Court Rules That Palin Must Save Yahoo Emails

quarterbuck writes "An Anchorage judge has ruled that Governor Sarah Palin must save her emails, as they were apparently used for state business. Last week a Tennessee man was arrested over hacking one of her Yahoo email accounts. The Washington Post also reports that Sarah Palin, her husband, and officials had set up email accounts known only to each other."

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[Bicx]

She should just go with Gmail. Google will save her information whether she likes it or not.

Sooper secret email address !!! omgroflcopter!!1

[gandhi_2]

She set up email addresses known only to her husband? How heinous!

The super-secret one that got haxored? [e-mail]

Will the right-wing treachery know no bounds?

Saving the emails is irrelevant

[GISGEOLOGYGEEK]

Why would Palin care to delete any emails, or even try to hide them?

Palin is a young earth creationist. She has no understanding of Evidence.

great

[nomadic]

Now can the Court issue an injunction barring her from using that ridiculously fake and obnoxious accent?

Re:great

[commodoresloat]

Oh you betcha they can!

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Oh my

[FornaxChemica]

Sarah Palin, her husband, and officials had set up email accounts known only to each other.

[e-mail]

I wonder if...

[Brad1138]

that's what McCain meant by "Fellow Prisoners" [youtube.com]?

Re:Why is this bad?

[thetoadwarrior]

Gee golly, that stuff about Guantanamo Bay just didn't need to be known for us honest simple god loving folk. Gosh darnit learning about water boarding has put our country at risk!

Hopefully we'll get good old secret police to operate on their own terms and put this here country back in shape.

Re:Taking one for the team.

[Danse]

My point was that it doesn't make a whole lot of difference if she was using the [e-mail] account for state business, because we already know she was using the other one for it. Whether it's either or both, she was circumventing the security and accountability of the state system.

Re:Saving the emails is irrelevant

[Anonymous Coward]

Those emails were put there by GOP to test our faith.

Re:Taking one for the team.

[Anonymous Coward]

there is no proof and you're all just going on hearsay and conjecture. Again, that's not how we operate in this country.

Iraqi WMDs?

Re:More reasons Palin isn't ready for VP...

[Creepy Crawler]

It's just like the tag-line for that bad movie- Alien vs. Predator [imdb.com].

Whoever wins, we lose.

Re:Taking one for the team.

[Anonymous Coward]

It's long been policy that government officials do not use non-government email and communications methods that circumvent the official logging of such communications. What she did was wrong, and in fact just as bad as the Whitehouse administration using non-whitehouse email services for official communications.

Though the guy who accessed her emails might be in trouble, I'd like to see a jury refuse to convict him. He should be seen as a whistleblower and protected, not prosecuted.

She hasn't even been elected to the Whitehouse yet and she has shown herself to be full of ineptitude and corruption. He is a hero in my book.

Let me guess--you're not a Republican....

Re:Taking one for the team.

[iminplaya]

She happens to be an employee of the people of Alaska....If she doesn't like that, she can go work somewhere else.

Washington D.C. maybe?

Re:Saving the emails is irrelevant

[philspear]

As a young earth creationist, I'm offended and also confused by all those words.

Re:Taking one for the team.

[ColdWetDog]

Dah, comrade, our evil plan to take over America is almost complete! Mwahahaha!

OK, it's yours.

Now what, smartypants?

Re:Taking one for the team.

[fishbowl]

>"why doesn't he wear a flag pin?"

I wouldn't stick a pin in the lapel of a $1600 Brooks Brothers suit either.

Re:Taking one for the team.

[uberjack]

I could've sworn it was [e-mail] - are your sources accurate?

The GOP has been testing my faith...

[gillbates]

And my patience for the last 8 years. I don't need any emails for that.

Re:Taking one for the team.

[2short]

"she is an ordinary citizen as well as a public office holder"

Yes, and if the emails pertain only to her acting as an "ordinary citizen", she doesn't have to keep them. If the emails pertain to official government business, which some of them clearly do, she is required by law to keep them.

The normal procedure would be to use her state-provided email for all official business, and something else for personal stuff. This keeps everything nicely segregated. The fact she has not done this could mean that she is intentionally evading the law, or that she is an idiot; but one should not jump to conclusions and neglect the possibility of both.

Re:Taking one for the team.

[innocent_white_lamb]

I can: John Smith, Mary Smith and James Johnson. (Should be at least 200,000 of each of those.)