BREAKING NEWS: No Indictment in Palin Hacking

American Spectator ^ | 09/23/08 | American Spectator

[Artemis Webb]

A federal grand jury in Chattanooga, Tenn., reportedly adjourned today without delivering an indictment in the hacking of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account.

The grand jury heard testimony this morning from three friends of University of Tennessee student David Kernell, according to the Chattanooga Times-Free Press, but ended its session around noon without returning an indictment.

[Artemis Webb]

BS

[mnehring]

How in the world did a grand jury get it this quickly, they just served the warrant on Monday, and generally, Grand Juries serve for a week or two at a time?

Something doesn’t smell right with this story.

[ConservativeMind]

I would hope this isn’t the end of this matter.

[Artemis Webb]

I hope nobody else posted this. It took about six minutes from the time I started it to the time FR finally completed cycling the post.

[PhiKapMom]

BS is right!

[rockabyebaby]

Nothing will come of this, afterall, this crime was against a republican.

[mnehring]

The American Spectator's title isn't exactly accurate, it makes it seem there was a no bill, not the case. From the original article in the Chattanoogan:

An indictment in the case was not included in the first batch made public early Tuesday afternoon. Indictments are sometimes not made public for several days or weeks.

[Cementjungle]

I would hope this isn’t the end of this matter.

Far from it... the kid will now go on the talk show circuit to explain how evil Sarah uses Yahoo mail for official business and stuff like that. The kid's going to be well rewarded.

[kabar]

It is not over until it is over. "adjourned today" sounds like there will be further testimony. From the story,

"The Knoxville News-Sentinel reported that Kernell has retained the services of attorney Wade Davies, who issued a statement saying, "We are confident that the truth will emerge as we go through the process. David is a decent and intelligent young man, and I look forward to assisting him during this difficult period."

[G.Mason]

It depends on what the word hacking means.

From a nation of laws to a nation of lawlessness.

The next few years should prove very interesting.

Lock & load.

[RoseofTexas]

I knew it!...the fix was in and DON'T be surprised if they HIT Palin with an OCT. Surprise with some of the info they raided from her emails. The ZERO camp has them in their hands as we speak!! Bank on it!

[reagandemocrat]

Good find. Popcorn-gate.

No indictment.......yet.

[Abathar]

"but ended its session around noon without returning an indictment."

Session - I infer that there will be more though, I don't think the case is over without an indictment.

[G.Mason]

What the heck is going on with FR?

Don't they feed the gerbils?

[Purrcival]

Why does this not surprise me?

[mnehring]

If I had to bet, they probably either didn’t even vote on it today or ‘passed’ it either to the next grand jury, on request of the DA because the investigation is ongoing) or simply to another day to hear more testimony. This all seems too fast.

Of course, there is always the option the DA has political motivation and rushed it in, put up a couple of character witnesses and recommended a ‘no bill’ to the grand jury.. I doubt the latter though as we would hear it was no billed.

[Cheerio]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087766/posts?page=24#24

[ctdonath2]

What exactly is the charge?

[Maverick68]

Couldn’t the Secret Service get involved in this?