Hackers Post Palin's Private E-Mail Account
The hacker group 'Anonymous' claims it broke into Sarah Palin's private Yahoo! email account and published it on the Web to WikiLeaks early Wednesday. The Wikileaks postings include screen shots that show lists of e-mail subject lines, specific messages, and photographs of Palin's family as evidence of the validity of the hack. Accounts suggest Anonymous was acting in response to reports that Palin took a page from Karl Rove and illegally used her personal e-mail account(s) to keep state business out of the public record.
According to Wired News, Amy McCorkell, author of one of the messages to Governor Palin and a member of the Governor's Advisory Board on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, confirmed that her message was authentic. In a statement released by the McCain-Palin campaign, Rick Davis, the campaign manager, called the incident "a shocking invasion of the Governor's privacy." The FBI also acknowledged that the hacked account and its contents were Palin's.
The Yahoo! account has since been deleted -- or at least removed from use -- either as part of the investigation or in attempt to protect the account. At the time this article was published, Yahoo! spokespeople had not yet responded to an interview request. No information has been released yet as to who else might have had access to the e-mail account or how Anonymous hacked the password. E-mail shown in the Wikileaks screen shots also included a message sent to Alaska Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell, suggesting Palin was conducting government correspondence.
Although it has been public knowledge that Gov. Palin used private e-mail accounts to conduct state business since before her nomination as Republican vice presidential candidate, the hacked e-mail account, the revealed contents of its correspondences and the possible public records violations they represent are the latest surprise visited upon the GOP presidential campaign in the three short weeks since McCain announced his running mate.
The McCain campaign has been slammed twice in the past week, including on Monday for comments by Senior Policy Adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who said that Senator McCain "helped create" "the premier innovation in the past 15 years" (holding up his Blackberry.) Jokes passed quickly Tuesday via Twitter, blogs, and articles about how McCain "invented" the Blackberry, in reference to Al Gore and the Internet. Friday McCain was hit by the Obama campaign ad going after his self-proclaimed computer illiteracy.
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Sounds like the work of a repug operative! Bravo!
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Sarah "Air Head" Palin is more disturbed by her air head moves to use her personal email for official government business. Now she's acting as though she is so concerned about personal information. Sarah we don't buy it. You were warned repeatedly to discontinue using your personal email for official government business.
Charles from South Texas
It makes a lot of sense that it was done by the GOP themselves, it is not the first time they pull this sort of tactic. If it was the other side, by now we all have had a lot of incriminating evidence not just some silly pictures. Hack!!my what a nonsense, hudwinkle is more like it.
What the obvious question begs- was this done from inside the Palin camp to negate a subpeona fo r those persona emails- like Roves "personal" emails on his Blackberry gone suddenly "missing"?
Kind of convenient, don't you think? If they were "hacked, then the "anonymous" people may still have them.
Unfortunately now though that would rest in the court of public opinion since it is now tainted evidence.
My question is this...If this individual could hack into sarah Palin's account illegally how do we know he did not implant false information on to her account. My father once had an old saying " if you lie, you will steal, and if you will steal you will kill. " If this nut job was such and obama fan that he would break into palin's PRIVATE account then should we not, question the validity of such evidence conventiently found during a criminal act. Personally I think anyone involved with the obama campaign should try to get so far away from this information as they possibly can, because due to the action of alot of obama's supporters the average voter could assume that barack obama, is causing good wholesome college educated white young people to behaive in a criminal matter, and while that may not be logical often times people don't use logic very often when drawing conclusions. And so using this information could cause some people to draw some very nice opinions about mr obama and the influence that he has on people.
Absolutely we should question the validity of this account, especially since the GOP stop at nothing to hide, lie, suppress, and corrupt evidence. This "nut job" as you put it was another example of the idiots on the GOP campaign. They deleted damaging evidence and then "presented" it to the public as a "hacking job done by the left."
Wake up America. Trooper gate, S&L (McCain one of the Keating Five), the manipulation and threats to democratic voters, intercepting and routing to the GOP campaign all inquires to Alaska about Palin.
Absolutely, question the validity of ANYthing and ALL things the GOP presents.
This “alleged” hacking was actually done by Palin and/or her cohorts to evade the justice system over the Troopergate investigation. More corruption of the Palin/McCain team.
America tired of lipstick, now they present another Palin DISTRACTION.
Oh, but indeed they are soulmates. Palin enmeshed in Troopergate scandal, and he one of the original Keating Five in the S&L scandal. Both corrupt politicians! Oh yeah, soulmates all the way through!
Corrupt Politicians both!
First, I am not so sure it was illegal. Governor Palin was illegally using this Yahoo account to avoid disclosure of her work e-mails, e-mails that should be subject to freedom of information requests. As these E-mails clearly show, Governor Palin and other Republicans attempted to hide illegal activities through the illegal use of Yahoo to conduct "State" business.
The citizen who revealed this was a whistleblower, not a hacker. Where it is illegal to shoot a person randomly, shooting an armed burglar is self-defense. This Citizen was merely helping support our laws that the Republicans have ignored, broken and laughed at.
What this shows is Governor Palin needs to be prosecuted for violating State and Federal laws by attempting to hide official communications. Many of these Emails clearly show abuse of power and conspiracy, and conspiracy to commit felonies.
The objection the author has to the efficacy of these posts is a red herring to distract us from the true facts of the continued criminal activity and deliberate attempts of the Republican Party to treat all Citizens who are not their rich elite friends as ignorant peasants’ to be laughed at and ignored.
