Son of Democratic Politician Indicted for Hacking Palin’s E-mail

Well, it’s good to see that some law enforcement agencies are still doing their job and not attempting to bypass investigations prior to the election.
How many states is it that they have now uncovered voter registration fraud by ACORN?

Don’t worry. He can work on the Congressional web site from prison. I hear they need talent over there.

I wonder if he thinks it was worth it now?!

Sarah Palin is the only good thing to come out of this race.
I hope they through the book at the 20 year old Democratic hack who broke into her private e-mail account.

just 2 years ago unemployment was at 4.5%, gas was $2.12 a gallon, virtually no inflation, low interest, the stock market climbing………Then the Democrats took control of Congress, Barney Frank took over the banking committee.. what a MESS they have made in just 2 years, adn the Media is silent

I bet you Obama if he got the chance to free this guy he will first pardon.!Thanks is not going to have that chance.Freedom Ring !No to comunsim Socialism.

For further investigation, I hope the Feds start monitoring this kid’s bank account. He probably has a hefty donation coming his way for taking one for the team.

Arrest ANYONE thats disagrees with Obama
You wtote:
“just 2 years ago unemployment was at 4.5%, gas was $2.12 a gallon, virtually no inflation, low interest, the stock market climbing………Then the Democrats took control of Congress, Barney Frank took over the banking committee.. what a MESS they have made in just 2 years, adn the Media is silent”
YOU CALLING MCCAIN A LIAR ?
REMEBER HE HAS BEEN WARNING PEOPLE THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN FOR YEARS RIGHT ?LOL

todd and sarah palin, and that radical notion of alaska ceceding from the union?
so Jake, why is there absolutely no coverage on this when Palin is callin in fire on herself with the ayers stuff?

Really? The feds prosecute cracking into someone’s Yahoo! account? How ludicrous. How many other examples are there of this kind of prosecution? I’m going to go out on a limb and say zero.
Hopefully Palin didn’t delete all the emails in her account. That might constitute obstruction of justice. And I guess those emails are discoverable too. Can’t wait for this case to go forward.

becky
“Kids will be kids.. The kids probably thought he was doing the country a favor..”
I think he was !

Don’t worry; after Nov 4, when Palin is banished back to Alaska…This kid will get off with Community Service at worst…If only the law was as diligent towards fer and Todd’s investigation as they were to this kid…Apparently if the person isn’t above the law, feds move quick. When it’s the GOP, there is a mysterious delay. In due time kiddies!

becky:
First, Obama is not capable of giving him a pardon.
Secondly, I don’t know if he was under the misguided notion that he was doing the country a favor, but I’m sure he thought he was doing the Obama campaign a favor. He was found to have David Plouffe’s Obama recruitment video on his computer that was later scrubbed.

Andrew Sullivan:
If, like me, you’re trying to absorb what has happened to John McCain in this campaign, and wonder whether you were wrong about him for all those years, or simply hadn’t examined him closely enough, read the much-talked-about Tim Dickinson piece in Rolling Stone. It’s about as brutal as any profile I’ve ever read. But it also has many critical figures on the record, and carries with it a real whiff of truth and insight. The character Dickinson describes makes sense of both McCains – the contrite rogue committed to country and the preening, reckless narcissist who gave us Britney Spears ads and the farce of Sarah Palin. Some of his fellow Vietnam vets are the toughest on him. John Dramesi was an Air Force lieutenant colonel who was imprisoned and tortured in Vietnam and a peer of McCain’s.
Dramesi attempted daring escapes twice and was brutally tortured and never cracked under the pressure. McCain himself called Dramesi “one of the toughest guys I’ve ever met.” Dramesi also went on to become chief war planner for U.S. Air Forces in Europe and commander of a wing of the Strategic Air Command. I’m not sure how you get to be a bigger hero than that but like most real heroes and unlike McCain, Dramesi didn’t spend his life writing five memoirs commemmorating his own heroism or running every single political campaign partly on the basis of being a POW. And here’s what Dramesi now says about McCain:
“McCain says his life changed while he was in Vietnam, and he is now a different man. But he’s still the undisciplined, spoiled brat that he was when he went in.”
I would have dismissed that as bitterness six weeks ago. No longer. Go read the whole essay. Trust me. It’s eye-opening.

SandyB
Palin shouldnt have been doing Government buisness on a yahoo account!
Nothing else needs to be said!
Free the kid and let the Feds get real criminals.. (points finger to Palin)

New FL Poll Obama 52 mccain 45

If you will recall, they did not find any government business in her Yahoo emails.
That’s like saying the Democratic Party should not have had confidential Democratic National Committee information in their headquarters at the Watergate building when the paid burglars broke in on behalf of the Nixon campaign.
The hacker is the criminal here, not Palin.

