Lawmaker’s Son Charged For Hacking Palin’s E-mail

[DirtyFeetDesigns (heb1976)]

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/20...palin-s-e-mail

The son of a Democrat Tennessee legislator involved in Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has been indicted for hacking Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s personal electronic mail and posting the private information on a public web site.

The 20-year-old college student, son of Memphis state Representative Mike Kernell, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Knoxville for intentionally accessing without authorization the Alaska governor’s private e-mails. Not surprisingly, Papa Kernell, the chairman of Tennessee’s House Government Operation Committee, says he had absolutely nothing to do with the crime.

It turns out that the younger computer hack master Kernell, David, may also have connections to Obama campaign manager David Plouffe, a top Democratic strategist who incidentally accused the Clinton’s of widespread dirty politics during the primaries.

According to the indictment, David Kernell accessed Governor Palin’s account after answering a series of security questions that allowed him to reset the password. Then he made screenshots of Palin’s mail directory, mail content and other personal information. David Kernell then posted the information on a public web site.
The University of Tennessee economics major faces five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

[NellieRose]

The State of Alaska is busy tracking down all those e-mails via a query by the IT people to search for official state email address that sent, rec'd or cc'd mail with the 2 Yahoo accounts that they know of.

More than likely it will take until after the election to gather those e-mails but about 25 groups have filed to obtain the e-mails.

Is it right or legal to hack anyone's email? No.

Is it right or legal to conduct official business on non-official accounts so you don't have to track all your documents? No.

Sarah has some answering to do. A woman from Alaska that has a personal connection with Gov. Palin has been fighting in Court over these e-mails for some time now. Funny how it was simple enough for a kid to get it, although it was illegal.


ETA: This kid should be held to the law as the Gov. of Alaska should for breaking the law.