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First thing I thought this morning when I heard the breaking news on KCOL 600; and as I've posted earlier, boy, it looks I am not as paranoid as I though...

Overall, hacking is not the correct thing, BUT why would someone that high of position use a Yahoo! account?? She needs to use a more secure e-mail system.

J2,

That's her personal account. She has an official account from the State of Alaska.

George, of course Obama will issue a terse statement denouncing the invasion of Governor Palin's privacy with about the same amount of vigor as he denounced Maria Isabel's Che flag in her Obama volunteer office.

Henry, great retort...."same amount of vigor"

He is the son of a sitting Democratic state legislatior in Tennessee:
rep.mike.kernell@legislature.state.tn.us

I emailed him w/out a response but the guy in Athens, whose company he used, who is now cooperating, Gabriel Ramuglia, graduated from college in Alaska, but feigns any participation.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/funkywizard

People used that information to even call Bristol via her cell number and leave messages urging her to have an abortion, I won't even mention the site, but it is Canadian.

This hacker needs to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, made an example of, but I want to know the ties that bind his daddy to the Chicago operations.

Just like Hollis French and Kim Elton in Alaska, in that sham "investigation"...

Any notice how the MSM doesn't talk about Iraq gate and Barry's violation of the Logan Act!!!!

Very cute, guys. While we fret over the Democrat's son's still undetermined motives, we have the spectacle of the Obama and McCain campaigns poised to express outrage over privacy issues with which they've shown little interest in the last eight years, except to allow the Bush administration access to our phone calls and emails. If you're truly outraged, you had your chance to show in the spring, when the FISA legislation was being put to a vote.

Thin, is your full name Thinwhiteduke bin Mohammed? Do you make daily calls to Iran or Syria? Do you buy lots of fertilizer and fuel oil? No? Okay, then shut the fuck up. If FISA would have worked before we would've known about Zacarias Moussaoui and co-conspirators plans before 9/11. So please, stow your outrage and just shut the fuck up.

BTW, great link you gave us from an objective, unbiased journalist. Thanks!

As an administrator and faculty member at a local university, I see lot of stupid kids who've been reported to Judicial Affairs for stuff like this. If you really believed in law and order, you wouldn't jump to the conclusion that OF COURSE the son and father were in cahoots to read Gov. Palin's email (have you ever met a college student who followed his parents' political convictions to a T?). The kid should be prosecuted and, if convicted, fined or thrown in jail. If the father was involved, do the same. But jumping to conclusions like you did smacks of desperation.

As for the larger issue...no one's arguing over whether the US has the right to eavesdrop on the calls of alleged terrorists; but if the call originated in the US, and one of the callers was a US citizen, the FISA court exists to determine whether there was just cause in spying on a US citizen. Nine times out of ten the court would cede the argument to the federal government. If the Bush administration had a legitimate beef with the law, it could have worked with Congress to change the law. It didn't: it chose to circumvent and actively break the law. This is illegal. In a civil society, you don't break the law in order to show its idiocy. How would it look in court if you told the judge that you ran a four-way stop because you thought a stop sign at that intersection was a stupid idea? In this case, you would write to your local commissioner or zoning official. Regrettably, Congress approved the White House's lawbreaking in June, and the president signed it shortly thereafter. Barack Obama supported the president; his vote went a long way towards eroding my belief in his commitment to civil liberties. I'm not sure why you weren't so worked up in June.

It's a very peculiar understanding of conservatism to give the benefit of the doubt to the government. Our government does not have your best interests at heart. Our government, comprised of human beings, needs to be watched constantly.

Greenwald is not an objective journalist -- he's a constitutional lawyer. There are several lawyers on this blog. I dare you to rebut his arguments one by one with evidence.

Finally, my great aunt (who died in 2005) had a niece who lived in Oran, Algeria with a committed Islamist. I would hate to think that our gov't spied on this US citizen's calls without a warrant -- or mine, for being related to her. Crimes are never a problem when they involve other people besides yourself, right?

All very nice, Thin. I didn't jump to conclusions. This is all over the blogosphere. Not on the MSM, of course. God forbid they have to use the "D" word in conjunction with a potential scandal.

You're willing to give the benefit of the doubt to a kid, who happens to have a Democrat politician father -- which makes him immediately suspect in my mind -- who may have hacked into a Vice Presidential candidate's email account in violation of a bunch of Federal laws! You may be willing to forgive the malcontents in your school for doing this, but I -- and I dare say a lot of folks who read this blog -- do not. If it's him I hope the Secret Service nails his ass to the wall and anybody else who helped him.

I sincerely hope you didn't talk to your great aunt's niece much... :-)

Haha. Naw, she was a chiseler.

Haha. Naw, she was a chiseler.

Lucky for you Thin......LOL

“I want you to argue with them and get in their face." Or emails, or mailboxes or whatever.

In other words… I need for you to do all my dirty work because I’m the anointed one.

Stupid kid! See if Obama gives a rat’s ass about what happens to you.

thin,

Can you say "astroturfing?"

there, I knew you could.

Kernell is going to be very popular in jail.

Thin,
A conservative does not trust the government to do things for us. He wants the government out of our lives as much as possible. That's why we don't want Obama or Clinton. They think the government gives the best access to health care, redistribution of wealth, oversight of the economy, and thought. We prefer the candidates who promise lower taxes, reduced spending and less regulation. When our side does not do these things, it loses popularity among us.
What gets me is how liberals only worry about the government's influence when a non liberal government is in power. Did you ever complain about Clinton's stealing FBI files, or firing the whole travel office and trying to ruin the reputation of the head of that office or....?
I feel no loss of my civil rights or privacy over these last years. I see no evidence of any such loos for my liberal friends either.
Heavens, don't try to pin the label of trust in government on us! If you don't trust government, how can you want Obama as your president?

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