Wow, did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed today? For the record lots of politicians have been caught using personal email accounts for business and I think the same for all of them. The entire reason her email account was hacked was that she was caught using it for state business. If she hadn't skirted the law the email address wouldn't have been known and it wouldn't have been hacked. I do not know the politics of the hacker, but evading public scrutiny by using private email for public matters is not a political issue--it's wrong no matter the party.
The Washington Post has a piece about Palin's email policies, which include CCing her husband on state business:
Employees of major corporations would be fired for the same behavior (Sarbanes-Oxley has 'em all shit scared--destroying evidence like she did is major jail time).
Time agrees that using this un-archived email system is indeed a crime:
> The Alaska Governor could also face charges for conducting official state business using her personal, unarchived e-mail account (a crime), with some critics accusing her of skirting freedom-of- information laws in doing so.
>> Time agrees that using this un-archived email system is indeed a crime.
When I asked for a legal reference, I was hoping for a bit more than a former journalism school student putting a two-word parenthetical remark in an article that reads like one of The Messiah's press releases.
The CC'ing of her husband was for matters relating to her brother-in-law, who was a State Trooper who has publically admitted to:
1) tasering a child with his service taser (the kid was curious about what it would feel like);
2) drinking in a patrol car;
3) (most importantly) has publically admitted that he told Sarah Palin's father that he would "eat a bullet".
This man was a state police officer. Not only should he have been fired the moment ANY one of these was determined, bit charges should have been pressed against him. I would have fired anyone who didn't get rid of him too.
A prediction: this is going to backfire on Obama badly. Palin was a reformer who pissed off a lot of people in power. Very few Americans want police officers walking around who have done any of those things. This is one smear I hope you keep pushing. It helps cement her reputation as the reformer that she truly was.
The Washington Post has a piece about Palin's email policies, which include CCing her husband on state business:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09...
Employees of major corporations would be fired for the same behavior (Sarbanes-Oxley has 'em all shit scared--destroying evidence like she did is major jail time).
Time agrees that using this un-archived email system is indeed a crime:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1842097,00....
> The Alaska Governor could also face charges for conducting official state business using her personal, unarchived e-mail account (a crime), with some critics accusing her of skirting freedom-of- information laws in doing so.