And these are the same people championing personal privacy. Spying on Islamists? You go directly to jail.

Spying on a VP candidate? Publish it on the NET!

"And was Obama goading McCain with his "He doesn't use email" ad to get an email account so hackers could have their way with him too??"

Some nuts hack into Palin's email and immediately fingers point at Obama???
That is pretty low.

"And these are the same people championing personal privacy. Spying on Islamists? You go directly to jail.

Spying on a VP candidate? Publish it on the NET!

#1 | Posted by anamerican at 2008-09-17 03:22 PM"

Hacking into another person's e-mail is illegal, shameful, and tasteless.

Meanwhile, does anyone else detect a bit of irony given the whoopla for FISA from the "if you've got nothing to hide" crowd ;-)?

BTW, the spying is not JUST for Islamists, it's for ALL AMERICANS. Again, I guess that's OK for those too "lazy" to get a warrant. WWFFD (What Would the Founding Fathers Do)?!

A link might be nice.

Not saying it's not true, just want to read it for my ownself.

Some nuts hack into Palin's email and immediately fingers point at Obama???

I am pretty certain those "nuts" were Obama supporters. McCain supporters wouldn't have done it.

I hesitate to provide the link because the site that may be responsible has screenshots of her email, photos and contact names. If it were me, I wouldn't want someone to provide a link to that information so I am trying to respect her privacy as long as I can.

But I'm sure it will be out there soon.

This is a new low, folks.

"And was Obama goading McCain with his "He doesn't use email" ad to get an email account so hackers could have their way with him too?? "

"I am pretty certain those "nuts" were Obama supporters. McCain supporters wouldn't have done it."

two of the dumbest things i have ever heard in my life

"Some nuts hack into Palin's email and immediately fingers point at Obama???

I am pretty certain those "nuts" were Obama supporters. McCain supporters wouldn't have done it.

#5 | Posted by anamerican at 2008-09-17 03:38 PM"

Well I, for one, am glad THAT is settled ;-)!

I wouldn't put it beneath Obama's campaign to be behind this. As well as some of the other smear tactics that have come out since Palin was announced. They want to find something dirty on her and are not leaving one stone unturned.

"As well as some of the other smear tactics that have come out since Palin was announced"

YEAH!

Can you list them (the "smears")?

More about this story here

I wouldn't put it beneath Obama's campaign to be behind this.

Yeah, we kinda got that was what you thought.

This is a new low, folks."
#6 | Posted by anamerican at 2008-09-17 03:42 PM

YEAH!

Lower than whispering that someone has an illegitimate "black" baby, even?

Hey look, McCain's Black Baby is in Palin's address book!

Governor Palin has come under criticism for using private email accounts to conduct government business and in the process avoid transparency laws. The zip archive made available by Wikileaks contains screen shots of Palin's inbox, two example emails, address book and a couple of family photos. The list of correspondence, together with the account name, appears to re-enforce the criticism. Wikileaks may release additional emails should they be of political substance.

Oh, Corky, you just screwed up AA's nobility.

Of course, he was hoping someone would.

AA, just why was Palin using her private email account to conduct state business?

cause that's what republicans do?

Poor McCain.

He'd probably like just one day's rest from Palin Problems.

I wouldn't put it beneath Obama's campaign to be behind this.

Well I am shocked at that revelation.

Actually I was thinking more along the lines of Turd Blossom being behind this, after all he did "break into" his own candidates office and plant a listening device, then called the police.

Of course the fingers were automatically pointed at the innocent opponent and before the truth came out the damage was done and the election was over.

This has "Rove" written all over it.

AA, just why was Palin using her private email account to conduct state business?

#16 | Posted by TedBaxter

Ask Turd Blossom.

Because private e-mail accounts are outside the scope of laws requiring the retaining and archiving of government e-mails.

The Goppers have been prepping Saint Sarah, the Mukluk Messiah for years. You really think that she was picked in the last few months? Hell no. She has been in the Goppers pocket since she ran for Mayor and they were just waiting until Hillary ran to use her.

YEAH!

I agree! This looks like a totally manufactured incident created in an effort to camouflage/excuse the Palins Purposeful Destruction of Evidence!

"I wouldn't put it beneath Obama's campaign to be behind this. As well as some of the other smear tactics that have come out since Palin was announced. They want to find something dirty on her and are not leaving one stone unturned.

