Security breach on Capitol Hill:
It's criminal
Let's say you happen to gain access to confidential information, either on a Web site or another individual's system. Do you report it? Do you read the confidential information yet not act on any of it? Or do you read the information and immediately use it to your own personal advantage?
It's question of ethics, really, one that speaks to the integrity of the individual involved and the security policy in place in a given environment.
IF YOU ARE a certain Republican staff member for the politically divisive U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, apparently you choose that last option...more [ZDnet Anchor Desk]
If you leave you front door unlocked is the burglar innocent? If you leave the keys in your car, is the thief innocent? If you are at your friends house and notice a private letter sitting on his coffee table, are you innocent when you read it?
Just because you can do a thing, does not make it right. In this case it's all about convenient excuses that don't stand up to one second of ethical consideration. That is what this administration is all about.
It is a sad commentary on our society when the so-called 'moral' right can't even see the difference between a man who lied about having sex, and a man who lies and gets 500+ American soldiers killed...mj
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