More Palin news

[smarriveurr]

Not that I'm political - but I am a techie. See, if you haven't heard yet, Sarah Palin just had her email account hacked. Not her official email, mind you. Her gov.palin YAHOO email account, the one it was speculated she used in part to avoid freedom of information laws. How did these criminal masterminds gain access to the candidate for First

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Re: On the email topic.

[smarriveurr]

Frankly, I never said they didn't. I said repubs would start bitching about how they don't and how we'd react if they did. The truth and what the republican party chooses to focus on seldom intersect.

Frankly, there's a degree to which this whole thing could be repub-engineered - because although nothing really incriminating has been found in the leaked info, Palin's people had an excuse to immediately delete her other account that she has admitted to using for business, gov.sarah. Of course, jokes on them, because Yahoo keeps backups and they can still be subpoena'd for the ethics case the repubs are trying to bury.

Naturally, however, they can now claim that the "compromised" accounts are meaningless, cuz EBIL HACKERZ!

(Me, I'm just hoping somewhere out there, Anonymous is hitting gov.sarahpalin, gov.sarah.palin, gov.palin.sarah... etc.)

Re: On the email topic.

[celemon]

The liberals here did something similar to the social democrats - got the password from someone, and sneaked onto the webpage to find out strategies before the election. It all ended with resignations, public embarrassment, and I think a few prison sentences.

Re: On the email topic.

[smarriveurr]

Yeah, we're seeing more and more these days how stepping on the rights of the people who don't own the executive branch posts doesn't really lead to much of anything.

Re: On the email topic.

[celemon]

I was astounded that it had real consequences here, especially as the people found guilty belonged to the party in power (which broke the record for fastest distancing itself from said members). Perhaps my government is reasonably uncorrupted.

Re: On the email topic.

[smarriveurr]

"Reasonably uncorrupted"... man, that would be an awesome upgrade.

Re: On the email topic.

[paleolithical]

We have a tradition of political non-interference in such things as criminal cases. Heck, we even have rules that forbid ministers from telling their corresponding bureaucracies what to do (in individual/specific cases). Sure, there are grey zones -- and there has been a regrettable tendency to try to "fix" the independence of departments -- but over all there is still hope.

Re: On the email topic.

[smarriveurr]

See, whereas here, our Republican VP candidate said she'd comply with an ethics investigation, until the presidential handlers got to her and, I guess, pointed out how there's 8 years of precedent for the executive branch not complying with anything close to justice to protect.

So she charged herself with ethics violations, to take it out of the jurisdiction of the state legislature, put it under the executive branch... and then dismiss the charges she raised against herself within days.

And that doesn't lead the news 'round here at all.

Re: On the email topic.

[celemon]

I am speechless. And that, as you may have noticed, is no mean feat.

Re: On the email topic.

[smarriveurr]

The sad part is that she agreed to comply originally, and only started stonewalling once she was given the VP nod. So, it's possible she had some small bit of integrity before hitting the national spotlight.