With liberty and justice for all...?

Several papers reported on the apparent infiltration of Democratic Senators' files by Republican counterparts on the Judiciary committee. Apparently, the discovery of the infiltration was the result of an investigation by the Senate Sergeant-at-arms into how certain memos got leaked back in November. The New York Times had a pretty straightforward article on it on Friday.

What's particularly interesting to me is the assertion that there was "no hacking" involved. Note the spin control of preemptively declaring that "hacking' (a vague term in and of itself) was not involved. Now, unless the Senators' documents were on an utterly open file share, I just don't see how that would be the case. Are you offended that an action that would get a 16-year-old with only joy-riding intentions 5-10 years is being discussed only in "ethics" terms? I sure am. Heck, we have about -><- that much actual technical information on what happened.

( A discussion of what might actually be going on, from a computer forensics standpoint )