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US Senate GOP Spied on Democrats: Infiltration of files seen as extensive

Posted by TimSlavin at January 22, 2004

"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." Then pass the private data not to the media at large (which might be okay) but to the conservative media (which appears partisan).

Besides the obvious political implications (it sounds a lot like Watergate, regardless of motives or timeline), I wonder how much of this goes on in business? It is a society-level issue, not just politics: what do you do if you discover you have access to secret documents on a computer network? The answer is some people cheat, some don't. From the Boston Globe.

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