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Source of Sanford e-mails found? [hacked e-mail accounts]
The New York Times / The State, Columbia, SC ^ | 2009-06-27

Posted on 06/26/2009 9:51:53 PM PDT by rabscuttle385

Argentine man said to have sent copies of messages to S.C. newspaper.

NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The mystery of who revealed Gov. Mark Sanford’s e-mail messages might finally be solved.

A business associate of Sanford’s Argentine mistress said Friday that private messages between the lovers had been sent anonymously to The State newspaper in December by an Argentine man the mistress briefly dated.

The associate, who asked not to be identified, is a Buenos Aires television executive involved in hiring the woman, whom he identified as Maria Belen Chapur, a producer at the television network America from 2001-02.

Last December, the executive said, Chapur was dating a young Argentine a few months after her affair with Sanford began. The executive, who has direct knowledge of the situation, said the man happened to see the e-mails between Sanford and Chapur and hacked into her e-mail account to see the rest.

Infuriated, the man sent the messages to The State.

(Excerpt) Read more at thestate.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: gopimplosion; marksanford; sanford
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1 posted on 06/26/2009 9:51:53 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
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To: rabscuttle385

http://www.thestate.com/803/story/843301.html


2 posted on 06/26/2009 9:52:12 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: rabscuttle385

Convenient. Foreign national. Out of jurisdiction.

Keep looking. It’s domestic and politically motivated, imho.


3 posted on 06/26/2009 9:53:56 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: rabscuttle385

I call BS. It was far more likely a domestic variety hacker, of the demonrat persuasion.


4 posted on 06/26/2009 9:54:21 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

What makes you so sure it’s one of the Rats? Sanford stirred up the RINO hornet nest by opposing the Obama-Pelosi-Reid porkulus.


5 posted on 06/26/2009 9:56:49 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: pissant

We’ve just witnessed an object lesson in what happens when a RINO goes off the plantation.

I don’t even want to think about what they’ve got on Pandsey.


6 posted on 06/26/2009 9:57:20 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: pissant

At least he didn’t just happen to have a cell phone scanner and just happen to have a tape recorder running and just happen to overheard compromising information on a republican politician while he just happened to be out for a drive with his old lady...


7 posted on 06/26/2009 9:57:50 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 158 of our national holiday from reality.)
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To: null and void

Oops. Hate it when that happens.


8 posted on 06/26/2009 9:59:58 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: pissant

of the spousal persuasion


10 posted on 06/26/2009 10:03:49 PM PDT by RDTF ("I'm pretty sure this is a 2 man job once the shooting starts")
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To: Abbeville Conservative

Snake though he may be, there’s more going on here than Sanford’s stupid affair.


11 posted on 06/26/2009 10:05:14 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

It’s domestic alright, and scorned wife motivated.

Nothing else makes sense.


12 posted on 06/26/2009 10:05:20 PM PDT by free me (Sarah Palin 2012!)
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To: Abbeville Conservative

Nuts.


13 posted on 06/26/2009 10:07:34 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: free me
Scorned wife would make sense, if both The State and The New York Times hadn't both sat on it for six months.

December. Hmmm, what was happening then? When did Sanford begin expressing resistance to strings attached to federal stimulus?

The wife knew in January, if the official account is to be believed. She was a very good friend of Hillary Clinton's in college, did you know that?

15 posted on 06/26/2009 10:10:19 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: free me

If Sandy did’t cheat on his wife and send the e-mails there wouldn’t be anything to publish.

What Sanford did to his wife and 4 sons is reprehensible


16 posted on 06/26/2009 10:13:25 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
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To: RegulatorCountry

I doubt seriously that it was hacked. The state email service is run by a IT department, which likely has six to ten folks who handle the governor, the state senators and the state representatives email accounts. It takes one minute to open and capture the emails you need. Any member of the IT department could have done this....with no hacking. I’m pretty sure that both parties have an inside guy within the group and they get favors back on all of the emails they capture. If I were a state representative...the last place that I’d trust my digital chat...on the state-run system.


17 posted on 06/26/2009 10:13:47 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: RegulatorCountry
Keep looking. It’s domestic and politically motivated, imho.I'm not buying this either.
18 posted on 06/26/2009 10:16:42 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: RegulatorCountry

I mean I agree with you.


19 posted on 06/26/2009 10:17:42 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Abbeville Conservative

Sanford had the ear of the fiscal conservative wing and was getting good traction as a result of opposition to stimulus. He was beginning to tack rightward to appeal to social conservatives, too. Sounds like Presidential ambition to me, and some clearly thought he was Presidential material.

The Sanford I’d seen was not the Sanford we saw babbling his fool head off last Wednesday.

It’s all been rendered moot now, though. Between the moral failing putting off social conservatives, and the seeming dereliction of duty combined with junketing to meet his Argentine girlfriend on SC’s dime offending fiscal conservatives, he’s done.

This has caused damage to conservatives in general, and Republicans in particular. He’ll be lucky to remain in the Governorship to the end of his term.

And, this is coming from someone who vehemently defended the man, until he couldn’t be defended anymore.

That doesn’t change the distinct odor emanating from the whole episode, though. It all seems rather orchestrated. Laws have been broken.


20 posted on 06/26/2009 10:17:49 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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