First, I would like to state I do not approve that a persons personal email attack was hacked and think that is a severe violation of privacy. However, Governor Palin, just like GW used her personal yahoo email account to conduct official business so there would be no record of it. My sources:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
So my question is this, do you think Governor Palin and other members of our Government should be allowed to use their personal email accounts for official business?
Personally, I think using her personal Yahoo email account to conduct official government business is a violation of public record laws and it is shows how Palin, McCain are just like Bush and Cheney. These Public Record Laws are there for a reason and no one should be above the law!
There should be some form of punishment for this! This is why I encourage everyone to vote for Ron Paul! What do you think?
If McCain and Palin try and dance out of this one, then I will do more then vote for Ron Paul - I will change my party affiliation to independent.
Palins personal email account for official Government Business?some of you need to go find the screen shots that resulted from the hacks. There was a list of the emails in her in box, and some of them were indeed government business! Not that it makes the hacking of the account legal or ethically justified. Still, she does need to be held accountable for her actions as well.
Her use of the two Yahoo accounts, well at least one of them, was used to violate the laws regarding transparency in government. There are a few articles out on the web that discuss that her staff knowingly started to use this procedure to specifically get around the law. One of them has sort of blown the whistle on the group as a whole.
As for now turning around a giving my vote to a man whose opinions I don't agree with? I guess you are assuming that I'm not happy with my current plan, huh?
(btw, that time article is brilliant and puts the issue so clearly. also note that deleting the email accounts does not mean they can't be called up, Yahoo keeps backups of everything by law. http://www.time.com/time/politics/articlPalins personal email account for official Government Business?Cheney and Rove did this for years in the White House. They used RNC email accounts for official White House business.
More of the same. Palins personal email account for official Government Business?It was an attempt to dodge the disclosure rules. So much for the %26quot;transparency%26quot; Palin claims to support.Palins personal email account for official Government Business?There is nothing to %26quot;dance%26quot; out of. They were all personal emails. The only email even remotely connected to her job was one to the Lt. Governor lamenting the treatment of the press. Hardly, %26quot;government%26quot; business...... get you facts straight BEFORE you post!Palins personal email account for official Government Business?I agree - hacking an email account is a federal crime and those responsible should be prosecuted.
As should Palin for the various ethical and legal violations she has committed.Palins personal email account for official Government Business?there was no government information available! Color it anyway you personally wish, the bottom line is it is a felony and the creep is probably a damn liberalPalins personal email account for official Government Business?Nice lie.
Can you say WATERGATE? Obama will forever more be linked to Nixon!
This is as big a lie as the so-called 'troopergate' hoax and don't forget the anonymous waitress named Lucille!
You little jerks better NEVER leave Mommy's basement else us Americans will do you in!Palins personal email account for official Government Business?In this day and age is any device %26quot;pure%26quot; one way or the other? For example don't you have work and personal stuff on your email, laptop, cell phone, etc, etc.
Dems - they'll dig for dirt on Palin but they won't dig for oil.Palins personal email account for official Government Business?John McCain has launched an inquiry to find out what %26quot;email%26quot; is .
Palins personal email account for official Government Business?Hacking e-mail is a federal crime. A TV anchor who broke into his colleague檚 e-mail account recently pleaded guilty and faces a maximum five years in prison.
The law will catch up to the hackers, but what about the lowlifes who are now gleefully splashing the alleged contents of Palin檚 private e-mail account all over the Internet?
The Gawker smear machine ?see here for all the background you need ?has posted private family photos of Palin檚 children that were apparently stolen from the e-mail account.
They have used Bristol Palin檚 illegally obtained private cell phone number from her mom檚 private account, recorded her voicemail message, and posted it on their website.
They have reprinted her husband Todd檚 private e-mail address and son Track檚 private e-mail address.
You think this is just a harmless prank? Those of you who have had to deal with break-ins and identity theft know exactly what a burdensome process it is to recover from crimes like this.
Gawker knowingly and deliberately published illegally obtained photos of the Palin children.
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/17/sarPalins personal email account for official Government Business?Don't forget to scrub your fingernails when you're done scraping. The bottoms of them barrells are notoriously dirty.
Now, we dance!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ub7f687tPalins personal email account for official Government Business?You're right. Personal e-mail accounts should not be used for state business. Those documents should remain in the system as a matter of public record. Besides that, using an outside e-mail source, particularly a web-based one, is a security risk. We've obviously just seen the consequences of that.
What if, God forbid, this woman actually was Vice-President? Sensitive information could be easily culled from her yahoo account. Not very responsible of her to leave herself so vulnerable.Palins personal email account for official Government Business?I didn't see ANY e-mails of hers that were striclty OFFICIAL business being used on her private account. Palins personal email account for official Government Business?Check out this time magazine article about how Palin had 2 personal email accounts and one was wiped out after it was discovered by troopergate investigators and it is possible they will include an obstruction of justice charge as well!!http://www.time.com/time/politics/articlPalins personal email account for official Government Business?They are hypocrites
there should be some form of punishment....but there wont be they can pretty much do whatever they want
bush will pardon them...Palins personal email account for official Government Business?You have it backwards genius. One shouldn't use a Government account for personal email. Try and find something important to tie yourself into a knot over. If you don't want to vote Republican, then don't. You don't have to make them out to be evil, just as being a Democrat doesn't make one evil. Maybe you're evil. I don't know. Just relax man. Palins personal email account for official Government Business?I, as a member of the public, should have access to all emails for politicians who conduct government business.
