AP Refuses Secret Service Request for Palin's "Hacked" Emails

editor and Publisher ^ | Published: September 18, 2008 12:15 AM ET

[Perdogg]

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.

[DieHard the Hunter]

It was a silly request to begin with. The AP doesn’t need the emails because they probably commissioned the hack and they already have them.

[mewzilla]

Obama does not win elections, he eliminates his opponents.

That's the Chicago way...

[IncPen]

While I don’t think this was engineered by the Obama campaign, I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that the hackers were not Bush voters.

The media standing in the way of getting to the bottom of this— which every American can relate to on a visceral level— is going to go very badly for them

[elc]

Wikileaks does indeed appear to be having problems today. Interesting.

But Gawker is still up and running with all the screenshots.

[DieHard the Hunter]

ummm... nevermind. Mild dyslexia — anyway, that’s my excuse and I’m sticking with it!

[AndyJackson]

Does freedom of the press extend to undermining the security of those under secret service protection? We’ll see how that works out for them.

[Obadiah]

David Westin - Huge Clinton supporter and Dem

Rupert Murdoch - Self-declared Obama supporter

[cookcounty]

"Hackers broke into the Yahoo! e-mail account that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin used for official business as Alaska's governor'

....and the evidence that she used it for official business is.......?

Oh wait a minute, it isn't there...

AP = Axelrod Propaganda.

[jackv]

Yet everyone talking about this on the msm is more concerned with IF she was conducting business on a personal account.

Unbelievable.

[awake-n-angry]

Why does the Secret Service need the AP for copies of these e-mails. I would hope that the Secret Service has the resources to glean archives etc. I hope that the Secret Service has hackers better then their hackers.

[Verginius Rufus]

If the Obama campaign is somehow connected to this, it would be like Nixon and the Watergate break-in...not that the media would give it 1/10th the attention they gave to Watergate. At this point I'd say it's more likely to be one or more Obama supporters with no official connection to the campaign, but I wouldn't rule out the other possibility until we know more.

Gloria Allred was on Greta's show last night trying to make it into a scandal for Palin--suggesting that she was using the personal e-mail account for government business in an effort to shield e-mails from any subpoena that might be issued for e-mails. Pond scum.

[mewzilla]

The Murdochs are also businessmen, who should know full well that this sorta thing can be very bad for business...

[mewzilla]

If the Obama campaign is somehow connected to this, it would be like Nixon and the Watergate break-in....

And then there's the Taheri thing....

Obama Can’t Be Trusted on National Defense

....which, to my mind anyway, is an even bigger deal.

[AndyJackson]

They might want to read TITLE 18. CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURECHAPTER 119--WIRE AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS INTERCEPTION AND INTERCEPTION OF ORAL COMMUNICATIONS

Among other things:

Any person who--
(c) intentionally discloses, or endeavors to disclose, to any other person the contents of any wire, oral, or electronic communication, knowing or having reason to know that the information was obtained through the interception of a wire, oral, or electronic communication in violation of this subsection;
(d) intentionally uses, or endeavors to use, the contents of any wire, oral, or electronic communication, knowing or having reason to know that the information was obtained through the interception of a wire, oral, or electronic communication in violation of this subsection; or
(e) (i) intentionally discloses, or endeavors to disclose, to any other person the contents of any wire, oral, or electronic communication, intercepted by means authorized by sections 2511(2)(a)(ii), 2511(2)(b)-(c), 2511(2)(e), 2516, and 2518 of this chapter, (ii) knowing or having reason to know that the information was obtained through the interception of such a communication in connection with a criminal investigation, (iii) having obtained or received the information in connection with a criminal investigation, and (iv) with intent to improperly obstruct, impede, or interfere with a duly authorized criminal investigation,
shall be punished as provided in subsection (4) or shall be subject to suit as provided in subsection (5).

A whole bunch of folks could go down on this one.

[Mr Rogers]

Sounds reasonable. After all, the NYT has successfully argued it extends to publishing Top Secret information.

[Guenevere]

bttt

[Sigurdrifta]

Perhaps the e-mail thing was done to distract from the Taheri thing?

[mwl8787]

The Secret Service is run out of Treasury and Justice.

Subpoena the emails.

This is outrageous.

[Dawn531]

I just read that article...somehow it segued from AP refusal to an anti-Palin attack article.

[Toadman]

Amazing.  The story is an AP STORY.  All it does is mention how the emails were inconsequential and how the bigger picture is about a Gov using private email for guvment correspondence.

 

These people are lower than a snake's belly in a wagon rut.  I wish I had the knowhow to bust BO's and Plug's email because it would be fun to watch the contrast in reaction of the scum stream media.  Bill O'Reilly had a great example.  He showed examples of how the "View" treated McCain (hostile) and BO (fawning, involuntary orgasms).

 

If O'Bidens' emails were posted it would be 24/7 coverage.