How Did the AP Get Hold of Palin’s Hacked E-mails?
Just wonderin’.
According to the “news” service’s own article on the topic:
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.
Here’s the story: FBI, SECRET SERVICE INVESTIGATE HACKING OF PALIN’S E-MAIL.
Whoever hacked into Palin’s account isn’t doing the Obama campaign any favors. Â I expect this will be a big story for the next day or so. Â Even if the AP is not responsible for this (which I doubt it is), it will still remind voters how far overboard the MSM has gone in going after the Republican vice presidential nominee.
(I expect I’ll have more to say on this tomorrow, but only chanced upon the story as I was about to hit the hay; I’m fading as I write this.)
UP-UPDATE: Â JammieWearingFool opines:
If you ever needed further evidence the Associated Press is in the tank for Democrats and is virulently anti-Republican, their refusal to comply with a Secret Service request says it all. Remarkably, they’ve morphed into anti-Sarah Palin bloggers by spinning the crime against Palin into some sort of Palin wrongdoing.
UP-UPDATE: James Taranto takes issue with the AP’s description of these e-mails as having been “leaked”:
These emails were not leaked, they were stolen. Here we have an actual invasion of an American citizen’s privacy, and what is the press’s attitude? If the AP is representative (and given its organizational structure, it should be), it is to regard “questions about the propriety” of the victim as more important than the invasion of privacy itself.
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I think that if it’s fair to blame Bush/Rove for the “smear” of McCain in NC, as if the liberals really give a sh*t, it’s completely fair to hold Comrade Obama for this.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — September 18, 2008 @ 5:02 am - September 18, 2008
Hopefully it will remind voters how psycho the left is.
Comment by American Elephant — September 18, 2008 @ 5:49 am - September 18, 2008
Curiouser and curiouser: the identity of person known as Rubico who takes credit for the hack has been traced to the son of a Democrat state senator from Tennessee.
Link.
Comment by V the K — September 18, 2008 @ 7:23 am - September 18, 2008
I think the real question is how did the Secret Service not get access to the emails? They were published online at one point. I think the Secret Service ought to have better intel gathering abilities than the AP.
Comment by Mitchell Blatt — September 18, 2008 @ 9:56 am - September 18, 2008
What were the grounds of the AP’s refusal? And Mitchell’s correct - why can’t the USSS get better information than the AP?
Comment by Nick — September 18, 2008 @ 10:46 am - September 18, 2008
It’s shocking how fanatical the left is becoming. I say we do the same to Obama and Hillary’s accounts if they keep this up. And I hope the AP leaders get thrown in jail for not revealing criminal evidence. GRRR.
Comment by Damon — September 18, 2008 @ 12:07 pm - September 18, 2008
Damon: i would never have it in me to be as vile and corrupt as they are, to do that.
Comment by Vince P — September 18, 2008 @ 12:25 pm - September 18, 2008
It’s an old journalistic ethic. They (we) almost never give up sources, evidence, etc. Most journalists go to jail instead of giving up sources. I don’t think it’s partisan.
Comment by Mitchell Blatt — September 18, 2008 @ 12:43 pm - September 18, 2008
Hillary and Obama’s accounts are probably a lot harder to hack into because they probably aren’t Yahoo! accounts.
Comment by Mitchell Blatt — September 18, 2008 @ 12:44 pm - September 18, 2008
Throughout the entire primaries and the general election, the Obama campaign has played dirty politics. In addition to the never ending vitriol of the Obama bloggers on the internet, nearly every time I have posted a supportive blog for Hillary Clinton … and, then for McCain/Palin … my computer’s mailbox has been inundated with hundreds of pieces of email spam. Another example of under handed behavior by Obama’s henchmen, is that they have been organized to approach retirement homes, as volunteer community speakers … only to visit multiple times spewing lop sided pro-Obama, and negative McCain propaganda to elderly people, to get their votes in November. And, now we can see unprincipled politicians and bias media hacks using the race card … telling people ” if you don’t vote for Obama, you must be a racist”. Usually, when Americans uncover such despicable tactics, they can count on the mainstream media to expose it to the public … however, in this case, most of the mainstream media is in the tank for Obama … so, they either look the other way, or they make phony biased excuses to mischaracterize, and cover up what’s really happening.
Comment by Gina — September 18, 2008 @ 2:31 pm - September 18, 2008
Gina - Rush Limbaugh has remarked that Obama’s tactics, dating from his run for the Illinois state senate, are to “clear the field” by any means necessary.
Mitchell - If the Secret Service did have better intel gathering, 4th Amendment issues would arise (and the lefties would then claim that Bush was eavesdropping on citizens).
The SS or FBI should have no problem getting warrants for this information since a felony was committed. If the AP wants to hold out then a judge could put someone in jail for contempt.
I doubt the AP has much useful info, though… the interesting info would come from Yahoo!, any proxy sites, and local ISPs.
I’d really like to see some people do prison time for this (and I’d think the same if it were Barry’s or Biden’s email that was stolen).
Comment by SoCalRobert — September 18, 2008 @ 8:20 pm - September 18, 2008
That is: To clear the field instead of levelling the playing field.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — September 18, 2008 @ 11:40 pm - September 18, 2008
Again, there’s no law per se against a private citizen gathering evidence; people do things everyday for which they might be held to account. Not that Governor Palin is among them. I’d expect to find nothing incriminating, but the attack on Sarah Palin’s privacy is inexcusable. Citizens do have rights, the right to be secure in their papers among them. Due to the electronic medium, the Palin case should be groundbreaking. For the less technologically inclined: whenever one’s cell phone is switched on, not necessarily making a call, just turned on, even if it’s not a GPS enabled device, it emits a signal that anyone who knows your SIM card number may track with an array of inexpensive software. GOOGLE GPS tracking devices. The phone’s speaker can also be remotely activated for use as a listening device. Perhaps you’re wondering, as did I, how certain individuals seem to know your whereabouts, or manage to show up when and where they do. High tech devices lend the good, the bad & the ugly a level of sophistication hitherto unimagined. Cell phone option: remove battery when not in use: http://theseedsof9-11.com
Comment by Peggy McGilligan — September 18, 2008 @ 11:57 pm - September 18, 2008
Bush already has the authority to wiretap and liberals already complain about it. But intel is one of the main purposes of organizations like the SS. How are they going to know when the president may be in danger? The fact is this was published online and gained a lot of media attention, so they should have been on top of it.
Comment by Mitchell Blatt — September 19, 2008 @ 2:17 am - September 19, 2008