#9 | Posted by anamerican at 2008-09-17 03:47 PM"

Is it your point is that SOMEONE, who supports Sen. Obama, COULD have done this?

And you're the one concerned about smears (or are you only concerned about Gov. Palin being smeared)?! ;-)

It's also possible that it was "thrill seekers", the next door neighbors, Al-Qaeda, or even the McCain campaign (if one is conspiracy-inclined).
Your "gut feeling" is a non sequitur for proof of your accusation.

It is funny that they are concerned about the Halfrican Muslim Communist Marxist Drug Dealer smearing their candidate

Meanwhile, does anyone else detect a bit of irony given the whoopla for FISA from the "if you've got nothing to hide" crowd ;-)?

#3 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2008-09-17 03:35 PM | Reply

"I wouldn't put it beneath Obama's campaign to be behind this. As well as some of the other smear tactics that have come out since Palin was announced. They want to find something dirty on her and are not leaving one stone unturned.

#9 | Posted by anamerican at 2008-09-17 03:47 PM""

No, of course you wouldn't because you have a deep seated hatred for the black man who would be president. You have absolutely not one shred of evidence or even a history of such incidents that the Obama campaign has been guilty of.
Smear tactics about Palin....puhleeeez....how about...OMG! Obama is a Muslim!!!!

"It is funny that they are concerned about the Halfrican Muslim Communist Marxist Drug Dealer smearing their candidate"

Very well put.

It is funny that they are concerned about the Halfrican Muslim Communist Marxist Drug Dealer smearing their candidate

#23 | Posted by 726

You left off "mentored by a known terrorist".

Palin's Personal Email Hacked by Haters

I call BULLSHIT. Provide a link if you can.
My guess is this is a bullshit rumor to inflame the gullible GOP base as they begin to realize that Sarah! was a huge mistake.

I hear that the hackers have refused to cooperate with the investigation.

Suck it!

"I call BULLSHIT. Provide a link if you can. My guess is this is a bullshit rumor to inflame the gullible GOP base as they begin to realize that Sarah! was a huge mistake."

The link was posted by Corky within the thread. You can also do a quick google search and find it yourself. I call bullshit on your lack of effort and knee-jerk bullshit response.

Ah, Danni. If the Republican candidate were black and the Democrat candidate white, would you support the black candidate just because he was black? Me doubts it.

Color has nothing to do with my dislike of his ideals and policies. The fact that he just happens to be black doesn't and shouldn't change my opinion.

Oh the irony, the Tighties have been bleating for years that they don't care who looks at their personal information as they have nothing to hide. Well, if Sarah's got nothing to hide.....
Oh wait, she does, she's been conducting state business with her personal eMail.

Sounds like a Rove tactic where he breaks into his own candidates offices and blames it on the opposition. It worked in prior political campaigns and on 911--why not pass the wisdom on to Palin?

I wouldn't be surprised at all if Palin hired some and gave them her password so that the account would be deleted without having her look guilty of destroying evidence.

Just another lying crook trying to get over on America.

(AP) Palins personal email reveals she saw smokestacks and the moon and fell for that bigfoot hoax. She is now widely considered the second biggest ass-clown on the fact of the planey. Right behind some tool named Bob, hailing from Columbus, OH.

Yahoo should have all those emails on their servers.

They aren't gone.

Wow, AP sure does need an editor! I think they meant "face" not "fact", and I think they meant "planet", not "planey".
They aren't sure how to spell "hailing" by the way.

"Hailing" appears to be okay.

I thought at first AP(lib bastards) was making a funny regarding Plain/Palin.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if Palin hired some and gave them her password so that the account would be deleted without having her look guilty of destroying evidence.

Posted by Buffalo_Bob

And I'll bet that someone was wearing a $200.00 Bigfoot costume so as not to be recognized.

"Meanwhile, does anyone else detect a bit of irony given the whoopla for FISA from the "if you've got nothing to hide" crowd ;-)?"

Newsworthy.

The fact that he just happens to be black doesn't and shouldn't change my opinion.

#30 | Posted by anass

Your accusation, without any foundation, proves YOU are just as slimy as those who may have hacked the email.

There is no more evidence of your supposition that the Obama campaign did this then there is that the McCain campaign did this to garner sympathy.

