Once the cat's out of the bag...
In an effort to sidestep Alaska's public records laws, HockeyMom-slash-MooseHunter-slash-Governor Sarah Palin sometimes used a Yahoo! e-mail account to conduct official state business.
If it's legal (and plenty of public records experts say it's not) that might not be a bad way to keep a secret -- unless, say, you've decided to run for the office of vice president of The United States of America, in which case you might start getting a bit more attention from Internet ruffians such as the hacker group known as "Anonymous."
Anonymous hacked into Palin's account this week. And although the booty wasn't substantial -- most of the messages in the guv's inbox were of a personal (and in some cases prayerful) nature -- the Palin-McCain campaign...
... er, sorry, I mean the McCain-Palin campaign, of course...
... quickly released a statement asking that "anyone in possession of these e-mails will destroy them."
Um.
Yeah.
Right.
And hey, while you're at it, would you kindly return any unauthorized copies of Pamela Anderson's infamous honeymoon video?
But in what may have been an even more audacious request, the U.S. Secret Service contacted The Associated Press on Wednesday and asked for copies of the leaked e-mails. As proof that the AP values its membership (in good standing) in "the media elite," the news-gathering organization declined to comply -- but did kindly point agents from the nation's premier investigative and protective service to a relatively new research tool known as "Google."
Where, as of Wednesday evening, you could find 1,780 Webpages featuring Palin's e-mails.
-mdl
If it's legal (and plenty of public records experts say it's not) that might not be a bad way to keep a secret -- unless, say, you've decided to run for the office of vice president of The United States of America, in which case you might start getting a bit more attention from Internet ruffians such as the hacker group known as "Anonymous."
Anonymous hacked into Palin's account this week. And although the booty wasn't substantial -- most of the messages in the guv's inbox were of a personal (and in some cases prayerful) nature -- the Palin-McCain campaign...
... er, sorry, I mean the McCain-Palin campaign, of course...
... quickly released a statement asking that "anyone in possession of these e-mails will destroy them."
Um.
Yeah.
Right.
And hey, while you're at it, would you kindly return any unauthorized copies of Pamela Anderson's infamous honeymoon video?
But in what may have been an even more audacious request, the U.S. Secret Service contacted The Associated Press on Wednesday and asked for copies of the leaked e-mails. As proof that the AP values its membership (in good standing) in "the media elite," the news-gathering organization declined to comply -- but did kindly point agents from the nation's premier investigative and protective service to a relatively new research tool known as "Google."
Where, as of Wednesday evening, you could find 1,780 Webpages featuring Palin's e-mails.
-mdl
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