UPDATE, November 14, 2008: Student's trial delayed in Palin hacking case
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UPDATE, October 8, 2008: Alleged Palin e-mail hacker goes to trial in December
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A column by Mike Butcher is VERY sympathetic to David Kernell, a target of the investigation into the hacking of Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account. His column appears on the Washington Post website.
The headline: "Palingate? - Agents Swoop On A Tennessee College Dorm Linked To Palin Hacker's IP Address"
Butcher writes:
Hack into - and then publish - the email account of a major politician, especially one under Secret Service protection and currently running for Vice President, and you had better cover your tracks. Well. WBIR is among those reporting that FBI agents broke into a party at the Fort Sanders apartment of University of Tennessee student David Kernell early Sunday morning. A Department of Justice spokesperson confirmed there has been "investigatory activity" in Knoxville regarding the incident where Sarah Palin's Yahoo account was hacked and information published online.
According to a witness, several agents arrived at The Commons of Knoxville apartment block around midnight, took down the names of everyone at the party and then spent the next 1.5 to 2 hours taking pictures of everything inside the apartment. So far it looks like there are no publicly available search warrants, and no charges have been filed. Give it time. Witnesses say Kernell and his friends fled the apartment while his three roommates were subpoenaed.
The FBI "broke" into David Kernell's apartment?
According to WBIR, in Knoxville:
A person who identified himself as a witness tells 10 News that agents with the FBI served a federal search warrant at the Fort Sanders residence of David Kernell early Sunday morning. Kernell lives in the Commons apartment complex at 1115 Highland Ave.
...A separate law enforcement source confirmed to 10 News that a search warrant was served on Kernell's apartment.
Since when is serving a federal search warrant akin to breaking into someone's residence?
It's not. It's part of an investigation into a federal crime.
The way the lib media and Barack Obama supporters are reacting to the hacking of Palin's personal e-mail account is so outrageous. It's an embarrassment.
They're unabashed apologists for criminal activity.
Rather than being outraged about the invasion of Palin's privacy, Butcher is warning hackers to "cover your tracks." He complains about Kernell's privacy being invaded when he is served a warrant.
Nice touch.
Keep in mind, Kernell is being investigated by the FBI in connection to a FEDERAL CRIME.
There's nothing criminal about that.
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More, from FOX News.
2 comments:
Sarah Palin told The Anchorage Daily News about how SHE HACKED into a coworker's computer to retrieve email she felt could land him in trouble. After copying the email she sent it to Paul Lyle - the assistant attorney general in Fairbanks. She claims she hacked the computer on orders of an assistant attorney general. But she didn't even know if there was a legitimate investigation going on.
ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS: "Palin printed out a batch of Ruedrich's e-mails on Nov. 12, 2003. The next day, she sent a message to Paul Lyle, the assistant attorney general in Fairbanks, and told him she was following his instructions. But was there an investigation or not? Palin couldn't get a straight answer."
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==ROBERT D. NELSON==
September 18, 2008
ALASKA OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION
Alaska Oil & Gas Conservation Commission
333 W. 7th Ave., Ste. 100
Anchorage, Alaska 99501
aogcc.customer.svc@alaska.gov
jody.colombie@alaska.gov
Attorney General Talis J. Colberg
P.O. Box 110300
Juneau, AK 99811-0300
tel: 907-465-2133
fax: 907-465-2075
email: attorney.general@alaska.gov
The Honorable Governor Sarah Palin
Alaska State Capitol Building Third Floor
P.O. Box 110001
Juneau, AK 99811-0001
Phone (907) 465-3500
Fax (907) 465-3532
governor@gov.state.ak.us
Hello -
This is a request for information. If I have sent this request to the wrong email address or department please forward it to the appropriate person, persons or department. Thank you.
In researching an investigation involving the AOGCC in 2004 I've learned that, according to
THE ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS, Mrs. Sarah Palin was assisted by an AOGCC technician while "hacking" into a computer belonging to Randy Ruedrich. I used the word "hacking" because it was the word used by the reporter in THE ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS article and the reporter apparently received the information about the "hacking" and information gathering from Mrs. Palin, herself, during the interview. The article reports that Sarah Palin stated the hacking was done at the "behest" of an assistant attorney general in Fairbanks.
http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/510276.html
I have some questions I'm hoping the governors office, the AOGCC and the attorney general's office may be able to help me with:
The AOGCC --
What, exactly, was the job description / duties of the AOGCC technician Mrs. Palin mentioned in the article?
Would it be possible to obtain the name of the technician that assisted Mrs. Palin?
Was Mrs. Palin authorized to do the "hacking" into the computer used by Randy Ruedrich?
If Mrs. Palin was authorized to do the "hacking" and information gathering, was it an authority she held by her position with the AOGCC or was she authorized by a specific member or official request / order of the AOGCC -- or was the authorization granted by order of the attorney general's office?
