Transparency!

It takes cyberhacking for the public's business to become public.

As the House was conducting scheduled votes Thursday, ethics chairwoman Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., went to the microphone to announce that a confidential weekly report of the committee from July had leaked out in a case of "cyber-hacking."

A committee statement said its security was breached through "peer to peer file sharing software" by a junior employee who was working from home. The staff member was fired.

Of course, there's a very good reason why a Democraticly led Congress wouldn't want this information leaking out, especially when one sees names like Nancy Pelosi, Jane Harman, Charles Rangel and Maxine Waters.

Five of the seven House Defense Appropriations Committee members under investigation are high prominent Democrats.