UPDATE, October 8, 2008: Alleged Palin e-mail hacker goes to trial in December
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UPDATE, September 18, 2008: David Kernell
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From FOX News:
The FBI and Secret Service have launched a joint investigation into the apparent hacking of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s private e-mail account after a widely-read Web site published screen grabs from it on Wednesday.
The article posted on Gawker.com revealed snapshots of e-mail exchanges the Alaska governor had with colleagues as well as private family photos. The gossip site says the email account has since been shut down.
Rick Davis, campaign manager for John McCain, released a statement Wednesday calling the publication a “shocking invasion of the governor’s privacy and a violation of law.”
“The matter has been turned over to the appropriate authorities and we hope that anyone in possession of these e-mails will destroy them. We will have no further comment,” Davis said.
An FBI spokesman in Alaska later confirmed, “We are going to be working a joint investigation with Secret Service on this.”
The Secret Service contacted The Associated Press and asked for copies of the leaked e-mails, which circulated widely on the Internet. The AP did not comply.
Why would the AP not comply?
Why would the AP keep copies of stolen e-mails from the Secret Service?
The e-mails were obtained illegally.
The AP coverage of the hacking does not acknowledge that Sarah Palin was a victim.
To the contrary, the incident is being used to slam her -- again.
The Washington Post takes the same stance.
The episode focuses attention on Palin's use of her personal e-mail account as lawmakers in Alaska look into whether she fired the state's public safety commissioner, Walter Monegan, because he refused to take action against her brother-in-law, a state trooper at the time.
Palin has been criticized in recent days for using a personal e-mail account to conduct state business.
No.
The episode focuses attention on how Palin is under assault.
Why don't Michael D. Shear and Karl Vick acknowledge that KARL VICK wrote the column criticizing Palin for using a personal e-mail account?
They're not being as transparent as they should be.
...An Alaska activist has filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking disclosure of e-mails from another Yahoo account Palin used, gov.sarah@yahoo.com.
That account appears to have been linked to the one that was hacked.
Both accounts appear to have been deactivated. E-mails sent to them yesterday were returned as undeliverable.
This Alaska activist is one of Palin's political enemies.
It's not OK for the lib media to completely dismiss the crime of hacking into Palin's personal e-mail account and plastering personal information on the Internet.
That's not being mentioned.
The lib media are excusing the violation of her privacy by ignoring it.
The issue of Palin conducting government business from a personal account is a separate one.
Palin and her family have been victimized here.
Where's the reporting on that?
It's as if the libs think they're entitled to the stolen information.
They aren't entitled to commit a crime. The AP is acting like an accomplice.
I didn't realize when Barack Obama promised to get tough and sharper in his attacks that meant breaking the law.
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That Karl Rove smear machine at work yet again, er, wrong party. Sorry.
Obama's folks that did this deserve to be thrown into the clink. Immediately.
Obviously, the FBI and Secret Service are investigating the most recent crime of hacking into a private email account. But the fact that Palin, a sitting governor and candidate for the 2nd highest office in the land, may have been using a Yahoo account to circumvent (i.e., break) Alaska law and conduct official business in a way that would avoid the State's sunshine laws is, in a fact, a much bigger issue. If true, then McCain has picked a felon as his running mate. I seem to recall you having strong concerns about politicians associating with felons.
Also, disclosing evidence of a crime is not a violation of privacy. How the hackers came by the evidence may have been illegal, and if caught, the hackers will have to face the consequences of their actions, as would all the other whistle-blowers in history.
But would you suggest that we should have focused on the treasonous acts of Daniel Ellsberg for handing the Pentagon Papers over to the NYTimes, rather than the contents of the Papers themselves and the criminal activities they disclosed?
You can't equate a criminal with a whistleblower.
We're talking about the invasion of the privacy of more than just Palin.
The cyber-thugs are ruthless warriors. They don't care about the collateral damage.
Obama promised to unleash the big guns and go nuclear. That's what he's doing, on multiple fronts.
Smear, smear, smear.
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