Russell Berman for the NY Sun received a mistakenly sent email from the Republican National Committee which contained a list of guests to a Washington fund-raiser on Friday headlined by Bush. In a breach of privacy, the Republican National Committee erroneously e-mailed a list that contained the names, races, and Social Security numbers of dozens of top Republican donors — and that identified two of the contributors as Muslim — to this reporter.
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The attached spreadsheet of 76 guests included category headings with Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and "race." The race of all but three were listed as "Caucasian." One was identified as "Asian," and the race of two others, Malik and Seeme Hasan, was listed as "Muslim."
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The e-mailing of sensitive personal information comes weeks after the executive director of the Democratic National Committee, Tom McMahon, sent a letter to the RNC's chief of staff, Kelley McCullough, alerting her to security flaws in the GOP.com Web site.
"People should not feel that their crucial data is threatened because they participate in the political process," a spokesman for the DNC, Damien LaVera, said yesterday. via Chris Bowers at MyDD
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