John Aravosisis an American Democratic political consultant, journalist, civil rights advocate, and blogger. Aravosis, an attorney who lives in New York City, is the founder and executive editor of AMERICAblog... (wikipedia)
On the left, we've always talked about the need to have an echo chamber. We believe the right has a whole media network, from talk radio to Fox News to Matt Drudge. The left doesn't have that because the left doesn't play well with others.
The idea was to show that if his privacy wasn't safe, none of ours were, and it clearly proved the point.