The point of the leaked Palin email account is that she was caught using and conspiring to use personal email accounts for government business. All the stuff about Feds catching the “thieves” is bullshit. She should know better. The state of Alaska pays people to insure that email is private. She threw out that work and money. Dumb. Irresponsible. And now caught.
Will the story focus on her actions or the hackers? If it focuses on her, then other elected government officials will stop or slow down this illegal activity. If it focuses on the hackers, then she was acting correctly and the problem was the hackers and officials will be encouraged to break the law knowing the FBI will not come after them, as it should, but after the hackers.
I think that since she used her email account for government business, it should be given over the the lawsuits against her seeking information about her actions in the 2 short years she has be gov. That also means much of her two years becomes public due to the lawsuits. She opened the door.
on Gawker