However, this seems to be a habit with palin, to try and sneak around the back with potentially embarrasisng actions (is the baby hers or Bristol's? Did she really ask that librarian to censor books? When did she finally decide to kill the Bridge to Nowhere?)Palins personal email account for official Government Business?So far...all the email that have been released publicly online have been of a PERSONAL nature. There has been NOTHING even politically damaging. Why do you ppl all think you have to jump the gun with your smears and attacks. The woman was violated in a very nasty way, and all of a sudden the left smear machine starts in and trys to turn it around AGAIN on her. TypicalPalins personal email account for official Government Business?There was nothing %26quot;official business%26quot; in these emails! They were all personal. Just because someone is on your staff doesnt mean that everything you say to them is business. I have mostly my whole offices personal e-mail address and they have mine. So what??They were regular chit chat messages between friends. I'm sure that if she used the government e-mail address for these types of messages you would be bitching about her wasting taxpayer resources.
Regardless of who or how or why, retrieving someones e-mail without their permission is a federal crime!! Not only that but posting the contents, and pictures of her family to the internet is absolutely disgusting! I dont care if you like her or not, all Americans have the same rights. If her e-mail was under suspicion by someone they would have to go about the proper channels to get access. Stealing and taking the law into your own hands is never right. If everybody just handed out what they thought someone else deserved we would really be in a clusterf*ck.
I hope whoever did this gets prosecuted.Palins personal email account for official Government Business?Not only did she use her personal email address-she picked easy to identify addresses (govsarah and govpalin) then is surprised that hackers %26quot;found%26quot; her? And the Republicans are claiming that Obama supporters hacked her account while the hackers are still unknown?
The media has been used by the McCain campaign with faked outrage and outrageous distortions of the facts. This is to keep the true issues from being discussed intelligently-The economy and the Iraq/Afghanistan wars and the proposed war with Iran. The media is beginning to realize how they have been played. I hope the public wakes up to.
The media is getting wise to these tactics as stated in a Times-CNN Report:
%26quot;By the weekend, many news organizations had mounted a backlash of their own, running prominent pieces accusing the self-branded %26quot;straight-talking%26quot; McCain of deceiving voters. %26quot;The 'Straight-Talk Express' has detoured into doublespeak,%26quot; announced the Associated Press, while the New York Times blared, %26quot;McCain Barbs Stirring Outcry as Distortions.%26quot;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp
As for Palin-her own distortions are beginning to surface-Her claim to have gone to Iraq? Countered by those controlling the boarder-she came to the boarder but did not enter. Her claim to have been to Ireland? Her plane landed for refueling-she did not get off that plane. That she oversaw 20% of the domestic fuel supply? In reality 3% to 7 % of the supply.Palins personal email account for official Government Business?Didn't see any official government business in her emails. I do find it a little odd that after the Dem's sent 30 lawyers to Alaska to investigate her records, etc. that her email was hacked. This smells to high heaven. *** Palins personal email account for official Government Business?Nice question! I am to understand that there is no security when you use E-Mail. Then I was more sure when Bush opened up his new rules. So why ***** about it. The rules have changed and will not be different no matter who becomes President. Live with it!Palins personal email account for official Government Business?Didn't I read about this somewhere else last week...? Oh! That's right! It made the front page of the National Inquirer that I lined my bird cage with. The birds had no problem at all dumping excrement all over it because that's all it's full of! Perhaps IF people put down their beers and cigs, rolled off the couch and waddle out into society some time, they might learn some real factual news instead of taking the tabloids as gospel. Personally, I think that Governor Palin is the breath of fresh air that Americans desperately NEED but a few that are sponging off others are afraid that their free meal ticket is about to disappear. I'm praying hard for a McCain-Palin landslide to victory so that the changes will finally come about!Palins personal email account for official Government Business?I think that any judgment on this matter is moot since it was gained by illegal measures ... much of the 'official use' is speculation based simply on subject line.
McCain and Palin will undoubtedly continue to investigate the original wrongdoing and ignore any allegations based on the results of illegal activity as they should do. Any official investigation based on the information garnered via illegal activity which may well be doctored will be suspect and no honest court will even hear the case ... therefore, there is nothing for them to dance out of.
One last time for clarity ... screenshots are not official since they can be modified.Palins personal email account for official Government Business?I don't know what the public records law is for Alaska. I do know what they are for Florida. Basically, the Fl courts have held that while e-mails are public record, their useful record life is deemed to be only as needed. Therefore, e-mails can be deleted right away and not violate the public records law. Only if they are printed, saved, or backed-up, do they become a more perminate record. The line of reasoning for the court was that e-mails are no different than phone calls. I'm sure some public officials use their person telephone or cell phones for business too.
When I worked in local government, we had a server that went down and so we used our personal e-mail accounts. Did this create a public record? Technically yes, but under the law, the record need only be kept as long as it served value, to be determined by the party involved. Therefore, I deleted them.
No comments:
Post a Comment