The New York Times still hasn’t published a word about the Democrats’ credit report dirty trick involving two of Chuck Schumer’s former employees.

Investor’s Business Daily editorializes today on Schumer’s plumbers and the lack of national media coverage:

One would think a potential felony by staffers for a top Democrat — a case being investigated by the U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. as well as the FBI — would at least get a paragraph of coverage somewhere between the grocery coupons and the obituaries.

Can you imagine the media firestorm if staffers for, say, Frist, had used Barack Obama’s Social Security number to fraudulently obtain his credit report looking for stuff to derail his Senate campaign? Frist would have been before a media firing squad faster than you can say Bill Bennett.

Indeed. Newsday, to its credit, has been advancing the story. On Sunday, the paper disclosed some interesting facts:

The two women at the center of the FBI probe have been keeping a low profile. Both have resigned from the committee.

[Katie] Barge and [Lauren] Weiner declined to comment through their lawyer, William Lawler III, the ex-president of the Washington, D.C., bar association who represented former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey during his 2004 sex scandal.

The DSCC is picking up the tab for Lawler, who charges as much as $400 an hour.

Barge quit a job overseeing a research staff of six at David Brock’s liberal watchdog organization Media Matters to take the DSCC job. She is highly regarded in the tight-knit community of Democratic researchers, friends and associates say.

Barge cut her teeth as a researcher on the campaign of failed North Carolina Senate candidate Erskine Bowles and other contests, friends said.

Weiner, a Scarsdale, N.Y., native who graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, raised no red flags working for the Democratic National Committee last year, an associate said.

In April 2000, as an undergraduate at Northwestern University, Weiner published an article about Web access to personal records. In it, she wrote that “the Internet is threatening because it is all-empowering.”

Sen. Schumer sure has a funny way of showing his commitment to protecting Americans’ privacy.

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Reader Dave L. writes:

Schumer questioning Miers on privacy rights will be an event made for the blogs and talk radio!

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