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I don't think the issue is democratic OR republican. The issue is one of trust. Every day I work with much confidential information all around me. Do I have the right to access and all of it? Yes. Do I have the NEED to? No. Not unless the chart I access is that of one of my patients. And accessing confideential information when you don't have the need to is a violation of a sacred trust.

I can understand why he did this. The article doesn't mention if there were children involved. But ceratinly any person in a divorce situation whose wife was bringing someone else into the home where his children likely were is troublesome for anyone who has ever divorced. But that is one of the trade offs you have to consider before you decide to get a divorce. That situation does not give you the need to know regarding your ex's boyfriend's confidential information.

As the supervisor of the house in a hospital several years back I had the right to access any record on a need to know basis. But that doesn't make it OK to go poking around in my next door neighbor's or my sister in laws medical record. And to do so has harsh penalties. It seems much harsher than in this case if he was only 'censured.'