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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."
Or she'll just claim the emails say the exact opposite of what they actually say, just like she did with the troopergate report.
Before he was arrested, he posted that he was afraid and he basically bailed out. That's why he didn't back up the e-mails.
Now he's going to be seen the some cowering, harmless punk kid who half-wittedly exposed the blatant stupidity of Sarah Palin and the weaknesses of Yahoo and similar mail services.
But do you think that if he had not gained access to her emails, this decision would have been made? Regardless if he backed out, this still resulted in her being forced to keep her yahoo emails. This could come back to bite her if she doesn't remove those emails first.
I believe there was already an effort underway by some Alaskans to gain access to the emails in the commercial accounts that Palin and her staff were using. The account that got hacked was actually her personal Yahoo account, not one of the ones normally used for official business.
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Not that I'm for the ditz, but isn't everyone entitled to their privacy? Even online.
As in, being free to delete whatever non-work emails come to you.
The problem is that she was using a commercial account for state business, which circumvents the security and accountability of using official state email services. She essentially made state business subject to Yahoo's terms of service rather than the laws of Alaska. Her official email is supposed to be public record, but the state can't access or archive her commercial account.
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
Personal email accounts called gov.palin@yahoo.com and where the subjects clearly implied she was talking business?
Sorry, I don't believe for a second they were personal.
gov.palin@yahoo.com was her personal use account. gov.sarah@yahoo.com was the one that she was using for official state business.
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Husband children and close aides.
;)
Selective reading clearly shows someone's bias...or lack of comprehension.
>Did you know about Ayers?
I knew about Ayers when he was pallin' around with Nancy Reagan, before the Reaganite Annenberg gave him $50 million. That was in the early 90s.
I laughed a lot when his name came up, because I already know he had as many Republican connections as Democrat.
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No, you are totally wrong. Your analogy is, frankly, total shit. When she is conducting buisiness relevant to her job, she is not some average citizen, she has obligations that come with her office to ensure that all official buisiness and communication is properly archived, which is why the taxpayers of Alaska fund an email system for her to use that has those archival functions built into it. You utterly fucking fail at being worth even the sum of your constituent organic molecules if you think it is ok for her to bypass the law. Without rule of law, there is only tyranny. Or maybe that is what you're after.
The world you experience is only a close approximation of reality.
Actually, they found email related to official buisiness on her yahoo account. Sorry, I know I know, reality has a well known liberal bias.
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