Palin was using a YAHOO account to communicate state government matters so they couldn’t be scrutinized under normal protocols of an open government. The law enforcement official she may have helped get rid of had YAHOO emails from Palin sent to him concerning the trooper.
In a sense, she’s like Dick Cheney – he helped keep energy meetings secret and we got $4 a gallon gas. Do we really need more secrecy?

My fellow citizens, do not be distracted by this nonsense about Sarah Palin. The Republicans would like you to forget that the legislative chickens they set loose over the last three decades have now come home to roost.
McCain’s claim that he will end the “reckless conduct, corruption and unbridled greed” that caused this financial crisis would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous.
He is among those most responsible for this mess. He has called himself “fundamentally a deregulator”; he helped abolish all the Depression-era rules designed to protect Americans from the “unbridled greed” of special interests on Wall Street by vigorously supporting both the Commodity Futures Modernization Act and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
Chief sponsor of both bills was Phil “Enron Loophole” Gramm, the man McCain picked to co-chair his campaign and who insisted there was no real crisis, only a “mental recession” that hard-working and anxious Americans were “whiners.” McCain is now attempting to deceive us into thinking he will “reform” the very system he put in place. Don’t believe it. Republicans have always subscribed to the notion that “We need to let business alone and let business figure it out.” Well, under Republican rule we let business alone and now the taxpayers are forced to provide a safety net for billionaires.
As recently as Monday McCain denied there even was a economic crisis saying that “The fundamentals of our economy are strong.” Then, in a farcical C.Y.A maneuver, made the ludicrous claim that the “fundamentals” he meant were American workers. He has said he doesn’t know much about the economy, but he knew enough to game the system to benefit fat cats at the expense of working Americans.
Enough is enough. Common sense tells us that some regulation is vital if we are to prevent such meltdowns. Obama will work to streamline the regulatory framework and to crack down on manipulation of financial security markets.
In November, we have what may be a last chance to free ourselves from the clutches of those like McCain who for decades have enabled “reckless conduct, corruption unbridled greed.” It’s time to give them their pink slips, call security to stand by while they clean out their desks, and show them the door.
Let’s make it happen.

Why would you assume that someone on the “left” has hacked into Sarah Palin’s email account–and how exactly does she know someone hacked into her account? Sounds like another fake outrage to me.

the “group” that goes by Anonymous is not a group of “hackers” nor are they really “leftists.”
people like me are hackers… people who break into another’s email account for malicious purposes are called crackers – yes, to us there is a difference. the Anonymous group, which i have no association with, is a bunch of individuals with anarchist tendencies who have pitted themselves against the religion of scientology, and possibly other high-profile religious nuts like palin.
first of all, i doubt that anyone from Anonymous did it, but more likely a script kiddie who got into yahoo (not too hard to do) thinking he/she was being cool.
but the real concern is why is palin using yahoo for government business communications? why is she not using the .gov email account? is she afraid of the record keeping of the government system like the bush/cheney dictators?
probably more likely that a rightist broke in and deleted incriminating emails regarding troopergate.
oh, michele, are you going to brag about mccain being tied in the rcp national poll? or his position on intrade (down by 3 points)? a week-long bump… well, i give palin credit for buoying mccain for that long, but it looks like it’s over now and we can get back to talking about the issues like the economy.

“Explaining how she felt when John McCain offered her the Vice-Presidential spot, my Vice-Presidential candidate, Governor Sarah Palin, said something very profound: `I answered him “Yes” because I have the confidence in that readiness and knowing that you can’t blink, you have to be wired in a way of being so committed to the mission, the mission that we’re on, reform of this country and victory in the war, you can’t blink. So I didn’t blink then even when asked to run as his running mate.’
“Isn’t that so true? I know that many times, in my life, while living it, someone would come up and, because of I had good readiness, in terms of how I was wired, when they asked that—whatever they asked—I would just not blink, because, knowing that, if I did blink, or even wink, that is weakness, therefore you can’t, you just don’t. You could, but no—you aren’t.
“That is just how I am.
“Do you know the difference between me and a Hockey Mom who has forgot her lipstick?
“A dog collar.
“Do you know the difference between me and a dog collar smeared with lipstick?
“Not a damn thing.
“We are essentially wired identical.
“So, when Barack Obama says he will put some lipstick on my pig, I am, like, Are you calling me a pig? If so, thanks! Pigs are the most non-Élite of all barnyard animals. And also, if you put lipstick on my pig, do you know what the difference will be between that pig and a pit bull? I’ll tell you: a pit bull can easily kill a pig. And, as the pig dies, guess what the Hockey Mom is doing? Going to her car, putting on more lipstick, so that, upon returning, finding that pig dead, she once again looks identical to that pit bull, which, staying on mission, the two of them step over the dead pig, looking exactly like twins, except the pit bull is scratching his lower ass with one frantic leg, whereas the Hockey Mom is carrying an extra hockey stick in case Todd breaks his again. But both are going, like, Ha ha, where’s that dumb pig now? Dead, that’s who, and also: not a smidge of lipstick.
“A lose-lose for the pig.
“There’s a lesson in that, I think.”
From “My Gal,” George Saunders, http://www.newyorker.com Read the rest, it’s hilarious!

actually, rob, the breech seems to be real, and confirmed, but i’m not so stupid as to believe that it was anyone from Anonymous, or anyone from the left without some proof.
but just picture this… v.p. palin sharing secrets with her right-wing neocon buddies on the next use of the “bush doctrine” (now that she knows what it is). to: richard.perle@pnac.com, from: messiah.palin@yahoo.com, subject: “bomb bomb bomb iran” posted on the internet by a 17 year-old. she’s an idiot.
at least mccain is too dumb to know how to use email.

