We have all either heard of or experienced cases where a misaddressed email or a "cc:" that was supposed to be a "bcc:" got the sender in really hot water. But the House Judiciary Committee has taken it to a whole new level.

A while back the HJC set up a web tipline for tipster with information on politicization and wrongdoing at the Bush DOJ. Today the committee sent an email to all the tipsters alerting them to extremely tight safeguards in place to keep their identities and stories confidential. Unfortunately they put the 150+ email address in the "to:" field in the email, not "bcc:". So everyone's email got sent to anyone else. And probably because of pranksters one of the addresses those emails got sent to was none other than the vice president's office.

Paul Kiel has the whole sorry tale.