You post a thread like this and then you kick your own moral standing from under yourself. You are AnAmericanAss, idiot.

Newsworthy.

#38 | Posted by truthsetyoufree at 2008-09-17 04:40 PM | Reply

The fact that your messiah Obama is pro-FISA? Nah, it's not newsworthy. It's "hope" and most assuredly, "change".

YEAH!

I agree! This looks like a totally manufactured incident created in an effort to camouflage/excuse the Palins Purposeful Destruction of Evidence!

----

YEAH!

Cause I was going to do a fake spoof post saying the same thing but you beat me with a real post.

YEAH!

Anything bad that happens to the Dems is because of the Bush-bots and their fake plastic friends.

YEAH!

Anything bad that happens to the Republicans is a fake plastic set up by the Bush-bots and their fake plastic friends!

YEAH!

I blame my hemorrhoids and constant YEAH! drivel on the Bush-bots and their fake plastic friends!

Ooooh, so hacking someone's email account and posting on the web is AOK? Glad you guys straightened that out for me.

sarc/

BTW, shouldn't access to her personal emails be subpoenaed by the court if there is a suspicion of misuse?

BTW, shouldn't access to her personal emails be subpoenaed by the court if there is a suspicion of misuse?

#42 | Posted by anamerican

They have been. Just like Dick Cheney does they're fighting the release of them, and testimony by state employees despite subpoenas and PALIN'S guarantees of cooperation with the investigation - well, until she became the VP nominee.

Thanks AU. Now I know why they hacked her emails and that justifies the hacking.

s/

Someone could chop Palin into little pieces and AU would have an excuse for it. Let the Obama fanatics have their circle jerk. They aren't swaying a single voter to their side with their obsessive Palin bullshit, just disgusting most of mainstream America.

Ah, Joe, you're so two weeks ago. These days most of the things coming out about Palin have a basis in fact, and they aren't pretty.

Which is why Frank Luntz is looking so unhappy...

Oh no - her favorability ratings are "starting to falter." I suppose if democrats and the media are in non-stop attack mode for weeks at a time, that might "start to" happen. Trust me when I say that in the end, the only people this garbage matters to are people like you.

JOE

I'd suspect Palin's fall in approval has to do with the fact she's a crap cookie with sugar coating. People are starting to get a taste of what she's really made of.

If by people like me you mean people who make fun of you, well, I guess you do have a point there.

What a surprise that the two lefties in the thread think that the Palin obsession matters to mainstream America. Forgive me for not changing my opinion amidst your circle jerk.

You may be right, Joe. To use your terms, people like you wouldn't care if all of it were true, eh?

Correct - because I'm not voting for her anyway. Makes no difference to me.

So, you are just here to correct the rest of us, as you will be filling in "Joe" at the ballot box?

Or voting for someone you know has no chance?

Perfect.

Polls don't mean shit, right? Or is it just when Obama is behind?

"Obama is part of the FISA "you've got nothing to hide crowd" right dummy? Oh, but I'm sure this is some how different...

#24 | Posted by 101Chairborne at 2008-09-17 04:13 PM"

No and I don't like it, but it seems you feel free to ascribe thoughts/positions to me that I don't hold (between name-calling, of course)!

Just how old ARE you?

TRUEBLUE

He's a child trapped in a man's body

"So, you are just here to correct the rest of us, as you will be filling in "Joe" at the ballot box?"

Yeah, Corky, but I'm sure Joe spends half of his time at pro-McCain sites "correcting" them, being that he is so "principled".

Now there was a certain group of people who hacked into Sen. Kennedy's email during the 2004, election.........can't quite recall who.........

hahaha

See Joe. See Button. Push button. Watch Joe burble!

My political principle lies with a Party that is for working Americans, not a person.

The NEO-GOP may be acceptable to your principles, but they aren't to mine.

Go study.

"My political principle lies with a Party that is for working Americans, not a person."

In other words, you're a sheep who will be casting his vote for a person you ripped on as unqualified for three months of your life.

To each his own.

Corky, I imagine you've changed your mind over the Rezco affair, right?

Wis, the beauty of being "committed to a party" (but only after they nominate the person you don't like) is that you don't have to care about anything a particular person within the party does. All you have to do is follow the other sheep and punch the ballot like a good little democrat.

All you have to do is follow the other sheep and punch the ballot like a good little democrat.

