Palin email witness decries 'dog and pony' prosecution

The Register (UK) ^ | April 28 2010 | Dan Goodin

[Brugmansian]

A witness who testified against the man accused of breaching Sarah Palin's Yahoo! Mail account has criticized federal prosecutors for distorting the facts in an attempt to score legal points.

Gabriel Ramuglia said the episode left him so disenchanted that he's changing the logging policy for Ctunnel.com, the anonymity proxy used to access Palin's Yahoo account while she was running for vice president in 2008. Before, he collected the IP address of each user along with the time and address of each web visit and stored it for seven days. Now, he logs the minimum required by law.

Ramuglia said he's taking the step because he believes prosecutors exaggerated entries in the log information when presenting it to the jury in the case. On several occasions, he said assistant US attorneys told him privately they wanted to "show as much commerce as possible" by emphasizing connections his proxy made to ad servers, even though his site almost always filters out their content.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

In the first place, this butt head shouldn't be making any comments while the jury is still out. Second, he basically provides a service designed to facilitate illegal activity, and is complaining that prosecutors exaggerated the extent of damages the “litte butt head” caused.
Perhaps we should take into consideration the billions of dollars of damage these pimple faced hackers, who have nothing better to do than try to destroy and disrupt other peoples computers. Life should be appropriate.
I think they should both be cell mates for a long time.

[Brugmansian]

I hope the Feds didn’t over-do it. Shouldn’t be taking two days for this case. His lawyers put on almost no defense.

[silverleaf]

a lawyer, “distorting the facts”

imagine that, is there no desensy left in this rasist world

sarc

[Pravious]

“Shouldn’t be taking two days for this case.”

It all comes down to the jury, I guess (assuming, of course, there is one!). If they’re liberal, facts don’t matter. Justice doesn’t matter. Right and wrong don’t matter. Guy walks.

If they’re conservatives, we have more of a chance... though likely there’s a bunch of THEM who are RINOS, who will vote with the liberals because they want to be liked.

[Carley]

BULL DROPPINGS

[chooseascreennamepat]

I heard he was complaining that they were trying to convict him of a crime!!! The horror of it all.

D’oh!

[matginzac]

From what I’ve read, this trial is taking place in a very conservative friendly area and if I read it right, this little punk’s a** is grass...we can only hope...remember, cute Bristol got on the stand to tell of what kind of crap she got on her (I think) FB page after this little s**t hacked it...

[Brugmansian]

His lawyers are nuts for taking this to trial. He admitted it ("I read though the emails… ALL OF THEM… before I posted, and what I concluded was anticlimactic, there was nothing there, nothing incriminating, nothing that would derail her campaign as I had hoped") and now his lawyers are saying it was a "prank" and he wasn't trying to mess with an election.

Big government on how the media treated O'Keefe vs this kid:

Want proof of media bias? Here it is. The tale of two cases.

[UCANSEE2]

imagine that, is there no desensy left in this rasist world

... and apparently there is also a shortage of the letter 'c'.

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

Second, he basically provides a service designed to facilitate illegal activity ...

Ummmm..., providing anonymous access to the Internet is not designed specifically for illegal activity. It may be used for illegal activity, but it's also used for legitimate purposes and purposes that everyone has a right to secure for themselves.

Take a look at this service that has been around for quite a long time and quite a few people use it...

Anonymizer

[Star Traveler]

Here are a series of FReeper articles on the E-mail Hacker, David Kernell and Sarah Palin ...

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• Palin Testifies At E-Mail Hacking Trial

• Sarah Palin testifies in e-mail hacking case

• (CBS, FOXVideo) Sarah Palin On E-Mail Hacker: 'Sad State Of Affairs'

• Palin Testifies in E-mail Hacking Case (Drudge Headline)

• Palin on Greta to discuss David Kernell Trial

• Palin Testifies As The FBI Details an Elaborate Coverup By Defendant in the E-Mail Hacking Case

• Palin on Hackers and Illegal Immigration

• Defendant in Palin hacking case won't testify

• Prosecutor urges jurors to convict student in Palin e-mail trial (Jury to Deliberate tomorrow)

• Jury to get Palin case after Kernell opts not to testify

• Palin email witness decries 'dog and pony' prosecution

• Still No Verdict in Palin email Trial

• No End In Sight For Palin E-mail Hacking Case

• Breaking - jurors reported they have reached a verdict on 3 of 4 charges in Palin hacking trial

• Judge presents 'dynamite charge' to stuck Palin e-mail jurors

• Jury convicts Palin e-mail intruder on two counts

• Palin hacker found guilty on two counts

• Sarah Palin: As Watergate Taught Us, We Reject Illegally Breaking Into A Candidates’ Communications

• Jury convicts Palin e-mail intruder on 2 counts; mistrial declared on ID theft

• JURY FINDS PALIN HACKER GUILTY

• ...Man Convicted of Illegally Accessing Sarah Palin's E-mail Account and Obstruction of Justice