Can you give me information concerning use of email accounts by members of the AOGCC? Specifically, are members of the AOGCC allowed (by standard procedure and regulation) to access the email of other AOGCC members? Are email accounts of AOGCC members protected by the same rules and regulations that protect the email accounts of other Alaska state offices, such as the governor and the governor's administration?
Are members of the AOGCC allowed to do government business using email accounts that are not on the government server? Are members TODAY allowed to do government business on personal accounts using yahoo, etc.?
Have any current AOGCC members communicated with the governor using any account she may have other than on the government server?
Were any of the email communications retrieved by Sarah Palin in her investigation of Randy Ruedrich on a personal email account other than on the government server - such as yahoo, etc.?
The Department of Law / Attorney General's office --
The ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS article reports: "But as she and an AOGCC technician worked their way around his computer password at the behest of an assistant attorney general in Fairbanks, they found his cleanup had not extended to his electronic files."
Can you give me the name of the assistant attorney general who gave the order to hack into Mr. Ruedrich's computer to Mrs. Palin and the AOGCC technician?
Sarah Palin was involved in an investigation of Randy Ruedrich for mixing his political job with his state duties. At the "behest" of the attorney general's office Sarah Palin "hacked" into Mr. Ruedrich's computer seeking information from his email.
Has the attorney general's office been involved in any other investigations or situations where it has ordered members of another government agency or department - such as the AOGCC - to hack into a government computer to retrieve email?
Regarding the use of personal email accounts not on the government server to do government business -- does the attorney general's office deem that acceptable and legal?
In the current investigation of Governor Palin, will the attorney general's office participate in an effort to retrieve and disclose the emails of Governor Palin in the same manner that it did with the Randy Ruedrich investigation?
When there is an investigation involving a state of Alaska employee, is there a standard procedure for how that employee's computer will be accessed to retrieve information? Is the computer removed from the office of the employee? Is the employee informed that the computer and email address he was assigned by the state is being accessed and investigated? What are the steps and who is involved? How is the event documented?
I assume that employees of The Department Of Law do use email to contact Governor Palin from time to time. Does the attorney general - and do others at The Department Of Law - use the governor's official state of Alaska email address when contacting her by email?
The Honorable Governor Sarah Palin --
November 9, 2003 -- Anchorage Daily News -- Sean Cockerham
===But Palin, a well-known Republican and former mayor of Wasilla, is not so sure about that. She said that she has heard from a lot of Republicans who wondered why Ruedrich hadn't been able to see that he had a conflict of interest. "It was a very simple issue," Palin said. "It was black and white."===
Will the governor acknowledge that many Alaskans - and many other Americans - wonder if she is involved in ethics violations and a conflict of interest? Will the governor now allow for the same type of email retrieval that she undertook to assist in the investigation of Randy Ruedrich?
Will the governor offer for review all email on her personal email accounts so that investigators can properly investigate possible ethics violations and conflicts of interest -- and so investigators can determine if she has been using those accounts to do government / political business she did not wish to have made public and to avoid having her email communications documented and archived?
Thank you for any information you can give me.
Sincerely,
-Robert Nelson-
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For reference I offer the following from adn.com
Palin explains her actions in Ruedrich case (11/19/2004) adn.com
http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/510276.html
(Please follow link above for the interview in it's entirety.)
*Sarah Palin never thought of herself as an investigator. Yet there she was, hacking uncomfortably into Randy Ruedrich's computer, looking for evidence that the state Republican Party boss had broken the state ethics law while a member of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
*The next week, when Palin went back to work at the AOGCC, she noticed that Ruedrich had removed his pictures from the walls and the personal effects from his desk. But as she and an AOGCC technician worked their way around his computer password at the behest of an assistant attorney general in Fairbanks, they found his cleanup had not extended to his electronic files.
*The technician "said it looked like he tried to delete this, but she knew a way to go around and get some of the deleted stuff," Palin said in an interview. "I didn't know what I was looking for, but I was there."
*Palin found dozens of e-mail messages and documents stacked up in trash folders ...
*When Palin went through Ruedrich's computer, she found an e-mail dated Nov. 3 that Ruedrich sent from his home computer to work.
*Palin printed out a batch of Ruedrich's e-mails on Nov. 12, 2003. The next day, she sent a message to Paul Lyle, the assistant attorney general in Fairbanks, and told him she was following his instructions. But was there an investigation or not? Palin couldn't get a straight answer.
*On Dec. 11, Palin sent Lyle a package of material: printed e-mails, staff comments, documents from Ruedrich's desk and recycle bin.
The FBI may have had a warrent in this case, however the Bureau has a notorious history of pulling "blackbag" jobs in which without a warrant, the FBI has broken into the homes of Americans whom it was either curious about or looking to setup in some type of COINTELPRO Sting operation.
The FBI is an anti American the NSA, CIA or anyother Intel agency that was created to undermine the U.S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights.
See the case of Michael Boren Willams -- this can be found on the Internet, in regard to one of the FBI's most notorious illegal break-ins. A prime illustration of what these Nazi minded secret police force really is.
Regards,
Jim
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