#63 | Posted by JOE

9 Palin threads on the front page alone. Tell me the left isn't scared.

Polls don't mean shit, right? Or is it just when Obama is behind?

#54 | Posted by wisgod at 2008-09-17 05:19 PM | Reply |

Actually, that would be you. I believe the polls. I believed them all along. You pick and choose when you believe them.

I find it ironic that 80% of the country thinks we are headed in the wrong direction and yet this election is so close.

I find it deeply disturbing that McCain tells lie after lie, and even when busted on it---continues to tell the same lie. That's a communist tactic.

McCain called for the deregulation that enabled the AIG mess of today. He voted to have the restrictions removed so that this could happen. "Less government involvement in business" I think he called it.

Let's see--how did it happen again?

It was the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act that repealed the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act and thus eliminated the depression-era walls between between banking, investment, and insurance that made this crisis possible. Glass-Stegall erected walls between banking, investment management, and insurance, so problems in one sector could not spill over into the others, which is precisely what is happening now. The primary author of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act was none other than McCain's economic advisor, former senator Phil Gramm (who thinks the country is in a "mental recession"). McCain fully supported the bill and has a decades-long track record of opposing government regulation of the financial industry. His new-found conversion to being a fan of regulation is going to be a tough sell as Obama is already pointing out that McCain got what he wanted (deregulation) and this is the consequence.

And I'll bet that someone was wearing a $200.00 Bigfoot costume so as not to be recognized.

#37 | Posted by wisgod at 2008-09-17 04:36 PM |

Why would someone be wearing a Bigfoot costume so as not to be recognized? Don't you think that would draw attention? Are you drinking or snorting tonight?

ff !

9 Palin threads on the front page alone. Tell me the left isn't scared.

#64 | Posted by wisgod at 2008-09-17 05:46 PM | Reply

Scared of what? Four more years of Bush or four years of some whacked out Jesus freak? Actually, I'm too old to get scared of that--it won't affect my life one way or another. I guess you're too stupid to be scared--probably aren't bright enough to read the papers. Ever heard of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac/Bear Stearns/Aig/failed banks.

9 Palin threads on the front page alone. Tell me the left isn't scared.

#64 | Posted by wisgod at 2008-09-17 05:46 PM | Reply

The hacking continues, you dope, how many of those palin threads are created by you republicanrepo dopes?

All the really tech-savvy net geeks are big Obama supporters. In fact, the McCain campaign is full of troglodytes who can't even manage to send an email, let alone hack into a secure email system, at least if Obama's ads are to be believed.

Out of fairness, though, it seems only right that Joe Biden to surrender his email records.

The hacking continues, you dope, how many of those palin threads are created by you republicanrepo dopes?

#69 | Posted by moneywar
* * * *

Interesting question! Let's see:

Palin Won't Cooperate in Troopergate Investigation
726 (Lefty)

Palin Linked Electoral Success to Witch Hunter's Prayer
Nullifidian (Lefty)

Repubs File Suit to Stop Palin Investigation
USN (Lefty)

Palin Installed Tanning Bed in Governor's Mansion
Gal Tuesday (Lefty)

Fiorina: Palin Couldn't Run Big Corporation
Nullifidian again

RIR

Is your point that Palin is a poor choice? I agree. Excellent points.

I frequent the site where these claims of "hacking" first appeared.

It wasn't so much hacking as looking things up on Wikipedia the person who did it explained. Yahoo mail asks you questions in order to retrieve a lost password, and the answers to the questions asked were easily found out via Wikipedia and other sites.

These people are not hackers in any sense of the word, they are just teenagers to twenty-somethings who enjoy messing with people for the fun of it.

Tell me the left isn't scared.

McSame/caribou barbie dropped 12 points on gallup in the last week(before the Market he deregulated crashed).
Saint sarah's new car smell wore off and people are seeing she's just a lemon with a new wax job. 7 more weeks of troopergate and Mcsame's economic failures to go.

Ooooh, so hacking someone's email account and posting on the web is AOK? Glad you guys straightened that out for me.

It's a crime, but the hackers distributed it so widely that there's no putting the genie back in the bottle.

It also is a crime in some places for officials to use a personal email address for government business.

No, of course you wouldn't because you have a deep seated hatred for the black man who would be president. You have absolutely not one shred of evidence or even a history of such incidents that the Obama campaign has been guilty of.
Smear tactics about Palin....puhleeeez....how about...OMG! Obama is a Muslim!!!!

