[pogo101]

Miranda's points are well-taken. My only quibble is that I wish he had added some small measure of mea culpa, e.g., "what I did was no worse than opening a file drawer that a rival had left unlocked. It wasn't right, and in that sense I regret it, but it wasn't a violation of Senate rule or law."

[jackbill]

Is your middle name Orrin?

[ConservativeGadfly]

Pogo -- I understand your feelings about this completely. Good people can disagree as to whether or not gentlemen read other gentlemen's email. But the fact remains that an awful lot of things go on -- from the intelligence world to politics -- that many of us would just as soon not know about. And thank God for those folks who are willing to soil their hands so that ours can remain free.

A double click on a mouse will never outweigh the multiple civil rights violations of nominees, the rigging of court cases or a "filibusters for cash" scheme outlined in the content of these memos.

[Fledermaus]

I disagree with that analogy. It wasn't like opening an unlocked file of someone.

It was shared space with bad security and IT management (and we trust these bozos to pass laws regulating the computer business?).

It's more like a collegue leaves his magazine in the employee cafeteria and you pick it up and read it on your break and you realize it's a book filled with child porn and you report him to HR.