McCain And Palin Personally Approved Email Hunt For Leaks

The Plum Line:

John McCain and Sarah Palin both personally approved an intensive internal search of the emails of top campaign staffers in order to determine who had been leaking damaging information about Palin to reporters, McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt just told me in an interview.

"John McCain and Sarah Palin were both informed that we were doing this in an attempt to catch the person," Schmidt told me, referring to his decision to undertake the email search, which has been the topic of fierce controversy since it was revealed yesterday.

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Comments

[DoTheMath]

Wouldn't it be easier for Palin to just stop generating "damaging information" for people to leak? No, I guess not.

[SueInCA]

Ha Ha good one and you are right, she needs the drama

[emily00011]

lol
that would be harder for her.

[lifesucks]

Of course not - that would be violating her right to free speech.

[research]

you get what you watch.

Covering the conservatives, give them the spotlight and podium.

Meanwhile, Kucinich brother died today.

Kucinich wants to investigate the murder of Bhutto

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20090701_un_investigating_bhutto_murder/?ln

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[BlueFloyd]

i already signed it, baby!!!

[BlueFloyd]

"already read 'em."



- Max Cady

[edwarvir]

I'll do anything just don't forget about me.

[Leota2]

Yeah--private--- 'cause I'm sure none of the IT people ever looked at any emails . . . . or shared them.

[levibatgirl]

She's like a jr high school girl.

Every slight she receives must be turned into a w ar.
Even if and especially when it's the truth.

[freethinkergirl]

Jr High? A little too much credit there.....­....

[Rain-man]

Did Palin go to 5 different junior high schools or was it 5 different colleges?
Sarah probably caught mono in junior high school. Mono runs in the family!

[lifesucks]

They tried to market Palin like somebody that she isn't - the Kathy Couric interview proved that. And when they decided to let Palin be Palin, she just came across like someone who didn't have a clue as to what existed outside of Alaska

[Grunty1]

Poor starkcr31 didn't bother to read the article and is spamming on completely unrelated topics. Oh well, that's what he gets for being such a good lil' parrot.

[2008CaliforniaFan]

Palin ' Fans " are NOT big on ' edjucashun '... They like the ' purty pictures ' like in the Runners World story.

[freethinkergirl]

Yah betcha, cus were real ahmurcans.­.........(­said in a very obnoxious voice) :-)

[tomasedison]

Desperately seeking attention before the big 5-0 creeps up on her.

Sarah has been this way her entire life and will never change. Its always all about Sarah.

[CJWebber]

My God, McCain must be regretting his VP pick.

[freethinkergirl]

Yah think????

[serialcoma]

You think he even remembers it?

[Grunty1]

I don't think McCain had any real control over his campaign. Just like he wouldn't have had any real control in the White House.

[swan1]

I would hate to know all the dirty tricks these two have done in their lives.

[SueInCA]

There is not enough paper to rehash them all.......­.........t­hey deserved each other. Palin for being stewpid and McC ain for thinking he could fool American Women into believing she could attempt to fill H's shoes. As soon as he announced her, I went to work for President Obama lol

[Decipherer]

Very wise, Sue! Nice job!

[Rain-man]

Sooo Sarah Palin personally approved an intensive internal search of the emails of top campaign staffers in order to determine who had been leaking damaging information about Palin to reporters.

Palin had the IT department do a keyword search of the emails, using the epithets that had been applied to Palin!

One question, how much is Palin being charged to do the email search?
According to Palin, and her staffers, Palin wanted $15million from the public to search her personal / official emails.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27228287/

I say we give her a discount and charge Palin $14,999,99­9.99.

[redsongia]

If Palin had an "IT" department, her yahoo account wouldn't have been hacked by a college kid in Tennessee.

[2008CaliforniaFan]

And didn't he just ' GUESS '... Her password..­?

She rarely uses most of the words ( correctly) in the dictionary so maybe it wasn't that hard after all. Maybe the password was ' Yu Betcha '.... easy for Her to remember.

[Grunty1]

2008CaliforniaFan, he didn't guess the password. He used Palin's own reminder questions and looked up on the answers on the internet.

[ThinkCreeps]

A search of derogatory terms for Herself in campaign email must have trawled a pretty big batch. It would have been far easier to search for users writing in positive terms and then just assume everyone else was spilling the truth.

[Decipherer]

Yup yup. Herself is a pretty big "batch."

[zendem1]

When the Nixonistas were concerned about "leaks," they set up a group called the plumbers..­Who was filling sarah's hole?

[Freesia2]

lol

I'm not going to touch that one. Uh uh.

[johnie2xs]

Todd? Or maybe Todd's business partner, Brad Hanson?
Another forgotten story line.

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/national_enquirer_world_exclusive_sarah_palins_secret_lover_revealed/celebrity/65481

Just sayin'!!

[freethinkergirl]

Joe TP, of course, oops he's unlicensed.

[instagladiator]

But then maybe.... Hmmm? You know "if the xxxx fits, etc."

[jorge4u]

It is hard to patch any leaks with gum.

[smchp]

Pretty hard to stop leaks when the dam is made of hollow cardboard painted to look like concrete.

[Mike4Obama]

I still remember the leak about the Wasilla Hillbilly's ransacking Sacks Fifth Avenue line. That one still cracks me up.

[Grunty1]

Non story. Of course Rushpublicans were going to hunt down and punish someone for daring to tell the truth.