Hackers break into Sarah Palin's e-mail account

MyWay ^ | Sept 17, 2008 | Ted Bridis

[CurlyDave]

WASHINGTON (AP) - 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...

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....

[CurlyDave]

I am amazed. How can the AP not comply with a Secret Service request?

Isn't jail the usual next step?

[airedale]

Because they are part of the news media and they don’t think they have to. If the Secret Service wanted them from AP they’d need a court order and then the AP would only give them the material after a long long court fight. That’s SOP for the media when it affects Republicans adversely. Just guessing if the hacked e-mail account had been Barack’s AP would have turned the material over willingly and be beating the Secret Service up for not getting to them quicker and not having broken the case already. They’d also be hiring outside consultants to find out who did the deed so they could turn them in.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

It’s no surprise to anyone, but the list of this kind of abusive dirty tricks that will be used against McCain and Palin will be very long in the next 50 days - and the list that will be attempted against Obama will be...the sound of one hand clapping.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Dude, there are a half-dozen threads on this already.

[Bush Revolution]

Okay, I'm being a Dem...My emotions are overcoming me right now. Things like this will only fire up McCain's supporters even more, America is not Chicago.

Another thing, the Spanish ad linking McCain to Rush is SUCH A LIE. Any reader here knows the McCain/Rush relationship and it's not exactly loving. The fact that they imply that John was against immigrants (I didn’t support the amnesty bill by the way) is way beyond dishonest.

It's really on now, if I'm this fired up, I know I'm not alone.

[Issaquahking]

Zerobama and the media heads are exploding about now. Nothing was gained by a massive invasion of privacy. "The Cuda", by being who she is, impales another!

[John Valentine]

Those aren’t leaked e-mails. They are STOLEN e-mails.

Big difference.

[CurlyDave]

Dude, there are a half-dozen threads on this already.

I searched before I posted, and I just searched again.

There are no other threads with this exact title. One of the FR rules is that articles must be posted with the exact title as published, and for good reason.

[BooksForTheRight.com]

Not hackers. Democrat nutjobs just doing their part for the cause.

[mware]

there is updated information in this article.

AP does not respond to request of Secret Service/FBI for assisstance in criminal investigation.

[gaggs]

I guess this explains why Obama went after McCain about not using email.

[Allegra]

AP does not respond to request of Secret Service/FBI for assisstance in criminal investigation.

If Obama's or Biden's e-mail accounts had been hacked into, AP wouldn't even have to be asked. They'd be all over it.

[scrabblehack]

insiders at yahoo, then?

[DaveyB]

Not only did the AP not comply, but they are complicit in disseminating stolen goods. Somebody at the AP should find themselves meditating in a federal facility. By releasing only the "tasty bits" they put private emails before the public in such a way that the only way to defend oneself against the scandalous accusation is by further intrusion into privacy.

The AP may be engaging in criminal behavior - much like possession and distribution of some other illegal material like child porn.