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Palin Testifies At E-Mail Hacking Trial
NPR ^ | 04/23/2010

Posted on 04/23/2010 1:05:02 PM PDT by speciallybland

Sarah Palin testified Friday against a 22-year-old man accused of hacking into her e-mail account, saying later it's up to the judge to decide whether he should serve prison time if convicted.

Palin testified that the hacking compromised one of the main ways she communicated with her family back in Alaska as she campaigned in 2008 as the Republican vice presidential candidate. Outside the courthouse, when asked whether she thought community service was punishment enough rather than prison, she said, "That's up to the judge."

Former University of Tennessee student David Kernell faces up to 50 years in federal prison if convicted of identity theft, mail fraud and two other felony charges. His lawyer has called the case a prank, not a crime.

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: cybersecurity; dirtytricks; email; fraud; hacker; identitytheft; internet; kernell; palin; palinfreeperping; palinkernellhacker; rabscuttle
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1 posted on 04/23/2010 1:05:02 PM PDT by speciallybland
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To: speciallybland

His lawyer has called the case a prank, not a crime.

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A prank! Of course!


2 posted on 04/23/2010 1:07:38 PM PDT by loungitude ( The truth hurts.)
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To: loungitude

That’s like Clinton saying his mistakes were “snafus”.


3 posted on 04/23/2010 1:09:42 PM PDT by newfreep (Palin/DeMint 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: speciallybland

A prank. What was it, hell week?


4 posted on 04/23/2010 1:09:47 PM PDT by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: speciallybland

50 years seems a bit steep. 2 years oughta do it.


5 posted on 04/23/2010 1:09:59 PM PDT by ez ("Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton)
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To: speciallybland

A prank..yeah that makes sense..Plastering people’s phone numbers so they can be harassed and threatened, yeah that is some kind of prank isn’t it. I wonder how liberals would have felt if someone had posted Michelle Obama’s phone number..have people call her and say “We are outside your house right now.” The media hardly talks about the fact that this guy is a liberal whose father is a big flaming lib..we all know why he did this, he was told to, look at him, he is a moron, no way did he come up with this on his own


6 posted on 04/23/2010 1:10:08 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: newfreep

And Sandy Burglar was being sloppy when he stole classified documents from the archives.


7 posted on 04/23/2010 1:10:35 PM PDT by Carley (I'll keep clinging to the constitution, my guns and my religion, thank you.)
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To: loungitude

If I put a bag of flaming dog poop on my neighbor’s porch, it’s a prank. If it burns the house down with everybody inside it, it’s Arson/Murder.


8 posted on 04/23/2010 1:10:44 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Build a man a fire; he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire; he'll be warm the rest of his life)
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To: ez

2 days oughta do it.


9 posted on 04/23/2010 1:10:50 PM PDT by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: speciallybland

And all those Leftist damaging protests are just pranks like breaking windows and beating up people ...


10 posted on 04/23/2010 1:11:12 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Those That Turn Their Swords into Plows Will Plow For Those That Don't.)
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To: Genoa

Please post your email address and password for us. Then let’s see if you think two days oughta do it.


11 posted on 04/23/2010 1:12:38 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Build a man a fire; he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire; he'll be warm the rest of his life)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Oliver Wendall Holmes couldn’t have said it better.


12 posted on 04/23/2010 1:13:53 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: speciallybland

It was done with malicious intent — it was a crime, not a prank.


13 posted on 04/23/2010 1:13:56 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: speciallybland
His lawyer has called the case a prank, not a crime.

G. Gordon Liddy declares Watergate to be just a prank. "We broke in to put buckets of water on their doors and turn their file drawers upside down."

14 posted on 04/23/2010 1:14:07 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Obamacare: The 2010 version of the Intolerable Acts.)
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To: Cyber Liberty
Please post your email address and password for us. Then let’s see if you think two days oughta do it.

Let me spell it out. I was referring to what life would be like as someone's "wife."
15 posted on 04/23/2010 1:14:44 PM PDT by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: speciallybland

The perp will enjoy being a prison wife.


16 posted on 04/23/2010 1:15:58 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: Genoa

Not sure what you mean...you think no jail time for this hack?


17 posted on 04/23/2010 1:16:32 PM PDT by ez ("Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton)
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To: speciallybland
His lawyer has called the case a prank, not a crime.

1. This article is from NPR (National Progressives Radio)

2. The kid admitted in exchanges on the web that he did it to "get the goods" on Palin

3. He described her in his website admin notes as a C___ just like the Netroots t-shirts. I am confident he did this trying to impress them, he is a hacker want-to-be.

4. He moched Palin in his notes saying that she "went to Church" and "had all those children"

5. He stated in his notes how much he liked Obama, almost as much as teletubbies.

6. There are reports that the kid has stability problems, that is very possible. I have seen evidence of his extreme immaturity.

18 posted on 04/23/2010 1:16:49 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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To: ez

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2499231/posts?page=15#15


19 posted on 04/23/2010 1:17:58 PM PDT by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: speciallybland
...the hacking compromised one of the main ways she communicated with her family back in Alaska as she campaigned in 2008...

The hacking was another compromising of the credibility of Palin by the MSM.

They spent many news cycles describing the hacked emails, asking whether it was appropriate for Palin to conduct Alaska business using a private Yahoo email account, wondering whether compromising messages, would be found, commenting on how smart it was to have such a poor password on her email account, yada, yada, yada...

-PJ

20 posted on 04/23/2010 1:20:23 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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