"It is funny that they are concerned about the Halfrican Muslim Communist Marxist Drug Dealer smearing their candidate"

Very well put.

#25 | Posted by danni at 2008-09-17 04:14 PM | Reply | Flag:

No, it's GOTTA be racism. It can't have ANYTHING to do with the fact that Obama really DOES have a history of dirty tricks and exposing people's private lives to win elections? Of course it can't.

Just as blinded as the Bush enthusiasts. It's really sad, is what it is.

The libs are so SCARED it is funny.

I doubt it was hacked in as much as she just had a stupid password (son's name and birthday), or she got duped online to putting her UID & Password into a screen she thought was her email site but wasn't.

This happens so often to the people I work with its not even shocking anymore...

Random letters, upper and lower, use numbers and symbols... and for the love of fuck don't put in real answers to those "Forgot your password" questions!

And BTW thanks for throwing more sympathy votes to this woman...

and for the love of fuck don't put in real answers to those "Forgot your password" questions!

#78 Posted by Rob_The_A_Hole

Uh oh.

As someone posted, look around her bio, and try things its not that hard to hack a persons email.

Oh yeah, if your at JFK in terminal 3. Free wifi is had by configuring your WiFi for the BritishAirways access point.

Once there the password is "london", that was an easy hack, Palin might have been just as easy.

I haven't tried it at SFO yet...

Hey, AndreaMackris, you're pretty good.

"Hey, AndreaMackris, you're pretty good."

I think she's overrated. lol.

This is horrible. The hackers involved are pretty damn stupid to go for a person that might be VP one day.

They're going to prison, no question. And they deserve to.

continued from above:

Then the white knight fucker came along, and did it in for everyone, I trusted /b/ with that email password, I had gotten done what I could do well, then passed the torch , all to be let down by the douchebaggery, good job /b/, this is why we cant have nice things

The white knight fucker-- was the /b/tard who thought that going through Sarah Palins email wasnt cool. He logged in, changed the password, and sent an email to a friend of Palins warning her and letting her know the new password. Unfortunately, he then posted a screenshot of this email to let the other /b/tards know their fun was over. He failed to blank the password, and they all tried to log in and change the password which tripped the automated Yahoo! freeze. Since then, the account has been deleted. Rapidshit-- refers to rapidshare.com i.e., rubico wanted to download the emails, put them into one file, and put that file up on rapidshare for /b/tards and the world at large to download. But he panicked, or didnt know how to download the emails, and so pawned that task off on Anonymous, which he didnt realize wasnt monolithic and in his favor.

two of the dumbest things i have ever heard in my life

#7 | Posted by klifferd

Stick around

If you don't want to have to encrypt everything you do, then be a plumber.

I have only one word to say about this.

Rove.

The law will catch up to the hackers, but what about the lowlifes who are now gleefully splashing the alleged contents of Palins private e-mail account all over the Internet?

The law will catch up to the hackers?

HA HA HA HA HA!

You make funny.

Using Yahoo was a retarded move on her part, but the clowns who did this should be tossed in a jail cell for a few years.

And the folks at Gawker should be put away as well.

The white knight fucker-- was the /b/tard who thought that going through Sarah Palins email wasnt cool. He logged in, changed the password, and sent an email to a friend of Palins warning her and letting her know the new password. Unfortunately, he then posted a screenshot of this email to let the other /b/tards know their fun was over. He failed to blank the password, and they all tried to log in and change the password which tripped the automated Yahoo! freeze. Since then, the account has been deleted. Rapidshit-- refers to rapidshare.com i.e., rubico wanted to download the emails, put them into one file, and put that file up on rapidshare for /b/tards and the world at large to download. But he panicked, or didnt know how to download the emails, and so pawned that task off on Anonymous, which he didnt realize wasnt monolithic and in his favor.

#87 | Posted by anamerican at 2008-09-17 09:01 PM | Reply | Flag:

Gotta love that stupid attitude that the people doing the right thing are the bastards, and the person who broke in in the first place is some kinda hero. What a retard. I hope he enjoys his size 11 asshole to go along with his twisted morality when it lands him in jail.