SandyB
They did so find government emails on Palins yahoo account!

I heard a specialist say the other day that if Obama wins this election that Bush and his Administration needs to let Obama and his team into the Whitehouse on November 6th to start getting Obama’s economy plan up and going because the US will not survive if we wait.
It gave me some relief to hear this person say this.
I think he should also. I feel that we the American People should demand that this is done.

I’d like to know if Palin will come under fire for conducting state business on her personal e-mail. Which is against the law in Alaska. And I agree with the poster. If this is this father’s fault then Palin’s at fault for her daughter being knocked up. Since I see nothing to suggest this father told this kid to do this, what the father does doesn’t apply here really.

I must have missed the news broadcast you were watching.
All of the reports I heard said there was nothing but personal emails, photos, phone numbers, etc. in the emails on her Yahoo account.
That’s why the hacker said he was so disappointed after he finished. He was hoping to find something that would discredit Palin, but he found nothing.
Could you please provide me the source of your information?

So Obama cronie.. I mean James. You think it’s okay to break into someone’s email account? Or is it only okay if it’s someone you don’t agree with? Personally I think the “kid” should be put in jail for five years because he’s a hacker who broke the law. And, unlike you, I believe if he had broke into Obama’s or Biden’s email account he should still be punished. To me it doesn’t matter whose account it was. It just shows how Obama supporters think. Instead of equal justice for all, they think that justice should only be for who is on their side.

Interesting conversation. Its okay if you break the law because I don’t like Sarah Palin? Apparently, as long as you agree with ideology of the perpetrator its okay to break the law. . .like Watergate? Where have the values of the American people gone? This blind following, disallowing criminal activity is dangerous.

Interesting conversation. Its okay if you break the law because I don’t like Sarah Palin? Apparently, as long as you agree with ideology of the perpetrator its okay to break the law. . .like Watergate? Where have the values of the American people gone? This blind following, disallowing criminal activity is dangerous.

this young man and sarah palin’ daughter
are just like many other teenagers in this country.
and they will have to deal with it.
but the real issue we should not forget.
george bush and his crew over the last eight years have messed this country up.
all any of us can wait for is to see the back side of bush.
after seeing mccain and bush, hugging,
mccain walking lock step with bush and his failed policies
no way will we turn around and see mccain wavying from the white house steps.
“you can’t call yourself a mavrick, when all you have ever been is a sidekick”-bob casey referring to john mccain and george bush’ relationship.
mccain has to answer for george bushes failed policies.
why dosen’t john mccain have anything new to say about the economy?
because george bush has already said it for him
noway, no how, no mccain.-hrc

Jake Tapper you did not have to bring this up. It is more bad press for the Obama campaign.

This is just the tip of the iceberg for Democratic operatives.
I notice that ABC’s Brian Ross finally has an investigative report on the ACORN/PROJECT VOTE voter registration fraud occuring in many swing states this election.
Of course the report failed to mention the lengthy ties that Obama has to both of these organizations. Or that Obama’s campaign contributed $800,000 to ACORN during this election.

Hopefully he got paid handsomely by the Obama campaign.

This is so racist on the part of ABC.

1. Whether you like it or not, what he did was not a “crime”. The indictment is purely because of who Palin is, not because there is a law against what was done.
2. Email and cell phones are considered to be inherently not private. If you are using a government system, the story is a little different but Yahoo mail is absolutely not private.
3. The trick used to reset the password is a very easy one. Doesn’t it bother you in the least that she was so lax in her security that she not only used public email for private state business and then didn’t bother to protect the account better? The kid did this in one night. So we’re supposed to trust her with national security?

So, James et al., are you posting in the middle of the morning from your work computer?
Governor Palin was conducting personal business, thus the hacker’s disappointment, on her personal computer–where it should be unlike your p.c. usage at work.

No I am not… I am a 50 years old white woman voting for Obama. I truly believe that his policies are what will be good for myself, my family and the People of the United States.

delusional
I think Becky is great very smart!

“Governor Palin was conducting personal business”
While Ms. Palin took office promising a more open government, her administration has battled to keep information secret. Her inner circle discussed the benefit of using private e-mail addresses. An assistant told her it appeared that such e-mail messages sent to a private address on a “personal device” like a BlackBerry “would be confidential and not subject to subpoena.”
Ms. Palin and aides use their private e-mail addresses for state business. A campaign spokesman said the governor copied e-mail messages to her state account “when there was significant state business.”

