In the papers, a sto­ry of “exten­sive Repub­li­can spy­ing on Democrats”:www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/01/22/infiltration_of_files_seen_as_extensive made pos­si­ble by a com­put­er glitch that allowed them to access restrict­ed Demo­c­ra­t­ic com­mu­ni­ca­tions with­out a pass­word. Infor­ma­tion from the mem­os was passed to con­ser­v­a­tive colum­nist Robert Novak, who was the con­duit for White House dirty tricks last sum­mer – he was the one who revealed clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion meant to hurt a promi­nent “WMD scan­dal whistle­blow­er Joseph Wilson”:http://www.nonviolence.org/articles/000168.php. The plot thickens.