SubscribeAP Protects, Encourages Palin Email Hackers
From those defenders of privacy (of criminals only) at the Associated Press:
This screenshot from Gawked.com shows an email account of Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008.
Hackers break into Sarah Palin’s e-mail account
By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer Thu Sep 18
WASHINGTON - Hackers broke into the Yahoo! e-mail account that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin used for official business as Alaska’s governor, revealing as evidence a few inconsequential personal messages she has received since John McCain selected her as his running mate.
“This is a shocking invasion of the governor’s privacy and a violation of law. The matter has been turned over to the appropriate authorities and we hope that anyone in possession of these e-mails will destroy them,” the McCain campaign said in a statement.
The Secret Service contacted The Associated Press on Wednesday and asked for copies of the leaked e-mails, which circulated widely on the Internet. The AP did not comply.
The disclosure Wednesday raises new questions about the propriety of the Palin administration’s use of nongovernment e-mail accounts to conduct state business. The practice was revealed months ago — prior to Palin’s selection as a vice presidential candidate — after political critics obtained internal e-mails documenting the practice by some aides…
Another of the e-mails apparently revealed Wednesday was an exchange in July with Alaska Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell discussing a talk show host who had been critical of Parnell. Parnell declined to discuss the matter.
Palin herself used “gov.sarah” in one of her e-mail addresses, but the hackers targeted her “gov.palin” account. Her husband used “fek9wnr” in his address. “Fe” is the representation for iron, and “k9″ is an abbreviation for canine. Todd Palin was the winner of the grueling Iron Dog snowmobile race, and “fek9wnr” also is Todd Palin’s vehicle license tag in Alaska…
Funny how no one has mentioned that it is a federal offense to intimidate anyone who is running for public office.
The Secret Service contacted The Associated Press on Wednesday and asked for copies of the leaked e-mails, which circulated widely on the Internet. The AP did not comply.
How proud they are of being accomplices after the fact.
Palin herself used “gov.sarah” in one of her e-mail addresses, but the hackers targeted her “gov.palin” account. Her husband used “fek9wnr” in his address.
Clearly the bravos at the Associated Press are putting out this information to encourage these thugs to look for and hack into more emails accounts used by the Palins.
But according to the AP — this is the real crime here:
The disclosure Wednesday raises new questions about the propriety of the Palin administration’s use of nongovernment e-mail accounts to conduct state business.
Something, whether it is improper or not, that is not a crime.
(And weren’t we just hearing John McCain mocked by the Obama crowd a few days ago for not using email?)
But to be fair, the AP has never attempted to hide how much they hate any and all Republicans. And how far they are willing to go to elect their Democrat masters.
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September 17th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Michelle Malkin with more on the break-in to Sarah Palin’s email account, including the news that celebrity smear web site Gawker has published stolen photos of the Palin children as well as Bristol Palin’s private cell phone’s voicemail message:
Note that there has not been a single comment on this in any way from the Obama/Biden campaign.
Sometimes silence says more.
By the way, how was Palin’s account hacked? Weak password? Leak from someone?
Nope.
Via Yahoo’s “password recovery” mechanism:
Those of you with similar accounts may want to close them now.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:59 am
It’s sickening how far the lib media will go just to destroy this woman. ZDNet has also published a slam article on this, using the NYT as their reliable source: http://government.zdnet.com/?p=4013
How silly they are. This will only endear us to Gov. Palin’s plight.
September 18th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Ah but in the “Through The Looking Glass” reverse logic of the Democratic mouthpieces the Drive By Media if the CIA were to hack into the private email account of Osama bin Laden . . . now that would be a crime! Then the AP wouldn’t be satisfied until Bush was impeached and the Pope was assassinated.
September 18th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Our old friend Jennifer Verner has posted this insightful comment at Just One Minute:
September 18th, 2008 at 11:22 am
20 year old is no kid. The clown should get a 5 year prison sentence for his prank. After McCain is elected, he can commute his sentence after a year or two.
September 18th, 2008 at 11:30 am
It’s pathetic, really, the lengths to which they will go. This “kid” should go to jail. right along with his father, whom I don’t believe for a second wasn’t aware of what his son was doing.
And on another note: Obama. this is why presidents don’t use email.
September 18th, 2008 at 11:31 am
“The disclosure Wednesday raises new questions about the propriety of the Palin administration’s use of nongovernment e-mail accounts to conduct state business.”
It comes as no surprise to me that the AP would make THIS point trump the far more obvious violation of Governor Palin’s privacy. But that aside, I’ve looked at the screenshots, and they don’t look like government business to me. Admittedly, one of them is illegible, but it appears that the emails are personal correspondence.
September 18th, 2008 at 11:36 am
“The disclosure Wednesday raises new questions about the propriety of the Palin administration’s use of nongovernment e-mail accounts to conduct state business.”
How about the use of “nongovernment” telephones.
September 18th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Didn’t Obama ridicule Sen. McCain for not using a computer?
No mention about his torture and broken fingers though!!
Gov. Palin uses a computer so they came after her by hacking into her
E mail!
