[mass55th]

"I smell blackmail; NOT a prank."

Exactly. Why would you hang on to sexually explicit IM's for three years if it was only a prank to begin with? And as far as believing that the IM's ended up in the hands of "enemy political operatives" by mistake, all I've got to say is: "I might have been born at night, but it wasn't last night."

[A Citizen Reporter]

"Why would you hang on to sexually explicit IM's for three years if it was only a prank to begin with?"

I suspect that the chain of custody is going to be very interesting.