bush’s travels will cost him.
p> AN ADMISSIBLE ADMISSION br> Rep. James McDermott acknowledged in court papers last month that he leaked to two reporters a recording made of a cell phone call between Rep. John Boehner and then-Speaker Newt Gingrich , Rep. Dick Armey and Rep. Tom DeLay . The conversation between the House leadership included how best to spin the expected House Ethics Committee report on Gingrich’s fundraising tactics for non-House related projects. /p>

A Florida couple using a scanner intercepted the December 1996 conference call, most likely picking up the signal from Boehner’s cell phone. The couple then traveled to Washington, D.C. and handed the tape over to McDermott, a liberal Democrat from Washington state and then member of the House Ethics Committee, who says he listened to the tape, considered it to be of significant public interest, and then leaked its contents to two Capitol Hill reporters.

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John Boehner, Bill Clinton, Law

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