Maybe they wanted to hack Sen. McCain’s E mail too but couldn’t since he didn’t use a computer.
These people have no shame!!
I find this very upsetting.
As Reagan said in 1962 “I did not leave the Democratic party, it left me”.
September 18th, 2008 at 11:59 am
SG, you might want to peruse this thread that has expired off of the Hot Air front page. That combined with this article ought to have a certain 20yo searching for some clean shorts this morning.
September 18th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
I posted a “how he did it” snippet from Michelle Malkin’s site on the “News Selected” thread last night; basically he used Google in combination with Yahoo!’s “forgotten password” feature to reset Palin’s password:
http://sweetness-light.com/arc.....ent-118612
I’d recommend canceling your Yahoo! Mail account now if you have one if you care at all about your privacy.
September 18th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
A few posters at HotAir made these observations, in the spirit of the AP statement above:
Associated Press, December 1941:
“The incident in Hawaii raises new questions about the propriety of the Roosevelt administration’s selection of naval bases . . .”
Associated Press, November 1963:
“The events in Dallas raise new questions about the propriety of the Kennedy administration’s planning of its motorcade route . . .”
September 18th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
when will this be linked to a certain someone’s camp, I have a feeling this punk was paid to do this………………just my intuition
September 18th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
“I’d recommend canceling your Yahoo! Mail account now if you have one if you care at all about your privacy.”
I would recommend NOT selecting security questions for use in password recovery or selecting questions NOBODY could know. I personally don’t select any security questions and have a temporary password mailed to a secondary email address.
September 18th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
“But to be fair, the AP has never attempted to hide how much they hate any and all Republicans. And how far they are willing to go to elect their Democrat masters.”
But if you ask them about it they do lie so I would say you’re being more than fair. To be fair I’d imagine that many of the reporters over there stick in the bias more out of fear of losing their jobs (or cowardice if you like) than ideology. I’m not sure what’s worse cowardice or malice, I’ll let you be the judge. Oh, and many (perhaps most) are just stupid. Cowardice, malice and stupidity. The Associated Press in a nutshell.
September 18th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
You can bet your bottom dollar that nothing will happen to these creeps. “Why,” you may well be asking yourselves?
They’re ‘rats and working on behalf of The Messiah…so whatever they do, in the eyes of the LSM and the elites, it ain’t wrong and ain’t prosecuteable.
We live in a two-tiered world, folks…it you’re a ‘rat, you can get away with any crime on the books. If you’re not, you go to prison.
That needs to be changed, and needs to be changed now.
Anyone else up for a revolution?
September 18th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
It’s getting closer to where fighting fire with fire has to be looked at as an option!
Its crystal clear there are 2 sets of rules out there!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 18th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
“It’s getting closer to where fighting fire with fire has to be looked at as an option!”
Icarus - You’re outraged and frustrated - so am I - but I refuse to adopt the means of the enemy. Call it arrogance, but I’m proud knowing that we’re better than them.
September 18th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Oh, I wish we had the enemy’s means … 9 million from Babs would be nice in the McCain coffers. Not sure I would adopt their ways, though.
September 18th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Obama and his press office of the mainstream media are the moral equivalents of thugs. This vulgar and illegal violation of Gov Palin privacy would have caused their side to howl if the person violated had been the Lord Messiah Obama or Hillary. Obama must be defeated and defeated soundly. Where the hell is Brian Ross’ investigation team?
September 18th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
From ABC News:
This would be really devastating if there was any evidence that Ms. Palin was using her Yahoo email account to run a government.
She wasn’t.
“Palin’s Email Habits Echo Worst Practices of Bush Administration Says Expert”
Huh?
Is this reporter insane? What were the Bush administration’s email nefarious email practices?
They will just say anything.
Sheesh.
September 18th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
I would guess that her having that email account predates her having been in office as governor. It is likely to be one that she has had for several years. Heck, I have a yahoo account I havent used in ages that goes back nearly 10 years.
September 18th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Hey all - been in a real Back to the Future time warp for a few days (no electricity at all) - so I am behind on all things. Has Obama made a comment re this little ‘prank’?
Seriously I doubt he will - as I’ve not heard him apologize for the McCain smear - yet. Of course the radio news is repetitious and tended to only be ‘the economy is falling, the economy is falling.’ So I have no real clue as to what went on since Sunday.
I agree with the sad conclusion that if you have the vaulted (D) behind your name - you can get away with murder (My Bad, that was Kennedy, not Obama) - and this punk won’t get the 5 years he deserves.
As Obama won’t be called out for being the second largest recipient of Freddie/Fannie ‘donations’ - which just might color his ‘voting record’ into stronger regulations against them (and oh by the way, wasn’t one of his VP vetters also a former Fannie/Freddie CEO?!?) - but he’ll walk away -
You know as well as I that the deal with the phones was data mining - yet it is still one of the key screaming points for impeachment of Bush - and yet this happened and was posted on the Internet for all to see - and the outrage silence is deafening.
Boy is Obama the Candidate of Change - Nope no smears, no slimy ads, no lies, no distortions, and all his speechs and ads are simply about his vision of the issues. It really is change we can hope and believe in.
