The American Spectator

“She saw everything, and who knows what she was able to scan and pull out on data sticks,” says a Senate Republican Judiciary Committee staffer. “We’ll find out soon enough when we see what the DNC is putting out during [Sen. Patrick] Leahy’s ‘truth committee’ hearings.”

Daly, according to White House staff, was often in her office early and one of the last to leave the Old Executive Office Building, which does not jibe with official White House claims that Daly was not doing much in the office, which was one reason for her leaving. Judging by the speed with which the DOJ document made it into the mainstream media, it appears she got plenty of reading done before she left.

Left Tech

Several left-leaning nonprofit or community-based groups are seeking $250 million in funds budgeted in the stimulus bill for high-tech or Internet projects to create what some Democrats in the House and Senate describe as a web portal modeled on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

“It would be a federally funded nonprofit entity, which would fund national, state, and local websites designed to meet a public need,” says one House member, who has been in a meeting with the organization called One Economy, which is one of the groups seeking money for the web-based project. “For example, if an organization wanted to create a state-based website of educational materials for its Hispanic citizens, the national online portal would be in a position to fund it, and allow other groups or other citizens to access the material.”

“It’s the kind of project that could become as important to the Internet as CPB was to television; it’s a 21stcentury CPB if we can get it off the ground,” says another House aide.

One Economy, and others, view the project as an organizing tool around its issues. Its stated goal is to focus on getting high-tech tools like high-speed Internet and computers into the hands of lowincome individuals. But its political activities focus on such issues as living wages, organized labor, nationalized health care, and affordable housing, among others. ACORN is provided its own links and resources on the One Economy website (one-economy.com). Other organizations beyond One Economy are said to be seeking funding for such a project, all of them with ties to organized labor or the Democrat party.