Hoist by their own petard ... or, what goes around, comes around

The New York Times > National > A.C.L.U.'s Search for Data on Donors Stirs Privacy Fears:
"Attorney General Eliot Spitzer of New York appears to be asking the same questions. In a Dec. 3 letter, Mr. Spitzer's office informed the A.C.L.U. that it was conducting an inquiry into whether the group had violated its promises to protect the privacy of donors and members."

It seems the ACLU staff decided to do some data mining on their own members and donors to try to boost their finances and have run afoul of their own published privacy policy, or at least that is what NY AG Spitzer is looking into.

It is always fun to see some liberal outfit caught in a web of its own hypocrisy. I haven't enjoyed such a display so much since a union of office workers went on strike against their unfair employer - the Central Labor Council of Chicago.