I do not believe at all for a second the Conservatives/Republicans should ever, ever descend into the same dirty Chicago Machine thug practices nor should the 527s - the truth will always be the best way - Obama’s lack of experience, his associates and voting record alone will keep the majority of Americans from voting for him.
I am simply hoping that 51% of America is no longer buying into the bs anymore.
September 18th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
What’s become crystal clear to me this election cycle is how much “newspeak” abounds in the MSM. Up is down, black is white, good is bad, bad is good. It’s truly frightening the lengths (or depths) to which they’ll go to smear Republicans in general, and Palin and McCain in particular. I would be even more scared if I didn’t get daily assurance from the “common folk” I come in contact with that we just aren’t buying it.
September 18th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Oh yes, and all this business about Palin being the bad guy because she supposedly used her Yahoo e-mail for government business–isn’t this what’s called “Blaming the Victim”?
September 18th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Note that Palin didn’t use her account “for Government business” but rather all the “accusations” being made are because she exchanged personal email via her Yahoo! account with a friend who also works for the Alaskan Government.
That’s what passes for “Republican Scandal” these days.
September 18th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2.....-e-mail-p/
NASHVILLE – The son of state Rep. Mike Kernell has been contacted by authorities in connection with a probe into the hacking of personal e-mail of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Kernell told The Tennessean.
Kernell, a Memphis Democrat, said his 20-year-old son David had been contacted by authorities investigating the hacking of Palin’s personal e-mail account, the newspaper reported on its Web site this afternoon.
The FBI and the Secret Service started a formal investigation Wednesday into the hacking, according to the Associated Press.
David Kernell is a student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
More details as they develop online and in Friday’s News Sentinel.
September 18th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Keep us posted, R2tP - I’m hoping that punk’s feet don’t touch the ground as he gets dragged off to the clink!
September 18th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
This may end up being a win-win for Palin……
The media sees that her Yahoo account was mainly for personal/family e-mails, the only thing they could “get” her on is using “gov” in her e-mail address. Well, she was the “Gov” so there….
The average person will see this as an invasion of her privacy, in particular since no “dirt” was found, only family photos and personal e-mail. And yanking private pictures of someone’s kids and posting them on the web is enough to get anyone mad….
And lastly, if it does turn out the perpetrator was the son of a Democrat Obama supporter……Oh My, it’ll make Dan Rather and the forged letters about Bush look like a trivial oversight…..
Way to go, Dems!
September 18th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Exeter wrote:
Arrogance of moral superiority may be all that we’ll have left.
Lott had every opportunity to leave Sodom & Gomorra but chose to stay! right up to the end… Where does one go, when the whole planet becomes a Sodom & Gomorra?
September 18th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
“….isn’t this what’s called “Blaming the Victim”?” & ““accusations” being made are because she exchanged personal email via her Yahoo!”
Yep dulcimergrl and BillK , unbelievable isn’t it? That’s all that you heard from the MSM yesterday.
“Hey all - been in a real Back to the Future time warp for a few days (no electricity at all)”
Hey wardmama……….Did you get attacked by Hurricane Ike also? Dang… take care.
September 18th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
This story is NOT a plus for the Obama Campaign. He must have lost his mind to be a party to this. This sets up McCain in the debates for saying “Senator, I’m perplexed, you dont want to listen to terrorist overseas who want to kill Americans for the “Invasion of Privacy” but you do want to read Sarah Palin’s private e-mail. Did I miss something here or what?!?” LMAO
September 18th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
The far, far left keep setting themselves up for this over and over. Seems all the right needs to do is to keep poking at the left, little jabs here and there, keep them steaming mad, the sheer audacity that their annoited one might NOT get elected, er, crowned the king of the universe, will have them seething to the point of making dumb and dumber mistakes like this. They simply can’t help it, after all, ask a Republican about something, they reply starting with “I think…”, ask a Democrat the same question, the reply starts with “I feel….”. The left simply don’t have the brains to keep it low key, and each time they take a small step backwards. Too bad.
September 18th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
I live in Florida. lots of hurricanes. I spent two weeks in Louisville Kentucky. Was without power for three days because of hurricane Ike. go figure.
September 18th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
“The disclosure Wednesday raises new questions about the propriety of the Palin administration’s use of nongovernment e-mail accounts to conduct state business.”
accusations which have apparently been found lacking in substance…..
now that her personal accounts have been hacked, secret service will tell her to use a more secure gov. account for sending ANY e-mail
next they will accuse her of using her more secure gov. accounts to conduct personal business.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:53 am
Sooo , the son of a ( D ) from Ten-o-see hacks into what you or I would call mail? Then spreads this as garbage to the world . Not so smart son of ( D ) . Test question: Is being a elitist moron inherited or taught? Moving on , I would break his fingers ( all of them ) and remove all basement privileges . Would you knowingly open a strangers mail to hang them with? Come On ! Yea baby it’s all about change and hope now .
September 19th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
I hope Sarah Palin can now change her personal e-mail availability to the press.