9 Palin threads on the front page alone. Tell me the left isn't scared.

#64 | Posted by wisgod at 2008-09-17 05:46 PM

What is this constant fixation with the left running "scared" because there is a lot of internet traffic about her right now.

I think the opposite is true. The right is scared to see all this traffic as it knows that information is power and if too much information on Palin gets out too fast the Moose will be cooked!

The fact is that Palin was sprung on us this way for this very reason. You gotta give the Republicans credit where credit is due.

The do know how to run a campaign. They know all about information warfare and how to use it.

They just don't know how to run a country.

And I think there is too much time between us and the election.

The polls are already starting to slip for McCain as more and more information gets out there on Mr Magoo and his MILF.

As for this "event" it is just a distraction.

Nothing here can be really "used again her" it was gotten illegally. But those seeds can be planted. The rethugs are so great at planting those "seeds".

But, Obama is learning fast, too.

But I tend to agree with 726's post.

This has "Rove" written all over it.

#19 | Posted by 726 at 2008-09-17 03:57 PM

And the folks at Gawker should be put away as well.

#93 | Posted by MURPHY

By that logic everyone who lied about Obama calling Palin a pig should also be "put away".

Anyone who has a government e-mail account, and uses a private e-mail account for government business is an idiot and possibly a criminal.

There are VERY FEW agencies which need a birthday. Use a made-up birthday if anyone but a government agency asks for it.

Avoid putting any personal information that could bite you in the ass on social websites. Favorite band is okay. Sexual preferences not so much.

The hacking continues, you dope, how many of those palin threads are created by you republicanrepo dopes?

#69 | Posted by moneywar

God, you are one dumb SOB. You can see who authored the threads. Unless 726 and truthhurts are republicans you twit.

The hacking continues, you dope, how many of those palin threads are created by you republicanrepo dopes?

#69 | Posted by moneywar

God, you are one dumb SOB. You can see who authored the threads. Unless 726 and truthhurts are republicans you twit.

#99 | Posted by wisgod at 2008-09-18 08:21 AM

gee one Palin thread by me on 9/11
one on 9/4
one on 9/3
and one on 8/29 announcing palin as the pick

yep complete obssesion on palin

gee your dumb

All the really tech-savvy net geeks are big Obama supporters.
#70 | Posted by rightisright

I won't even bother to ask for a link to that idiocy.

I don't know how you can say that, after all McCain invented the BlackBerry, Wi Fi and cell phones.

I think he would have to be pretty tech saavy to accomplish all that.

I think the opposite is true. The right is scared to see all this traffic as it knows that information is power and if too much information on Palin gets out too fast the Moose will be cooked!

Factomundo!

The right would rather all these little stories about her just go away. Ignorance is bliss. They are scared of what will be dug up on her and they are definitely not liking what has been found so far.

The Mukluk Messiah is turning out to be a turd in a beehive hairdo.

gee your dumb

#99 | Posted by truthhurts

your?

unless they did it from a public p.c., they'll be caught and made an example - otherwise, like any coward who would do such a thing - they'll just laugh it off. don't laugh, people - it could be any one of us suffering the same fate.

ugh damned self retorting retort!

must not post till i have finished 2nd cup of coffee

This just goes to prove what slimeballs democrats are.

must not post till i have finished 2nd cup of coffee

#105 | Posted by truthhurts

I know what you mean. :)

what does this say about palin's capabilities relative to security?

what does this say about palin's capabilities relative to security?

#108 | Posted by truthhurts

She isn't running for V.P. of the I.T. Department.

nope but she is running to potentially be the CiC. one would think she should be more security conscious.

imd sure her password was her birthdate or something.

What more could she do, considering it was a yahoo account? And we don't know what her login and password was. I'm sure you think it was

Login: Sarah
Password: Palin

"It also is a crime in some places for officials to use a personal email address for government business."

Is it a crime in Alaska? If not, why would that matter? Weak.

well primarily I would have preferred that she not use a private account to conduct official business, but that's just me.

When is Gal Tuesday going to start a thread about Palin getting her period?

"It also is a crime in some places for officials to use a personal email address for government business."

Is it a crime in Alaska? If not, why would that matter? Weak.

Palin had claimed executive privilege for documents copied to her husband, who is not a state employee, in responding to an open records request in June made by Andre McLeod, an activist in Anchorage. The administrative appeal filed yesterday by McLeod's attorney, Donald C. Mitchell, argued that by copying Todd Palin on sensitive state correspondence, the governor and her aides shattered the privilege rightly afforded elected officials.

