AP Refuses To Comply With Secret Service Request On Sarah Palin's Hacked E-Mails
WASHINGTON -- Hackers broke into the Yahoo! e-mail account that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin used for official business as Alaska's governor, revealing as evidence a few inconsequential personal messages she has received since John McCain selected her as his running mate.
"This is a shocking invasion of the governor's privacy and a violation of law. The matter has been turned over to the appropriate authorities and we hope that anyone in possession of these e-mails will destroy them," the McCain campaign said in a statement.
The Secret Service contacted The Associated Press on Wednesday and asked for copies of the leaked e-mails, which circulated widely on the Internet. The AP did not comply.
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Please. These are the same people who claim that the government can snoop through all email without a warrant.
It couldn't have happened to a more appropriate person. Will Palin be offering up an explanation of why she was conducting state business on a non-archived (as required by law) and unsecured private email network? Will she be claiming that emails copied to her husband are "privileged work product?"
Or will she retreat into faux outrage?
I'll take door number two.
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