Son of Democratic State Legislator Suspected of Hacking Palin’s E-Mail
Earlier on Monday, FBI agents raided the apartment of the son of a Democratic legislator for the state of Tennessee. The raid came after investigation (of both the FBI itself and private citizens) made it highly likely that the son, David Kernell, hacked Governor Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! e-mail last week.
After hacking the governor’s account, the hacker boasted about his crime on Internet forums. He explained to interested readers how he hacked Palin’s e-mail, and had to, saddened, admit that he did not find any ‘dirt’ on her.
What makes this case so remarkable, aside from someone having the audacity to hack someone else’s e-mail account, is that the suspect is the son of a Democratic lawmaker. One can only suspect that Mike Kernell and his son’s relationship has been severely damaged by junior’s crime (assuming he did it of course – he may not have done anything wrong).
In what can be interpreted as a sign that David knew that something bad was going to happen, and had a guilty conscience, he and his friends fled the apartment at the moment FBI agents arrived – he was just throwing a party; perhaps to celebrate his crime?
The hacking of Palin’s e-mail by a private citizen, who is the son of a politician, is yet again a sign of the decaying ethics of the political debate in the United States. These things are exceptional, but they fit into the general partisan bickering. Political opponents and rivals are not merely individuals who hold different opinions, they are ‘evil,’ and, as such, not protected by the law – whatever can be used to destroy them should be used; let there be no doubt that partisan Democrats would have used information that would do considerable damage to Palin, if the hacker would have discovered it in her Yahoo! account.
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Fixed.
Yes, I have gotten that cynical.