] Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary
] Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a
] year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically
] passing on copies to the media, Senate officials told The
] Globe.
]
] From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003,
] members of the GOP committee staff exploited a computer
] glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic
] communications without a password. Trolling through
] hundreds of memos, they were able to read talking points
] and accounts of private meetings discussing which
] judicial nominees Democrats would fight -- and with what
] tactics.

This should invoke Watergate style outrage, by reflex alone..

] "There appears to have been no hacking, no stealing, and
] no violation of any Senate rule," Miranda said. "Stealing
] assumes a property right and there is no property right to
] a government document. . . . These documents are not
] covered under the Senate disclosure rule because they are
] not official business and, to the extent they were
] disclosed, they were disclosed inadvertently by negligent
] [Democratic] staff."

Unbelievable...

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