Posted on 09/18/2008 2:25:54 PM PDT by mathprof
The Tennessean reports what blogs have been buzzing about all day:
The son of state Rep. Mike Kernell has been contacted by authorities in connection with a probe into the hacking of the personal e-mail of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Kernell confirmed on Thursday.
Kernell, a Memphis Democrat, said his 20-year-old son David had been contacted by authorities investigating the hacking of Palin’s personal email account.
AdvertisementThe FBI and the Secret Service started a formal investigation on Wednesday into the hacking.
David Kernell is a student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Mike Kernell said he spoke to his son on Thursday, as he does on a regular basis.
Kernell otherwise declined to comment, or discuss his son’s whereabouts and whether he was in custody.
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
In Chicago?
This could get VERY interesting.
So when the FBI and Secret Service produce tangible evidence, what will the ball-less, compassionate conservatives in the Bush Administration do with it?
Son’s computer at bottom of their family backyard pool?
Not a damn thing.
Sentencing should be either the death penalty or 5 years without the internet./sarc. But I hope the feds get him good to set an example that this will NOT be tolerated.
But, can you IMAGINE if one of ours did this to Obambi? It would be worth it just to watch Olbermanniac sputter and drool...
“The Associated Press is still not cooperating with the feds. But it has published a new story about Ramuglia’s cooperation — and has recycled the story behind the hacking as an “original” report.”
Somehow I thought that “not cooperating with the Secret Service” was not an option. Silly me.
I think some of you are missing something here.
His father has links to the Obama campaign.
I want to know whether the Obama Campaign has any fingerprints on this.
That’s way tacky. You should hit the abuse button on yourself and get it self-deleted before someone else does it.
He seems eager to let everyone know about this. I guess it's a badge of honor for him and figures it'll help him in his reelection.
(I just did. Guess the Mod doesn’t mind it)
And how active is he on the MoveOn, Kos, and DU sites? Inquiring minds want to know.
what has happened to FR?....
The son of the head of Obama’s campaign in Tennessee, if I’m not mistaken.
Very interesting.
You need to slap your own hand!!! Shame on you.
if they find a certified letter from osama obama ordering the kid to hack into the email account, the Bush admin would still not think it was good enough evidence.
“Refused to discuss his son’s whereabouts” other than to say it is somewhere up sh&t creek
His Father I believe is a State Chairman for “Tennessee for Obama”.
McCain needs to get off his ass and make this a Dan Rather Scandal pronto.
sorry to all, i have requested that my post be removed. i apologize.
So when the FBI and Secret Service produce tangible evidence, what will the ball-less, compassionate conservatives in the Bush Administration do with it?Eunuchs. Political eunuchs. Karl Eunuch Rove -- even though he's nominally hung-up his empty cod-piece -- will lead the surrender-charge to a Grand Accommodation, as the other day he called on "both sides" to end their "negative ads". (Kind of like Obummer calling on "both sides" to end the Soviet invasion of Georgia.)
The Eunuchs of the GOP could teach the French a thing or two about surrender.
Democrat talking point has no proof:
The break-in of Palin’s private account is especially significant because Palin sometimes uses non-government e-mail to conduct state business. Previously disclosed e-mails indicate her administration embraced Yahoo accounts as an alternative to government e-mail, which could possibly be released to the public under Alaska’s Open Records Act.
Did you learn from it? If so, you’re forgiven.
I didn’t -— just don’t hit abuse. But I will call something out.
That kid is exactly how God made him, presumably for a damn good reason that I don’t know. Mocking God is not wise.
Yes a state chair for the Tennessee for Obama campaign.
A great opening for the GOP
Good deal!
Even if there were no direct orders, Obama has certainly encouraged this sort of activity "I WANT YOU TO GET IN THEIR FACE FOR ME!"
yes i did. i will be in the woodshed for a while. excuse me for a moment or two.
The owners/admins of these sights should be charged with several crimes themselves as well as ABC radio which has commented on the contents in the emails. It is a crime to posses known stolen information just as much as it is a crime to posses child-porn. I really think in a climate of the growing crime of ID theft - Heads should roll.
This is the modern equivalent of the Watergate break ins.
Don’t know what you did, but you handled the deletion graciously. Good for you.
“His Father I believe is a State Chairman for “Tennessee for Obama””
YAHOO GATE!
Break in, just like Watergate, cyber version!
Yeah, I noticed this too. I would not think that one would want to brag that their kid had violated federal law and was being investigated by the FBI. But what do I know...
WHAT did Obama know, and WHEN did he know it?
— lates
— jrawk
Better for him to say it before it is confirmed by other means.
In retrospect, taking into account others feelings, I felt ignorant.
Lucky for me, FR has the compassion to forgive.
The post needs to be removed.
they’ll draw it out so that the McCain-Palin admin can take care of it...;)
The father has a blog named “Left Wing Cracker.”
Another self-loathing Caucasian.
Why do people always post that stupid question when one poster posts something that later gets deleted?
Sounds kinky...who’s going with you? LOLOLOL
As we so often hear in NC from the liberal parents of crooks, drug dealers and murderers, “but he is a good boy”
I must admit a smile comes across my face when i think of this liberal puke surrounded by Secret service agents and being given the choice of 20 years in Federal pound me in the ___prison or rolling over on the Obama campaign manager that put him up to this.
Now Kernell can blame his kid’s ruined life (Whether there are any actual consequences or not)and future failures on the Bush administration and the McCain campaign.
:) well, since i live in cincinnati, i have a heck of a lot of wood and downed trees to keep me company. (wait, that didn’t come out right -aaargh!)
You mean his father?
You’re truly digging yourself in deeper and deeper and OMG now I’ve gone and done it. Your contagious!!!!
Obama campaign activist hacks email system.
"OK, which one of us is going away for a long time?"
Good thing the SS is handling this and not the FBI. SS does not play.
Now we know why the Liberals get so up in arms over defining “domestic terrorists”.
Sending this guy to Gitmo would certainly put a damper on their future campaign activities.
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