Sarah Palin's Yahoo Email Account Hacked

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren't there any limits to what one will do in support of a candidate?

FYI, the hackers most likely support Ron Paul.

I'll wait and see - the automatic link in most peoples' minds will be to the Obama campaign or its supporters - and involved or not I think it will come to bite him. I am sympathetic to their invasion of privacy - this is different from photogs shooting pictures all over the place or reporters asking all kinds of questions of your friends and enemies - that goes with the territory. This is over the line.

[Anonymous]

Wow, I would have thought the ACLU and privacy folks would have been outraged at this illegal activity. If this was Biden's email that was hacked, you can be sure that the headlines would be different.

But no, the hypocracy is just exuding. (and I am an Obama supporter).

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I would have thought the ACLU and privacy folks would have been outraged at this illegal activity. If this was Biden's email that was hacked, you can be sure that the headlines would be different.

But no, the hypocracy is just exuding. (and I am an Obama supporter).

Or, you can look at this another way. If hackers had broken into a private Obama email account and uncovered evidence of possible illegal activity, the headlines would be different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't anyone else think this is just plain wrong? Obtaining this information with a subpoena - okay. Hacking? I feel sorry for her and her family - especially her kids who had their personal phone numbers and email accounts published online. Aren't there any limits to what one will do in support of a candidate?

Well, Palin is not cooperating on Troopergate and the Republicans have sent out a big gun lawyer from NY to stall on this as long as possible. Getting a subpoena for the emails will also take a lot of time in courts and and other stalling strategies. Probably couldn't get the info before the elections and by then, the email account would have been deleted along with its contents.

To think Palin used her personal email account to avoid a subpoena in the first place.

[Anonymous]

So that makes illegal hacking and illegal distribution of email ok?

[Anonymous]

So it is impeachment time when President Bush pursues wiretaps of suspicious international calls without a warrant, but you have no problem with sharing the contents of a politician's email account ... as long as it is a politician you do not like. You are so ethical.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:So it is impeachment time when President Bush pursues wiretaps of suspicious international calls without a warrant, but you have no problem with sharing the contents of a politician's email account ... as long as it is a politician you do not like. You are so ethical.

Or, to look at things another way:

The president violates the constitution;

A prospective vice president evades the law;

a group of 14 year olds causes embarrassment.

Which one upsets you the most?

[Anonymous]

No matter how you try to rationalize it, hacking personal email is just as wrong as the Watergate Break In, Eagleton's medical records - wrong is wrong. And right, wrong or indifferent, the hacking will be associated with the Obama campaign. This is why Obama supporters should be shouting from the rooftop how wrong this is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So it is impeachment time when President Bush pursues wiretaps of suspicious international calls without a warrant, but you have no problem with sharing the contents of a politician's email account ... as long as it is a politician you do not like. You are so ethical.

If my candidate were so stupid as to start using his personal email to participate in unethical behavior, I'd say he deserved it. I'd start questioning your candidate's ethics.

Sometimes, ends justify the means to catch the bad guys who are already thinking of avoiding subpoenas when they're in the starting gates of their "public service" tenure.

[Anonymous]

So we should support waterboarding alleged terrorists at Guantanamo.

And you wonder why dems have a bad reputation in the fly-over states?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So we should support waterboarding alleged terrorists at Guantanamo.

And you wonder why dems have a bad reputation in the fly-over states?

Weren't questionable torture methods already being practiced in Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, and countless other secret prisons under the Republican administration and nobody batted an eye? Weren't people in the same party violating the Geneva Conventions on torturing POWs? Oh, right. Suspected terrorists don't technically qualify as POWs, right? Or they're just in legal limbo for 5+ yrs without any evidence to incriminate them. For what?

Flash your holier-than-thou card when it suits your needs, but it's less effective given where it's been.

Sometimes, I think you have to fight fire with fire.

[Anonymous]

I am the 12:37 poster, I am an Obama supporter, I am saying *we* need to remain consistent and not be hypocritical when it suits OUR needs.

[Anonymous]

Hmm..I think there is a big difference to a government sanctioned break in and a hacker.

Of course, hackers are criminals but now the information that they exposed is in the public and should not be ignored. If Alaska had set its mooseherder IT folks off to crack her Yahoo account to expose wrong doing that would be a controversy in its own right but you would still have the problem of her misconduct being made public.

Interestingly, if someone not acting as as an agent of the police exposes information, even through criminal activity, it can still be used as evidence against the exposed person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I would have thought the ACLU and privacy folks would have been outraged at this illegal activity. If this was Biden's email that was hacked, you can be sure that the headlines would be different.

But no, the hypocracy is just exuding. (and I am an Obama supporter).

Hey, don't attack the ACLU. They've defended all kinds of folks including Nazi racists of the most despicable kind. I don't know if they're doing anything about this (can't imagine that Palin needs their help) but the ACLU defends people based on principle, not their political views.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I would have thought the ACLU and privacy folks would have been outraged at this illegal activity. If this was Biden's email that was hacked, you can be sure that the headlines would be different.

But no, the hypocracy is just exuding. (and I am an Obama supporter).

Hey, don't attack the ACLU. They've defended all kinds of folks including Nazi racists of the most despicable kind. I don't know if they're doing anything about this (can't imagine that Palin needs their help) but the ACLU defends people based on principle, not their political views.

The ACLU protects our liberties from unconstitutional government interference. It appears that private parties hacked Governor Palin's account. That's not nice, classy, or good cricket.

It's also not the ACLU's concern because there is no government actor.

FYI, the ACLU will not help you when your preschooler proudly displays your diaphragm during a dinner party, either. Not unless she's acting under color of law.

I'm just saying.