Jake didn’t report on the voter fraud raid of ACORN in Nevada yesterday

andycanuck
Palin was using a privateemail account to skirt the law and she got skirted!
According to the Guardian, who has looked at the Wikileaks data, among the emails in Palin’s account were several from addresses belonging to her aides, including a draft letter to California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a discussion of nominations to the state court of appeals, and several bearing “DPS”, the acronym for the Alaska Department of Public Safety.
DPS supervises the Alaska state troopers. Could the e-mails in question be relevant to the brewing ethics storm over Palin’s push to sack her former brother-in-law from the force?
The contact list included also holds accounts for other official representative’s private email accounts, including those of Alaska’s Kris Perry and Sharon Leighow.
I can use this comptuer however i want so i dont get what is your point ?

arrest…this mess didn’t happen in 2 years….McCain pushed for deregulation along with Libermann and all his Reps.
They caused the issue, plus Bush veting any way to stop it…

I think when mccain said “that one” in ref. to obama last night, he was having a senior moment, he forgot obama’ name.

delusional
“Let me guess…you are white and 50 just like Becky…and voting for Obama”
Why does it matter ? how old or what color my skin is ?
Yes I am voting Obama.
Im into solutions not smeers for my candidates!

Typical…they are grabbing at ANYTHING right now. The Ayers thing is guilt by association just like Wright…they have nothing else.
You can see by the debates last night when McCain called Obama “that one” that is is elitist and thinks Obama is scum…he couldn’t even shake his hand when McCain’s wife came out to greet them. He shoved Cindy between them….real pleasant guy…

Please stop playing the “race” card.
The email hacker is white.

“…anyone who brings up ACORN is a racist…”
So I guess it’s okay to illegally register tens of thousands of people to vote who do not even exist, but no one should say anything about it because of “race?”
This is really getting a little old.

Mack:
Haven’t you heard?
He is now “that one.”

typical voter,
there are SO many differences between mccain and obama, there is no need to deal with the race thing.
I am black also and i respectfully suggest that you and your black friends,
look a little deeper than skin color.
the differences for us the voters, between obama and mccain-and the direction they will take this country, are more important than skin color.
if the reps. can take this issue and TRY, at this 25th hour, to make something of it. it will go no where.
it will be seen as yet another desperate
act at trying to distract us from his lack of solving the issues that concern me, you, and your black friends.
don’t get distracted-
many will say they don’t understand the “change” obama is talking about.
some say obama has “nothing”
but the one thing I can see is
mccain really has “nothing” either
and will only give us more of what george bush has been giving us.
and we do not need that.
bush (with the support of john mccain)
has put us so deep in the hole, there is no where to go except up.
good bye george bush.
noway, no how, no mccain.

In a cheap shot can i say has anyone seen the newsweek cover of sarah palin ?
She has a mustache!! The pic isnt doctored its just a big mustache!
Wax Baby Wax
Wax Baby Wax

to typical voter
from a black voter
this time around, the issues that face this country are bigger than skin color.
because most of us are in the same bowl.
black, white,red,yellow,brown.
george bush with the support of john mccain- is causing us all to see the green disappear.
while many are losing their homes,
john mccain has 13,
don’t help john mccain move into the last house you can lay claim to.
no way, no how, no mccain

Are Biden’s Gaffes Contagious?

James:
ABC actually has an investigative report on ACORN and all of the voter registration fraud occurring during this election on their website as we blog.

Funny comment on FOX NEWS these debates show that we jurnolists cant spin this campaign McCain had to make Obama look bad and he didnt!
Is that FOX WAVING THE WHITE FLAG ?? LOL

Ryan C
McCain campaign 100% Negative
Obama campaign 33% Negative
From CNN and FOX NEWS

James,
Its frankly stunning.
I really get the feeling FoxNews is trying to distance themselves from the Republican party and remake themselves in a more populist image.
O’Reilly has been really working on that in the last few months.

Hey..did you read the news?
ACORN just registered the Dallas Cowboys to vote in Nevada.
ACORN=OBAMA frauds

“Ryan C
McCain campaign 100% Negative
Obama campaign 33% Negative
From CNN and FOX NEWS”
I live in a swing state and I can say that I have only seen one positive ad from Obama on TV. Every ad that has played on the radio has been an attack ad. The few ads that I have seen or heard from McCain have all been negative. Obama is spending a lot of money here and it seems to be working for him.

Ryan C look at the page and see this:
A Day After Nashville, McCain
DIRTY DIRTY DIRTY!

