Chicago (IL) - Rick Davis, lobbyist in chief for John McCain, described the hacking of Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account as “shocking invasion” in the Governor’s privacy. The FBI confirmed that it is looking into the matter, while Palin cannot prevent the events from turning into a huge mess as it appears that the Governor of Alaska conducted state business using her private email account.
"This is a shocking invasion of the Governor's privacy and a violation of law," Davis said in a statement and noted that "the matter has been turned over to the appropriate authorities and we hope that anyone in possession of these e-mails will destroy them. We will have no further comment."
Yesterday, a hacker group named Anonymous took credit for hacking into the email account and publicizing screenshots, picturesd and other data from Palin’s Yahoo account. An index of the e-mails contained in Sarah Palin’s inbox include the sender, the subject line, and the date and time the e-mail was sent also indicates that Palin was in fact receiving e-mail from her aides and some of them indicated that she in fact used the account for certain messages relating to official business.
FBI spokesman Brian Hale today said that "the FBI is aware of the alleged hacking incident involving Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and is coordinating with the United States Secret Service on the matter."
Among the emails were an e-mail from her press secretary Meghan Stapleton, with the subject line “Motor Fuel Tax Suspension”. Additionally, an e-mail from Randall Ruaro, Palin’s deputy chief of staff was titled “Draft letter to Governor Schwarzenegger”; another from Ruaro also said “Please approve” and a third had the subject line “Court of Appeals Nominations”.
There were e-mails in her inbox that are believed to be about different budget and employee issues with the Alaska Department of Public Safety.
There were e-mails from Janice Mason, Palin’s schedule coordinator that indicated they were in regards to Palin’s schedule during the week of August 10th.
Michael Nizich, Palin’s chief of staff sent her e-mails on August 22, using the subject “Using Royalty Oil to Lower the Cost of Fuel for Alaskans”, and on another date sent her an e-mail titled “Confidential Ethics Matter”.
The fact that Governor Plain used her private email account to discuss state matters, will obviously raise eyebrows and questions whether there was the need to hide any information from the public. Whether this was or was not the case, it is somewhat obvious that the hackers may not remain the only ones being investigated. It is already a PR disaster and somehow we believe that this mess cannot be cleaned up anytime soon.
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