Sarah Palins mailbox hacked, but why did she use it for business ?
So last week we saw Vice President candidate Sarah Palin’s personal Yahoo account being ‘hacked’.
The hackers broke into Mrs Palin’s personal Yahoo! email account, which she uses to send government emails in addition to her official Governor’s address. Critics did suggest that she and her office might use personal accounts to send information they want to keep secret, sidestepping public diclosure laws.
Now this isn’t the first time that this has happened (Karl Rove during the Waxman affair is just another example). With all the technology available these days and our government having to comply with strict rules to preserve information (after all, they are in office to serve the taxpayers/citizens of the United States), it makes me wonder if they were trying to hide something).
October 10th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
It was just announced that an Alaskan judge has ordered the state of Alaska to preserver any gov’t-related emails that Palin sent from private accounts.
According to this story in the Miami Herald: “The judge ordered the attorney general to contact Yahoo and other private carriers to preserve any e-mails sent and received on those accounts. If the e-mails were destroyed when the accounts were deactivated, he directed state officials to have the companies attempt to resurrect the e-mails.
‘We shouldn’t be in a position where public records have been lost because the governor didn’t do what every other state employee knows to do, which is to use an official, secure state e-mail account to conduct state business,’ McLeod said after the 90-minute hearing.
‘It’s a dereliction of the governor and her duties,’ she said.”
Read the entire article here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/721225.html