BUSH FAILED ECONOMIC POLICY=NO MCCAIN POTUS.
JOHN MCCAIN MUST ANSWER FOR GEORGE BUSH’ FAILED ADMINISTRATION.
NOWAY, NO HOW, NO MCCAIN.
REPS. NEED TO GO AWAY AND REGROUP.
THIS REPUBLICAN BRAND THANKS TO GEORGE BUSH-WITH THE SUPPORT OF MCCAIN
IS TOAST.

omg…
The economic policy of Bush has nothing to do with our current financial situation. He gave 17 warnings in 2008 alone regarding the need to take economic action.
Instead we had complete inaction from the Democratic led Congress. The Democrats control Congress, remember?

It is racism to bring up anything that is not jermaine to the issues. This article is more bunk.We are lucky that a man of Obama;s character would lower himself to get into this stupid thing and serve us.

This kid will get the book thrown at him and he will indeed be a victim. He is in fact the victim of the democratic idea that any of their actions are justified. This is essentially the Bill Ayers idea that he has the God given right to blow things and people up, because he as a rich brat does not like something about America or Americans.
This same thinking is what propels the people at ACORN to do massive voter fraud. After all they know better than all other Americans who shoul dbe running the country.
This corruption and moral decay and Obama’s association with it should be central issues of the campaign. And, yes, I am a democrat.

Obama did not even work for ACORN as a community organizer.
All he did was represent them in a lawsuit against the state to make them comply with some federal voting stuff.
We should make the distiniction between something done by the campaign and an independent individual. This Democratic Senator is busy- do you think he has time to watch what his son is doing on the computer?
In the first place, it was bad practice on Palin’s part to be using a free e-mail service for government business instead of a secured network like what public servants are obliged to do. Not to mention the hacker did not even have to use dictionary bruteforce to get the password- he requested for it by finding her SS number which was lying around the Internet for some reason, and the password question was where she met her husband- Wasilla High, with no code whatsover.
The hacker should not have done that, but it was really also a lack of prudency on Palin’s part.

Grey Matter that is a great idea – blame Palin for a democrat breaking the law – not littering, but a felony. Lucky for the kid, as he will probably go to a federal prison.
We cannot condone breaking the law because these people are in your favorite political party. This is how tyrants take over countries.

Typical Voter–
As a white person, I am completely offended that you refer to Obama as a black man. He is equally white as he is black. Why is that not mentioned? He’s not white, and he’s not black.
I think there is some anti-white racism here.

Typical Voter – no one said Obama is a Muslim. He does however have very good ties with Muslims. That tuns out to be a valuable thing.
OK, there were some illegal donations to his campaign that came from PLO territory and member of Hamas have said they like him.

Typical Voter – who cares about some antic lunatics. We are in the middle of chaos in the 21st century. We have 21st century lunatics who are trying to kill us. And they really do not care who your great grandparents were – as does the vast majority of Americans.
Come on get over it. We need to get to work and work with each other. Lets look at the problems we have today.

Typical Voter most of us do not write down the ethnicity of the people for whom we vote. You are saying that we should vote for Obama because we owe it to black people. You can actually say that with a straight face?
I think we should vote for people who took out home they could not afford to repay – that makes as much sense. nonsense.

Typical Fascist,
I worked on Richard Boddie’s U.S. Senate campaigns back in the 90s. As I am not afflicted with “liberal white guilt”, I don’t apply a racial quota to my vote.
You should try it sometime…

“Typical Voter says we should vote for Obama because he is black.”
Typical voter is a troll all. Don’t fall for it. He/She is trying to get you worked up and is trying to incite anger. Stay focused. 27 days to go. Eyes on the prize.
Go Obama/Biden/We the People 08!

“Kernell, if convicted, faces five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and a three year term of supervised release.”

Sandy B: There are investigations of acorn in every state that could be considered crucial to the election. One could get the idea that the Acorn people are being directed to these states.
Say, didn’t Obama use to be a lawyer for these guys?

