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Court Rules That Palin Must Save Yahoo Emails
quarterbuck writes "An Anchorage judge has ruled that Governor Sarah Palin must save her emails, as they were apparently used for state business. Last week a Tennessee man was arrested over hacking one of her Yahoo email accounts. The Washington Post also reports that Sarah Palin, her husband, and officials had set up email accounts known only to each other."
I profoundly dislike Palin. The thought of her being one elderly heartbeat from the Presidency fills me with horror.
But she has a right to privacy. (As we all do.) Hacking into her private email on a fishing expedition for possible misdeeds is simply wrong.
And in any case, the information that's come to light is not all that important. Her legal penalties will be trivial, her political penalties nonexistent. Nothing north going to jail to bring to light.
He had no effect on this decision. If he had, there would be examples of official emails from her account at yahoo. However there aren't any. All this punk managed to do was violate her privacy and demonstrate what low ethics he has, presumably, learned from his father.
All this decision does is say, "Don't delete your external email." It doesn't say that any of it is actually official email that is subject to FOIA. It just says hold on to it in case it is. What will eventually be found, I think, is that she did exactly what the law required of her: separate her private and political email from her official email and keep it off publicly funded systems.
Given that numerous individuals -- who have enough ill will towards her that they were willing to break the law in order to influence the election process -- did not find a single example to present makes it seem likely that nothing wrong was done here.
Yes, the law obviously has a liberal bias, otherwise why would all these conservative douchebags be breaking it all the time?
The world you experience is only a close approximation of reality.
She isn't fit to run a box of dead turtles.
The world you experience is only a close approximation of reality.
Then WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU POSTING ON SLASHDOT, LIAR?!
If McCain can't sit at a desk to use a computer, then he should fucking STAND to do it instead!
Being a POW is no excuse. Unless he's a damn quadraplegic, I have no sympathy! And if he's that damn disabled, he's unfit to run for President in the first place!
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
"He should be prosecuted under relevant laws for what he did. However, he unwittingly uncovered other illegal activity.
For that reason he is a reluctant hero (which I agree that "hero" was probably not the best word to use).
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violating the privacy of a citizen of the united states is much worse than the crime of using a hotmail account to conduct business.
Honestly, this entire campaign scares me. It's the closet the US has gotten to a communist dictator and the average, moronic citizen doesn't seem to care.
"Quit being a partisan asshole! He would have been exactly equally "reluctantly heroic" if he'd done the same thing to Biden."
No, they would have been called racist.
I am not a partisan asshole, It just seems like nobody cares about the trashing of personal privacy and rights.
Hell, with current state of the liberally controlled media, hitler could run and still be made out to be the "good guy".