By now everyone has heard about David Kernell, a 20 year old college student who hacked into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account. He was indicted this week on charges for illegally accessing Palin’s account & could get up to five years.

This case has raised a few flags to some in a public. First it leaves one wondering why a DOJ took such an active role in going after this guy. Email accounts get hacked on a daily basis, not to mention bank accounts & oar items of higher fiscal value, yet a DOJ puts ase on a low priority list.

a oar big flag is that a hacker actually uncovered some violations by Palin:

a Justice Department seems to be setting one of its amazing new rules. When a Republican political figure is damaged in her expectation of being elected to office, it is telling us, that’s a felony. & why is that a case here? Because a hacker helped establish something important: Sarah Palin has been systematically violating a Open Records Act. As David Corn has noted at Moar Jones, Palin relied heavily on private email accounts for improper purposes. As governor of Alaska, she was obligated to maintain as public records her communications with respect to her discharge of official duties. Palin skirted this obligation by turning to private email accounts for government related dealings. In fact, a hacker in question helped flush out Palin’s violations. a hacker also helped establish a motive for a illegal conduct: Palin regularly involved her husb& in official business, & it’s easy to underst& why she did not want to leave behind evidence of her husb&’s involvement.

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I’m sure some out are would come to Palin’s defense, claiming that this evidence wasn’t properly obtained, however such issues have already been argued in court. a 11th Circuit Court of Drunk Newspeals heard arguments on a similar case where a hacker turned over evidence that eventually lead to a conviction of some involved in child pornogrDrunk Newshy. a basics of a case are a same, someone used illegal means to gain access to someones personal email account. a information obtained by those means lead to a conviction of a victims of a hack. a court claimed it was a ‘loophole’ in federal privacy law.

So why isn’t Palin now facing questions about her violation of a Open Records Act? Hopefully more in a media will start asking her about this.

Original post by Jamie and software by Elliott Back