ok, my friends,
i had to go.but now back to answer typical voters post to me.
first of all I ask all of you not to take the bait.
typical voter is just trying to bait you. and hence continue to distract us from the real issues.
as a black person, when sen. clinton was in the race i was for sen. clinton. because i could see they difference on the issues.
but now that it is obama and mccain/
i can see the difference in obama and mccain.
and the issue that will distinguish each of them and how they will help this country. has nothing to do with the color of their skin.
don’t fall for it.
i think most (not all) of the things mccain is saying about and against obama, and the same for mccain supporters they would be saying no matter the color of the opponent.
if you haven’t been able to tell the difference in obama and mccain and still hung up on the skin color deal.
you have not been paying attention.
the same for people who keep saying obama is a blank slate, he may have been back in jan. 08.. but if you are still saying that today, you have not been doing your homework, and paying attention.
that is why i cannot understand why mccain would have palin out there saying those things.
our country and economy under george bush has been going steadly downhill.
and all mccain and co can talk about is about obama personally.
mccain is running out of time the election is right around the corner,
for mccain and palin to still be trying to sell to people they don’t know obama,
is to try and play their people stupid.
are the people who are buying the line
that mccain and palin are trying to sell that we still don’t know obama
stupid?
if you think you still don’t know obama
stop standing in behind sarah palin yelling “yeah” and get on the internet and do some independent investigation for yourself.
don’t let your important vote be swayed by someone you had hardly heard from two months ago, who is only telling you what she has been told to say.
come on people.
the mavrick has been side-kicking with bush for the last eight years.
mccain has hired the same people who sunk him the last time he ran for president. and they now have him doing to obama what they did to him.
mccain denounced that kind of politics then, but he is right on board with it now. (anything to try and win)
the question now is
will the real mccain please stand up.
please stand up.
he may have been a mavrick in 2000 but his turned into a side-kick of george bush.
mccain must answer for the way bush has messed up this country
no way, no how, no mccain.hrc

If Obama’s personal e-mail was hacked into you would find thank you’s to Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko and all his Acorn supporters who created false voters to vote for him.

WATCH THE DOUBLE STANDARD NOW. PLEASE EVERY ONE, FOLLOW THIS CASE WEATHER YOU BE A REP. OR DEM. Let’s see if there is equal justice under the law.

len: Maybe he can join Rezko in prison. They are both crooked. And a democratic lawmaker’s son on top of that. I wonder what Obama thinks of that. Probably nothing since he had close ties to a bomber himself. And I remember very well about Ayers and Bobby Rush who called themselves the Chicago 7. There were five more including Ayers wife Bernadine. They were all anti-american hating this country for the Vietnam war. Of course, President Kennedy was the first to send 25,000 troops over to Vietnam which he should not have done. After Kennedy died and Johnson took over he sent 250,000 there. Kennedy made the first mistake and secondly Johnson should have taken the troops out of there and let them fight their own battles. However, that didn’t give Ayers the right to bomb government buildings. And Obama knew everything about him and they are neighbors and you know what that means.

I’m glad to see that McCain is “outing” his relationship with Ayers today. He claims to be endorsed by 100 former ambassadors, including Leonore Annenberg. She wasn’t an ambassador (fudging the truth, McCain?) but her late husband was. But she did start the Annenberg Foundation. Right the one that Ayers and Obama both sat on the board for. Obviously McCain is a big fan, and doesn’t care that she has such “dangerous terrorists” on her board.

Wasn’t it Richard Daley, once mayor of Chicago, who said “Vote early and often”? BHO listened, and sent out his ACORN troops to make it happen. Typical corrupt Chicago politician. “Judge not by the color of a man’s skin but by the contact of his character”.

Election Day = Bradley Effect

The max they’re going to get on this guy is less than 6 months jail and a $1000 fine. The act they charged him under doesn’t apply.
If it was her email account on a government server, it could have been a terrorism charge under the Patriot Act. It doesn’t qualify under the Stored Data Act because the emails weren’t unread and they were on the ISP server not her machine. It is only a misdemeanor under the only remaining law that could apply.
What a waste of law enforcement. Trumped up charges hoping they can force him to cut a deal.

Dude, man I’m sorry. I think he was just trying to do everyone a favor and trying to make Palin be known (since she really wasn’t being very transparent). But dude, sorry you had to get caught and had to go down. Way to take one for the team. And at least you had the #### to do the real investigation into “who” this woman was. No one knew her, or knew what she was about. So sorry you had to go down like this.

a crime is a crime. there shouldn’t be partisan judgment on it.
give him a couple years in jail, and the same for the other guy who broke into Palin’s account with the info he obtained from Kernell. the people at 4chan should learn a good lesson.

I believe the evil and genius Hacker, Kernell doesn’t have connection with Obama. I, however, do believe that Kernell’s father is Tennessee State Rep. Mike Kernell, a Democrat who is extreamly radical supporter for Obama influenced for his son to act something negatively against McCain/Palin/GOP.
Always extreamly radical groups and persons have made a huge problems:
ACON-Voter Fraud in OH, 2008, AL-Quada-
mess murder against 3,000 innocent American on Sept. 11, Bill Ayers,
AL-Mansour Saudi Radical Islamic Money-
Obama is a smart and good speaker only. Obama has firmly built up a sticky realationship with the radical groups and persons in domestic and Islamic countries. He is not ready to lead American.