"She has allowed Todd Palin -- who has not been elected by the people of Alaska, who is not a state employee -- to entangle himself apparently as he sees fit in the operations of the executive branch of the state government," Mitchell said.

"From the case law, if government voluntarily opens up that internal decision-making to what I would call civilians, then that is waiver of that protection of the government policy decision-making process. That is what happened here, and it happened because Sarah Palin doesn't understand it," he said.

Trighurts-

Your cut and paste had nothing to do with my comment. Please don't quote me if your response is going to be about something else.

gee one Palin thread by me on 9/11
one on 9/4
one on 9/3
and one on 8/29 announcing palin as the pick

yep complete obssesion on palin

gee your dumb

#99 | Posted by truthhurts at 2008-09-18 08:27 AM | Reply

How many did you post when you skirted the moderation policy and were posting under the Uallsuck handle?
Another example of your weak character and lying.

umm that would be none unsubstantiated rumor monger.

do you ever tire of being wrong trollboy?

Joe you asked what is wrong with her using a personal account to conduct official state business.

she was apparently involving her husband in official state business and is now claiming executive priveledge on those communications. her husband has no standing as part of the executive of AK. If she were communicating to her husband on official busing using private email than that opens her private account to public scrutiny.

and it gets worse

there are government laws requiring the retention of public records (including Email). if she was conducting public business using that private account, that falls under the records retention laws.

and if this ends up in a criminal investigation (if mind you), she COULD be destroying evidence.

"Joe you asked what is wrong with her using a personal account to conduct official state business."

No I didn't. I asked whether it was a crime since someone else insinuated that it was. Your response has nothing to do with criminal law.

do you recall typing the following:

"It also is a crime in some places for officials to use a personal email address for government business."

Is it a crime in Alaska? If not, why would that matter? Weak.

#112 | Posted by JOE

I have explained why it may be a crime and why it may matter if it is not a crime.

"I have explained why it may be a crime"

No you haven't. You're talking about a "waiver of the protection of the government policy decision making process." Post an Alaska statute which states that what Palin did is a crime, or STFU. Simple as that.

please dont criticize me for your poor questions and inability to understand the response.

she may have destroyed evidence required for an investigation.
she may have improperly stored or destroyed public documents-you are aware that there are statutes governing how public documents are generated and stored and destroyed, correct?

and then I proceeded to demonstrate to you how even if what shed did was NOT a crime, we still need to be concerned, ie why it would matter. that was your question.

please dont criticize me for your poor questions and inability to understand the response.

Posted by truthhurts

Seems black and white to me. Is it a crime in Alaska; yes or no? I know you aren't sure, but speculating without knowing is silly.

Trighurts, the question was clear as day. The fact that you chose to answer everything but the question isn't my fault. Again, either post something showing that what she did is in fact a crime in Alaska, or just stop talking about it.

Seems black and white to me. Is it a crime in Alaska; yes or no? I know you aren't sure, but speculating without knowing is silly.

#125 | Posted by wisgod

that's not the question that was asked.

Sloe, sorry you are incapable of understanding your own question.

Trighurts, the very first words in my original post were "Is it a crime in Alaska?" Once again, the fact that you are incapable of reading that and realizing that it was central to my response, that's your problem.

Huh?

Is it a crime in Alaska? If not, why would that matter? Weak.

#112 | Posted by JOE

awwww whizzzgod, nice try at subverting the truth.

post the ENITRE post

"It also is a crime in some places for officials to use a personal email address for government business."

Is it a crime in Alaska? If not, why would that matter? Weak.

#112 | Posted by JOE at 2008-09-18 09:12 AM

the following link answers sloe's question far better than my feeble atttempts

As it has been reported, perhaps dozens of people had the credentials to log into her account by the time it got deleted. Proving that it was her that did the deleting will be next to impossible unless Yahoo can track the IPs, etc. In short, the hackers have given Palin the perfect smokescreen for destroying any evidence that may have been in her Yahoo account. Or is Yahoo, like Google, a company that caves to government requests for privileged information withtout even requiring a warrant? Can't recall...

God Truth, he carried this over from a previous post...

"It also is a crime in some places for officials to use a personal email address for government business."

Then he asked his question. What's up with you today?