Posted on 09/24/2008 7:10:42 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
A Grand Jury in Chattanooga on Tuesday morning heard testimony into the alleged hacking of the personal e-mail of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Three young college-age people declined to comment as they entered the Federal Courthouse around 9 a.m.
Security officers notified members of the media at 10:30 a.m. that the trio had exited the courthouse by another door.
The three, including two males and a female, are apparently friends of a University of Tennessee student who is under investigation for the hacking. David Kernell is a UT student who is the son of a Democratic state legislator from Memphis.
He and the three students attend college at the main campus in Knoxville, but a prosecutor from Knoxville was sent to Chattanooga to handle the case here.
An indictment in the case was not included in the first batch made public early Tuesday afternoon. Indictments are sometimes not made public for several days or weeks.
Friends of Kernell earlier said they were interviewed ahd were due to testify about the case in Chattanooga this week.
The hacker reportedly got into the Palin Yahoo e-mail account by guessing certain password information correctly, including the fact that she met her husband in high school.
The McCain/Palin campaign called the hacking "a shocking invasion of the Governor's privacy and a violation of law."
“ALLEGED” hacking....not only did he hack her email, he posted ALL of her private information on the world wide web....for all to see.
I hope he has to tell who put him up to it and gets some jail time for doing it!
What he did took no brains - he's just a scam artist.
Your link was from “Tuesday, September 23, 2008 @ 2:37:16 PM”
Yep, that would be yesterday.
In the world of the news media, everything is “ALLEGED” until someone is convicted in a court of law.
It happens over and over again, so I figure it’s part of the MSM template or style book, as far as how to report something. Yes we know her e-mail was hacked because we know the results were all over the internet. But legally, this kid hasn’t had a day in court yet, thus, everything is “alleged”, or not proven in a court.
This is actually a better article, and the one I was looking for myself last night. The post you linked to yesterday gave the false impression that there was no longer any chance that an indictment was returned. This article correctly states that none was included in the first BATCH, but that it doesn’t mean there was NONE.
As such, I don’t see any problem with this article being posted. Not sure if you were trying to make the case that it was already “announced” here, but that’s what I assume.
This is TN...
SDan Fran or Chicago might give him a slap on the wrist and a medal...
Not here...
I hope...
I didn’t say that there was anything wrong with this article. I didn’t even point out that it was one of many duplicates posted yesterday.
All I did was post a link to an UPDATED thread from yesterday that still resides in the Breaking News sidebar.
Grand jury testimony is suppose to be secret. I don’t expect much news on this for awhile. I say just let the process move forward without comment.
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