Aawww, poor wittle Sarah. Maybe if she had used an official account instead of trying to hide her email messages in a Yahoo account it wouldn’t have been hacked. Yahoo email is not that secure. All you need to read someone’s email is the account name, which she made public, and the password. Sounds like she didn’t use a very secure password. Now because of her own security lapse she wants the FBI and secret service to investigate because she feels all violated.
Meanwhile, during the DNC the police found three white supremisists with a high powered sniper rifle who admitted to planning to asassinate Obama. The Republican DA didn’t persue the case basically saying they were just meth-heads spouting off. Nothing to see here, move along.

“The Violation of Sarah” sounds like a title of one of those Renaissance paintings of the Christian martyrs . . .
Hmmm. Is that today’s talking point? Make sure the religious right begins to see all questioning or criticism of Palin as persecution? Whip up righteous indignation over the mistreatment of the faithful by the “Elites”?
BTW, re: the emails. I bet Anonymous is correct in his guess that the hackers were dispatched by McCain’s campaign to clean up any incriminating emails left carelessly in a folder somewhere in her personal account. It would be a perfect (and typical) Rovian gambit to break in and then arrange to have it discovered so that they could blame their opponents. Perfect!
And yes, let’s talk about why she USES that account for government business. Secrecy, deception, divisiveness and false accusations: the familiar and unmistakable spoor of this bunch. Ever occur to you that they’re also precisely the traits associated with the diabolical?

I love it. Yes…let’s talk about the economy.
Oil prices are going down…after even talk of drilling in the US.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…that ought to be a great issue for Obama…considering that he’s the second largest recipient of their political cash….that ought to be a big incentive for him to straighten out their mess.
Hey…who was the Democrat in charge of the Senate Finance Committee on Banking? What is HE doing about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…oh yes…getting donations from them (the only Senator getting more than Obama).
Or maybe we should be talking ethics…

And yes, let’s talk about why she USES that account for government business
From personal experience, I picked up on something…she “bounces back and forth” from her official account and that yahoo account.
I do that also – and the way that’s possible is that emails get sent TO my “official” account (the one associated with my web site) and FORWARDED to the yahoo account. Why would I do this? Not for “Secrecy, deception, divisiveness and false accusations”. I do it because it’s easier for me to check the yahoo account from places other than my own computer. If Palin has a PC in once place and a laptop in another, it makes a lot of sense to me why she would use a yahoo account. If she downloaded emails to both places…they’d be scattered. If she has the official email forwarded to a yahoo account, then all the official mail would still be on one computer. She can access the yahoo mail via any portable device and that makes life a lot easier. It also explains how she can “bounce back and forth”.

All you creeps who can rationalize any rotten behavior because it helps your candidate ought to be ashamed. This is not a distraction. This is an example of the insanity to consolidate power.
Whether or not the dopes who hacked her are leftists or anarchists or even worse, Reformed Christians, is immaterial. The fact is that some of you are so twisted with hatred that you would condone this intrusion of privacy to gain 3 points in an election.
Her 17 y/o daughters cell phone number was posted! And called! That’s sick. Anyone who condones that is sicker still. And to consider it trivial or dig through the trash to find some sort of “scandal” is pathetic. Most professional people have a work e-mail account and a personal e-mail account. And, unfortunately, there is little wall between the two in life, as evidenced by the disruption into to Gov. Palin’s personal life by those who oppose her professional life.
BTW, for those of you hijacking the thread with stories of how “deregulation” is responsible for the sub-prime mortgage crisis, try reading this.
http://biglizards.net/blog/archives/2008/09/subprime_mccain.html#more
It sure taught me a lot.
http://biglizards.net/blog/archives/2008/09/subprime_mccain.html#more

When will the left resort to assassination to get its way? That’s a felony, too.

If Palin has a PC in once place and a laptop in another, it makes a lot of sense to me why she would use a yahoo account. If she downloaded emails to both places…they’d be scattered.
She the governor of Alaska, not running a mom-and-pop. Are you saying that they can’t get an email system that allows her to access her office email while she’s on her laptop? This isn’t 1985. You can actually get email systems that allow for remote access.
It’s unfortunate her mail got hacked, but it also shows how either hopelessly inept or naive she is to think that a yahoo account, for heaven’s sake, was an appropriate and safe place for confidential business email.

Maybe she should have to pay herself for the investigation into this “violation”. Like she ensured that Alaskan women who truly were “violated” had to pay for their own rape investigations.

Hacking into Palin’s email
by kos
Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 09:05:09 AM PDT
“It’s not cute, funny, righteous, or justifiable in any way. This is just as odious as the gross violations that spurred the FISA battle. I hope whoever hacked into her email gets caught and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
At least one Republican personally knows how it feels to have someone look into her private communications without proper cause or approval. It would be nice if that spurred a renewed conservative embrace of privacy issues and support for those key Constitutional principles designed to protect us from the tyranny of government.
But I won’t hold my breath.”

Why is Sarah Palin entitled to privacy when us average joes aren’t?