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Son of Democratic Politician Indicted for Hacking Palin's E-mail
October 08, 2008 10:44 AM
David C. Kernell, 20, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Knoxville, Tenn., for "intentionally accessing without authorization the e-mail account of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin," the Justice Department says.
Kernell's father is Tennessee State Rep. Mike Kernell, a Democrat.
Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division, and U.S. Attorney James R. Dedrick for the Eastern District of Tennessee, announced today that Kernell turned himself in to federal authorities for arrest and will be arraigned today before U.S. Magistrate Judge C. Clifford Shirley.
The indictment states that, on approximately Sept. 16, 2008, Kernell "obtained unauthorized access" to Palin’s personal e-mail account by allegedly resetting the account password.
Kernell then allegedly read her e-mails and made screenshots of the e-mail directory, e-mail content and other personal information and, per the indictment, posted screenshots of the e-mails and other personal information to a public Web site.
Kernell, if convicted, faces five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and a three-year term of supervised release.
- jpt
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I believe the evil and genius Hacker, Kernell doesn't have connection with Obama. I, however, do believe that Kernell's father is Tennessee State Rep. Mike Kernell, a Democrat who is extreamly radical supporter for Obama influenced for his son to act something negatively against McCain/Palin/GOP.
Always extreamly radical groups and persons have made a huge problems:
ACON-Voter Fraud in OH, 2008, AL-Quada-
mess murder against 3,000 innocent American on Sept. 11, Bill Ayers,
AL-Mansour Saudi Radical Islamic Money-
Obama is a smart and good speaker only. Obama has firmly built up a sticky realationship with the radical groups and persons in domestic and Islamic countries. He is not ready to lead American.
Posted by: Janet -NY | Oct 9, 2008 10:48:52 AM
I warned of this mess months ago in the state of TN we have Dem gov. Bredsen, two GOP US senators, five of nine US reps. are dem, and we barely own the stae house and state senate is tied and by state law the Lt. Gov is the senate majority leader, it will be a rout on Dem in our state because of the leaders in Washington they forgot the down ballot races in indivdual state the GOP organization at the local, county, and state levels, makes it easy for GOP to pick off our rural Dem brothers, I blame the Superdelegates for this mess they never had a thought out plan from the outset for increasing the majority, by the law of unintended consquences we have broken the democrat beyond repair, in 2010 if Obama wins dems lose, if Mccain dems lose, not at the national level but where it matters most at the local level which produces the national leaders down the road. I have warned my fellow democrats time and time again but yet nobody listening if there any really smart dems out there watch your state dems dissappear in the future.
Posted by: QT of Chattanooga | Oct 9, 2008 4:03:07 AM
a crime is a crime. there shouldn't be partisan judgment on it.
give him a couple years in jail, and the same for the other guy who broke into Palin's account with the info he obtained from Kernell. the people at 4chan should learn a good lesson.
Posted by: epicuriosu | Oct 8, 2008 8:16:15 PM
What he did was wrong. It becomes serious because it was an effort to create harm or change in public perception in a campaign for national office.
I am a supporter of McCain/Palin.
I'm also, like Governor Palin, a mom. Despite the relative seriousness of the matter - because she is a VP candidate - nonetheless, this is a 20 year old man who did no real harm or damage.
Slap him on the wrists, put him on probation, and send that young man home!!
Everyone has been young and done something that could been of better judgment. Governor Palin's own son, if I recall, broke onto a school bus or something.
My son did similar things.
They had better not make a "federal case" out of this. Oh, guess they did. lol
Just don't give the young man a hard time and DON'T GIVE HIM ANY JAIL TIME!!
That, imo, would be ridiculous. And very unforgiving... and not recognizing he's just a young man who basically did a prank that blew up in his face.
A little mercy would seem the right thing to me.
Posted by: laura d | Oct 8, 2008 7:53:29 PM
Dude, man I'm sorry. I think he was just trying to do everyone a favor and trying to make Palin be known (since she really wasn't being very transparent). But dude, sorry you had to get caught and had to go down. Way to take one for the team. And at least you had the #### to do the real investigation into "who" this woman was. No one knew her, or knew what she was about. So sorry you had to go down like this.
Posted by: lkinopflo | Oct 8, 2008 7:00:39 PM
America is very lucky because you never ever didn’t know what it is Socialism and Communism. I’m from former Soviet Union. I don’t know more terrible, humiliation country, where only leader is right and smart, where doesn’t have any kind of freedom. Many things from Obama’s company remained me stile of former Soviet Union. But looks like we will know what that is Socialism. I know, you won’t publish my e-mail, but everybody should think about this. Sorry, my English isn’t good.
Posted by: former soviet | Oct 8, 2008 5:13:24 PM
The max they're going to get on this guy is less than 6 months jail and a $1000 fine. The act they charged him under doesn't apply.
If it was her email account on a government server, it could have been a terrorism charge under the Patriot Act. It doesn't qualify under the Stored Data Act because the emails weren't unread and they were on the ISP server not her machine. It is only a misdemeanor under the only remaining law that could apply.
What a waste of law enforcement. Trumped up charges hoping they can force him to cut a deal.
Posted by: Mike | Oct 8, 2008 5:08:35 PM
When this whole dumb campaign began, I saw a young African/American black man say on t.v.
"I know who I gonna vote for since day one".
well, I guess we all know WHY OBAMA, AND NOT McCAIN IS leading in the polls, but what goes around..... will also come around sooner or later.