We need to be a nation of laws. it is not right to hack Palin's e-mails. If we have a legitimate interest in those e-mails, they should be accessed through the courts.
I agree with you on principal but Fire needs to be fought with fire....The GOP has been circumventing th law for years and while 2 wrongs do not make a right they need to be exposed as the greedy liars they are...
How has Sarah Palin been involved in this so called circumventing of the laws for years? Also, how has any non-governmental individuals who were hacked as a result of sending e-mails to there friend "Sarah Palin" involved in this so called circumventing of the law? Sarah was a city council woman, a Mayor followed by Governor. Not exactly the elite of the Republican Party.
Sorry - no sympathy here. This is the political party that believes my private conversations, club meetings, church services and email should be accessible and read at will without a warrant, so how can they complain that Ms Palin's privacy has been violated? Have we not been told by Homeland Security that Americans should have no expectations of privacy in a Post 9-11 world. How can the party that has trounced the Bill of Rights and said privacy is the sanctuary of terrorists now demand privacy for one of their own?
This must be terrifying for John McCain who recently discovered that he has been Googled by millions. He must wonder why he never felt it!
No, the Republican Party doesn't believe that all conversations should read without a warrant.
Don't believe the liars and hacks that don't present the facts.
Cowboy - your last paragraph is screamingly funny. Should not have been drinking coffee at the same time. I guess John had to check and see if he had installed Google on his homemade blackberry
Well, a felony is a felony. I understand it may be the son of a democratic representative who did it. That would be a surprise. The democratic party involved in felonious matters. Up to now it has just been adultery and hypocracy.
The GOPs try to squash Troopergate investigation, they intercept all media inquiries to Alaska about Palin, and now, how convenient, her email has been hacked into!
And guess what! There was no damaging ties to Troopergate!
Of course not! She deleted it all, and after her email account was cleaned, then its presented to the public in a guise of “hacking” by the left no less.
More corruption! Another attempt at Palin DISTRACTION! Wake up America!
This “alleged” hacking was actually done by Palin and/or her cohorts to evade the justice system over the Troopergate investigation. More corruption of the Palin/McCain team.
The harder they try to hide to cover their tracks, the more they seem to have to hide. Full investigation. We should not let up. This stinks like Rove Bush/Cheney tactics all over, the whole affair. Let's hope it will be a thing of the distant past in 2 months when we have a Obama/Biden Presidency.
Coverup! Coverup!
Why is she stonewalling the Troopergate investigation?
What is Palin hiding?
Also, why won’t Palin release her Tax Returns and Medical Records?
WHAT IS PALIN HIDING?!
Where is this “Open and Transparent Government” she keeps talking about?
Sleek - when you put all those points together - I just figured it out
Its not Sarah Heath
Its not Sarah Palin
Its..................................................... Sarah Connor
Now, lets see if we can figure this out. I'm sure we can, given the level of intellectual functioning of posters on this blog.
Anything that distracts from her campaign is bad for the republicans and good for the democrats.
Could that be it?
You mean the same records that the Clinton's released in both campaigns?
"In a statement released by the McCain-Palin campaign, Rick Davis, the campaign manager, called the incident "a shocking invasion of the Governor's privacy." "
What is so shocking is that she used personal e-mail to conduct state business.
Hasn't the McCain campaign caught on to her yet? She is not to be trusted.
Palin's speechwriter read Pat Buchan's "Right from the Beginning." As far as Pegler and Truman go, they detested each otter. HST called Pegler a "gutter-snipe." Pegler called Truman a "thin-lipped hater. . . "
Face it Repubics have a habit of not taking security seriously. They leak classified information for political purposes, they use easy to hack accounts to do sensitive government business. So imagine a Palin as Veep... she uses Yahoo to discuss with her civilian hubby the next country they plan to invade... yea. Safeguarding classified information is at the top of their minds, NOT.
Typical democratic spin. Did it with Clinton. Spitzer made a career of it. The emails were taken criminally. Get it? Their content is irrelevant and taken as fruit of a poisoned tree. Wagging fingers at the republicans to justify a democrat's felonious acts is just ludicrous.
What's the big deal, particularly in Alaska ,that hockey-sticking, mom, would do such a thing considering she is a "pitbull in lipstick"? Nice try Sarah. This moronic, religious right idiot will do anything, like Bush and Cheney, to get elected, and stay there....official business on a personal email? What's the difference with intimidating your employees so they won't talk about Troopergate and having an edge by "hiding the puck"? Next thing you know, out come the helicopters and "wild hunting safaris"....baby, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Yes, it is now obvious how deeply conniving this woman is. She has even gone so far as to somehow persuade an innocent to hack her email and broadcast unimportant information to the public. Sinister! Who does this woman think she is? I mean, she hasn't even ever been connected to any domestic terrorists or racist anti-American ministers (Obama). She has never stolen the life story of a British politician and tried to pass it off as her own (Biden). And she dared (dared!) to run for high office without first being married to someone in high office (Clinton). These uppity women with their families and their religious convictions must be stopped. They're just not our kind of people.
Looks like Sarah doesn't do a very good job of checking he email. Sure are a lot of unread items spanning back quite a ways....
So THAT'S why McCain choose her! She knows how to use "the Email!"
She doesn't know jack about security, however....
Conversion in McCain camp
"We're getting killed in the media about being out of touch with modern communications. Quick! Find a teenager to send an email to every VP possibiity and see if anyone answers back!"
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