This story is the bombshell of the day...
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 ... 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.
The media beneficiaries of this snooping included Plamegate instigator Robert Novak. That guy gets fishier and fishier.
Manuel Miranda, ex-Judiciary Committee staff member, tried a blame-the-victim approach as he "argued that the only wrongdoing was on the part of the Democrats -- both for the content of their memos, and for their negligence in placing them where they could be seen."
Daily Kos points out that not only does this reach to the highest levels of the Republican Party (Bill Frist's office), but it may violate Patriot Act cyberterrorism clauses.
Josh Marshall writes, "It's creeping DeLayism. No rules -- only power."
Update 1/23 7:15am: Marshall points out a pretty nagging discrepancy between the Boston Globe article linked above, and this morning's coverage of the same memo in the Times. The lede of the Globe story -- that "the scope of both the intrusions and the likely disclosures is now known to have been far more extensive than the November incident" -- is not even mentioned by the Times.