Indictment For Palin Email Hacker
David Kernell, the now infamous 20-year-old hacker who got access into Sarah Palin’s private email account, has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
Kernell is the son of the Democratic chairperson of Tennessee’s House Government Operations Committee.
The A.P. reports:
Kernell, an economics major at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, faces a maximum of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and a three-year term of supervised release.
What kind of emails is David Kernell sending around that made him think that a 44-year old woman would have anything newsworthy in her email account? She’s a grandmother. Did he really think that Palin would use email to send around scandalous photos?
Five years and $250,000 seems like the right price to pay for such rank stupidity.
Lawmaker’s son indicted in Palin e-mail hacking [A.P.]
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No way this kid goes to jail... this is just to scare him.
"Five years and $250,000 seems like the right price to pay for such rank stupidity. "
I guess you never practiced, huh, Elie. Unless you count at being a blogger.
LOL at calling this guy a hacker?
Even retarded "hackers" know to use a foreign proxy and spoofed MAC address when "hacking."
Of course there's not going to be anything too embarassing in Palin's e-mail. Who did this guy think she was, mayor of Detroit?
I suspect he will plea bargain for a fine and parole. Maybe spending 30 days of his summer break in the pen. No point in giving a college kid 5 years for a dumb stunt.
First to say this is more thuggery from the rightwingers in power.
Elie,
5 years and $250,000 isn't what this kid's going to get. Under the sentencing guidelines he'll probably get probation and no jail time assuming he's got a clean record otherwise.
You might know this if you bothered to learn about the law.
"Five years and $250,000 seems like the right price to pay for such rank stupidity. "
This blog officially jumped the shark.
lol at Elie for suggesting he deserves 5 years in federal prison and a quarter million dollar fine.
by that standard bill clinton and scooter libby should've gotten life!
College students have a long history of being harassed by the police and treated unfairly by our nation's thiny vieled anti-intellectual drug policy.
We should let this kid commit two murders, be set free by a majority college-aged jury, and then celebrate his acquittal as a triumph over "the man."
Palin isnt a grandmother yet you idiot. Terrible job.
15: She is if you believe that Trig is actually Bristol's kid. But really, how much about human reproduction did you expect Elie to know?
The rumor was that Palin and her advisers were using personal e-mail accounts so that they could send messages about state matters that would not be released if FOIA requests were made for their official accounts. So perhaps this hacker thought he could find something that would derail the campaign.
15 - I guess Elie buys into the theory that Trig is really Sarah's grandson...
"a 44-year old woman" ...
you do know she's the VP candidate for Republicans... right?
"anything newsworthy" ... "scandalous photos"
are you kidding me? of course there was huge potential for things newsworthy. and no, he didn't think there would be photos. photos are not the only thing that can be scandalous. the candid words and thoughts of politicians can be scandalous, believe or not.
Elie, you need to spend less time reading TMZ and more time reading NYT, WaPo, WSJ, etc.
I haven't commented on how poorly Elie has done, but its really starting to get to me now. This blog is just shit compared to what it used to be.
5 years and $250,000 is the statutory max. The guidelines range will be much lower.
To give Elie credit, this is a mistake plenty of lawyers make. Only federal prosecutors and criminal defense lawyers really have reason to understand the sentencing guidelines.
"rank stupidity"? If this had been a GOP operative's son hacking into Biden's email I suspect that Elie would come up with a much harsher assessment of the motivations. Perhaps something along the typical conspiracy theories the left loves to throw out when attacking the GOP.
I will definately vote for McCain now that I realize the son of the TN Democratic operative is behind this illegal hacking of Palin's illegal use of personal accounts for state business.
It should be "44-year-old woman" not "44-year old woman ."
And, wtf, a 44-year-old female vice presidential candidate can't have anything "newsworthy" in her email? I hate you, Elie.
15, she IS a grandmother if, as she believes, life begins at conception.
what do obama and bin laden have in common???????????????????????????
If the NY Times had done this they would have been called journalists...
25, excellent point!
Also, the tone of this story is a result of Elie caving into the criticisms about being too liberal and trying too hard in the other direction. And it shows.
BOTH HAVE FRIENDS WHO BOMBED THE PENTAGON
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Palin brought this on herself by openly communicating to her staff the expectation that they could avoid public scrutiny of their official communication if the conducted that official communication under their private email accounts.
MysTTTal
I was wondering how this piece could be used as proof of Elie's liberal bias. Thanks, 22!
Lock this idiot up for the max.
What law is he being charged under?
There were some interesting emails in there actually, however, the kid gave away the account info on 4chan so some buzzkill decided to tell yahoo the account was compromised.
This guy was not even close to a hacker. He figured out that that dumb bitch used her zip code as her recovery hint. Palin should be indicted for violating transparency by using a personal Yahoo e-mail account for government business. Any discovery experts want to chime in on how that would be affected?
My God you guys are idiots. Elie was clearly joking. Lighten up a bit fellas.
Pssssst, I intercepted a scroll carried by one of John McCain's messenger pigeons last night...stay tuned.
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i has haxed ur email but i did not eated it
i upgraded ur ram, so i can has cheezburger? if no, iz okay, I can has veep nominayshun insted
Palin's e-mails did contain one revealing tidbit: she was in the process of falling for a Nigerian scam. Now THAT's a foreign policy credential I haven't heard mentioned.
Condition precedent for liability on the sec. 1030(c)(2)(B)(ii) charge:
"the offense was committed in furtherance of any criminal or tortious act in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States or of any State; "
What was the other act the "hacking" was in furtherance of?
MAYBE SHE WILL CHANGE THE LEGAL AGE FOR DRINKING SNCE IT APPEARS THE THE CHILDREN IN HER FAMILY ARE ALLOWED TO DRINK LIQUOR
MAYBE SHE WILL CHANGE THE LEGAL AGE FOR DRINKING SNCE IT APPEARS THAT THE CHILDREN IN HER FAMILY ARE ALLOWED TO DRINK LIQUOR
maybe she will change the legal age for drinking since it appears that the children in her family are allowed to drink liquor
"What kind of emails is David Kernell sending around that made him think that a 44-year old woman would have anything newsworthy in her email account?"
Elie, come on! Don't you think that politicians may have work-related information in their mail accounts and that this information may be newsworthy, because politicians' work is newsworthy?!
I hope that Kernell, and all future hackers, get the max.