My response is Oh My God, how brazen can they get:

Infiltration of files seen as extensive

Senate panel’s GOP staff pried on Democrats

By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff, 1/22/2004

WASHINGTON — 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.

You can read the article at Boston.com. This is a huge story and a massive breach of ethics, at least as big as Watergate, because they not only broke in and took the files but then passed information on to the media. This is reprehensible.