Signed,
an early retired European/American white woman.
Posted by: Piza Pie | Oct 8, 2008 4:56:58 PM
Election Day = Bradley Effect
Posted by: HIguy | Oct 8, 2008 4:33:43 PM
Daniel Larison:
Naturally, many of those core supporters are upset that McCain did not launch the attacks that they think are so powerful, but what they might consider is that the fact that McCain deliberately avoided using them should tell you something about how truly weak they are. After all, McCain has shown he has no compunctions about smearing Obama and lying about the records of his opponents; McCain wants to win, and he clearly despises Obama. So if attacking Obama on his associations was an effective tactic, McCain would have done it with the same gusto he showed when belittling Obama’s alleged lack of understanding of foreign affairs. That does not seem to be the lesson that many of his supporters are going to take away from last night. Instead, they are going to adopt something like Vietnam revisionism in which they express certainty that their candidate could have won if he’d just been willing to do whatever was necessary.
Posted by: mccain's honor | Oct 8, 2008 4:02:52 PM
Wasn't it Richard Daley, once mayor of Chicago, who said "Vote early and often"? BHO listened, and sent out his ACORN troops to make it happen. Typical corrupt Chicago politician. "Judge not by the color of a man's skin but by the contact of his character".
Posted by: tom beebe | Oct 8, 2008 3:53:32 PM
Indy , good now youll know your kids will be paying for BUSHES and McCains DE REGULATION
Posted by: scvlptr | Oct 8, 2008 3:51:37 PM
I'm glad to see that McCain is "outing" his relationship with Ayers today. He claims to be endorsed by 100 former ambassadors, including Leonore Annenberg. She wasn't an ambassador (fudging the truth, McCain?) but her late husband was. But she did start the Annenberg Foundation. Right the one that Ayers and Obama both sat on the board for. Obviously McCain is a big fan, and doesn't care that she has such "dangerous terrorists" on her board.
Posted by: obamamama | Oct 8, 2008 3:23:39 PM
"And I remember very well about Ayers and Bobby Rush who called themselves the Chicago 7. There were five more including Ayers wife Bernadine."
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Nonono. NONE of that.
Bobby Rush is the Black Panther whom Obama first tried to unseat in Chicago -- pre-Axelrod/Ayers -- and lost, two to one TO Rush.
It was Bobby SEALE who was among the Chicago Seven. Dohrn was NOT.
Look up Chicago 7 in Wikipedia or somewhere. Confusing people doesn't help.
Posted by: Belle Starr | Oct 8, 2008 3:13:00 PM
len: Maybe he can join Rezko in prison. They are both crooked. And a democratic lawmaker's son on top of that. I wonder what Obama thinks of that. Probably nothing since he had close ties to a bomber himself. And I remember very well about Ayers and Bobby Rush who called themselves the Chicago 7. There were five more including Ayers wife Bernadine. They were all anti-american hating this country for the Vietnam war. Of course, President Kennedy was the first to send 25,000 troops over to Vietnam which he should not have done. After Kennedy died and Johnson took over he sent 250,000 there. Kennedy made the first mistake and secondly Johnson should have taken the troops out of there and let them fight their own battles. However, that didn't give Ayers the right to bomb government buildings. And Obama knew everything about him and they are neighbors and you know what that means.
Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | Oct 8, 2008 3:06:14 PM
Sarah Palin is like Anna Nicole Smith. She was a nobody until this old man picked her up and showed her the world. And now look how happy she is! All those winks and smiles! She doesn't care that they're losing the race because she knows one way or another the old man will be out of her way soon and she'll get to keep all the fame. Way to go, Sarah Nicole.
Posted by: Rick | Oct 8, 2008 3:05:28 PM
WATCH THE DOUBLE STANDARD NOW. PLEASE EVERY ONE, FOLLOW THIS CASE WEATHER YOU BE A REP. OR DEM. Let's see if there is equal justice under the law.
Posted by: bombem | Oct 8, 2008 3:00:19 PM
geevill: I believe it was set up for him to do that by the Obama supporter's so Obama's advisor's could find out all the formation regarding the campaign. That's the democrat dogs for you. But the democrats have always been dirty for many many years. I live in Chicago, born and raised her as a democrat and I know what goes on. I am voting for McCain because I couldn't find myself voting for a candidate with a racial anti-american white hating background and going to an anti-american church for 20 years. I know all about Ayers and his bombing and the disrpution of the democratic convention in 1968 by him and Bobby Rush another radical who is now deceased. Why the judge threw the charges agains Ayers out the window is very rare for what damage he did. Ayers is not a true American of this country and should have spent at least 25 years in jail. Three people were killed in that bombing and he said he should have done more. That's the close friend of Obama's who donated large amouts of money to his campaign when he was running for the senate. Obama was at his house many times for dinner and they were both co-chairman together. Obama is involved with Acorn who registers fake voters and just got caught in Las Vegas, NV. There are nine more offices to go. American voters need to wake up before its too late.
Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | Oct 8, 2008 2:58:02 PM
If Obama's personal e-mail was hacked into you would find thank you's to Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko and all his Acorn supporters who created false voters to vote for him.
Posted by: susie | Oct 8, 2008 2:53:47 PM
This kid is the son of a huge Democratic supporter of OBAMA....what a surprise the word CRIMINAL comes up so often with the Obama campaign.
NEVER OBAMA, EVER.
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN/PALIN
Posted by: hanna | Oct 8, 2008 2:51:01 PM
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