I don’t have time to read through all the responses, but this is a pretty ridiculous matter. Leaving aside the hacking itself, there is not a shred of evidence that Palin used this account for government business. There are a grand total of three emails from government employees, all of which are personal in nature. There is no government business being transacted, nothing at all.
These attacks on Palin are, without question, the most serious evidence yet of the total collapse of the liberal establishment. I consider myself something of an historian and I cannot think of a single candidate for high office in the history of the United States who has been subject to so many unwarranted, vicious, abominable attacks as Governor Palin. We’ve had presidents and vice presidents, and candidates to both offices who had plenty of baggage, known and unknown, and not a single one—no, not all of them put together have ever had to suffer anything like this in the whole of American history.