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The leak was inspired by Bork's opposition to privacy protections beyond those explicitly outlined in the constitution. [0]

On September 25, the City Paper published Dolan's survey of Bork's rentals in a cover story titled "The Bork Tapes". The revealed tapes proved to be modest, innocuous, and non-salacious, consisting of a garden-variety of films such as thrillers, British drama, and those by Alfred Hitchcock. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bork_Supreme_Court_nomi...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bork_tapes#:~:text=On%20Septem...