Raw Story Exclusive: DeLay is WRONG. Roll Call reporter did not get Craig story from CREW.
As we reported earlier, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay accused CREW of leaking the Larry Craig scandal to Roll Call. We knew that wasn't true. Now, as Raw Story reports, the reporter who did break the story flat out denies DeLay's bizarre claim:
"I can tell you categorically that CREW was not the source for our Larry Craig story," Josh Kurtz, who was first tipped off about the Idaho senator's arrest, told RAW STORY. Kurtz is political editor of Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper that first reported Craig's arrest.
CREW publishes an annual list of the "most corrupt" members of Congress called "Beyond DeLay," in honor of the former House majority leader.
The Houston Chronicle reported that DeLay said CREW was acting in concert with Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign to distract attention from an emerging scandal revolving around rogue fundraiser Norman Hsu.
"Clearly Tom DeLay is still obsessed with CREW," Naomi Seligman Steiner, a spokeswoman for the group told RAW STORY. "Sure, by writing the ethics complaint against him we were instrumental in his downfall. But, after all these years, even we're surprised that he's resorted to making up conspiratorial theories about us."
Further undercutting DeLay's assertion is that reports of Norman Hsu questionable fundraising practices didn't break until a day after Roll Call broke Craig's story.
Tom DeLay: Still obsessed, still wrong.
NEW YORK 9/29/07 (CNN) --
NEW YORK 9/29/07 (CNN) -- Topps Meat Co. on Saturday expanded a recall of ground beef from about 300,000 pounds to 21.7 million pounds, one of the largest meat recalls in U.S. history.
The recalled products are all ground beef patties with various brand names.
In a statement, the Elizabeth, New Jersey, company said the hamburger patties may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, a bacterium that can cause severe diarrhea and cramps, as well as other complications.
A statement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture said 25 illnesses are under investigation in Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
The ground beef products being recalled have a "sell by date" or a "best if used by date" between September 25, 2007, and September 25, 2008, Topps' statement said. Video Watch the latest on the beef recall »
The packages also have the marking "Est. 9748" inside the USDA mark of inspection.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) 9/28/07 - Martinne Geller and Nichola Groom
Clothing retailer Gap Inc said on Friday an unencrypted computer containing the Social Security numbers of about 800,000 job applicants was stolen from a vendor it used to manage that data.
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An investigation into the matter is under way, though the company said it had no reason to believe that the data on the laptop computer was the target of the theft or that the personal information had been used improperly.
Gap spokeswoman Cynthia Lin would not disclose the name of the vendor, nor would she say whether Gap was maintaining its relationship with that company.
"They trusted their data to our company, so we are ultimately accountable for this incident," Lin said, referring to the job seekers.
The stolen laptop contained personal information for people who applied for store positions with the company's Old Navy, Banana Republic, Gap and Outlet stores in the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada between July 2006 and June 2007, Gap said. The applicants' Social Security numbers were included in the stolen information.
The information on the laptop was not encrypted, a fact Gap said is contrary to its agreement with the vendor.
The San Francisco company, which learned of the incident more than a week ago on September 19, said it is sending letters to the affected individuals to notify them of the incident and offer them a year of free credit monitoring services with fraud resolution assistance. Canadian applicants' Social Insurance Numbers were not stolen, Gap said.
"We're reviewing the facts and circumstances that led to this incident closely, and will take appropriate steps to help prevent something like this from happening again," Chief Executive Glenn Murphy said in a statement.
The company uses more than one vendor to manage its job applicant data, so this does not affect everyone who applied for jobs during that period, the company said.