These days we are surrounded with reports of government eavesdropping, spys being outed and secret intelligence documents being falsified. Sometimes it seems like our modern day government is filled with escalating corruption but in fact the government (or members of it) have been breaking the rules since the beginning. Today in 1811, Massachusetts Senator Timothy Pickering becomes the first US senator to be censured after being accused of revealing secret documents between the president and senate.

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson		 The Most Exclusive Club: A History Of The Modern United States Senate
The Most Exclusive Club: A History Of The Modern United States Senate