AP reporter e-mails: Yeah, it’s all Palin’s fault
Just call them the Associated (With Hackers) Press.
A reader e-mailed AP reporter Ted Bridis yesterday after Bridis’s article on the Palin e-mail hacking disclosed that the AP was refusing to cooperate with the feds and suggested that Palin was to blame for the crime.
Bridis’s report states: “The Secret Service contacted The Associated Press on Wednesday and asked for copies of the leaked e-mails, which circulated widely on the Internet. The AP did not comply. The disclosure Wednesday raises new questions about the propriety of the Palin administration’s use of nongovernment e-mail accounts to conduct state business. The practice was revealed months ago — prior to Palin’s selection as a vice presidential candidate — after political critics obtained internal e-mails documenting the practice by some aides…”
Here’s the e-mail exchange:
—–Original Message—–
From:
Sent:
To: Bridis, Ted
Subject: Palin’s email theftHi,
You think that this story “raises questions” about *her* use of her own email? Questions from whom? You?
This isn’t really the point of the story. It appears that you are using the theft of the mail to put forth your own anit-Palin feelings. It’s a trend.
Perhaps you should tell us what happened, and not try to give us your opinion on what questions it raises. Alright?
Did the AP steal the mail? “Questions have been raised about whether the Associated Press stole Gov. Palin’s private email…”
And here’s the response my reader received from Bridis:
From: “Bridis, Ted” TBridis@ap.org
To:
Subject: RE: Palin’s email theftIf Gov. Palin hadn’t been using a consumer-level Yahoo! account (more than one, actually) this crime wouldn’t have happened because the hacker exploited the service’s “forgot-my-password” mechanism, which is inherently insecure.
Previously disclosed e-mails indicate her administration embraced Yahoo! Accounts, among other reasons, because of questions over whether personal e-mail accounts are covered under Alaska’s Open Records Act. Palin’s critics in Alaska were poring over records they had obtained from the governor’s office of official internal e-mail communications and causing political hay.
The issues are inextricably linked.
The AP publicized Palin’s other personal e-mail accounts, as well as her husband’s, which were derived from information obtained illegally by the hacker. Bridis says having Yahoo accounts is an open invitation for hackers and that the victims are to blame for invasions of privacy.
By refusing to cooperate with the federal investigation into the hacking crime and publicizing the Palins’ other personal Yahoo e-mail account information, the AP openly invited hackers to break into those family accounts as well and endorsed illicit activity to raid private family photos.
The issues are inextricably linked, to borrow a phrase, and raise questions about the propriety of AP’s continued flacking for Barack Obama under the guise of objective journalism.
***
Ace: “Even by the hacker’s account, and AP’s, there is no official business hidden in the emails. So what the f*** are they doing claiming that if she hadn’t illegally used private emails to hide state communications, the crime wouldn’t have happened?”
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What complete BS!!!
The hacker wanted her personal emails to find something embarassing. He wasn’t looking for the offical stuff. The crime happened because she was a candidate not because she used it for work-related emails.
I guess you have to be a moonbat to see how it’s linked.
I don’t see it.
He’ll only be getting one phone call, I believe!
ap is the official propagandist press, after all this is the source of all news outlets, the ap..
thank goodness for the new press!
If the victim hadn’t been wearing a skin-tight blouse, this crime wouldn’t have happened because the rapist exploited the blouse’s “zipper feature” which is inherently insecure.”
Got it, the victim is at fault.
Ya gotta love the liberal excuse on this: “She was dressed like she wanted it.”
Isn’t that like saying that if a carjacking victim hadn’t had a car, they wouldn’t have gotten carjacked?
Lets see-
The AP has been giving lots of positive press to bo, refuses to be objective in their coverage, refuses to admit that they were wrong for accepting illegal obtained e-mails, and refuses to comply with a Federal Investigation.
If they weren’t so pro-bo, they why didn’t they cooperate with the feds?
IMHO its because they were looking for a scandal, couldn’t find one and hense they don’t feel liable.
BTW-I am not a moonbat and have become convinced that there is no such thing as an objective media apart from our gracious hostess.
GSP
OMG!!! stop the presses!!! she uses a personal email account?! isn’t this illegal?!?!
IMPEACHMENT!!!
I say it again. If an Obama operative did this, then it’s Watergate.
“I am not a
Muslimcrook”.AP will definately be rallying around the kid as “the victim” of the situation.
If Gov. Palin hadn’t been using a short-length skirt (more than one, actually) this crime wouldn’t have happened because the rapist exploited the wardrobe’s “she-was-asking-for-it” motif, which is inherently insecure.
[End Sarcasm]
Well gosh,
If that bank only had a security guard at the entrance…
If I hadnt of parked my car on the street at night…
If that girl wouldnt have worn a mini-skirt that night…
How much further up Obama’s butt can the AP stick its nose?
They take illegally obtained information of a candidate, who is under Secret Service protection(I believe), and publish it?
Are they going to publish the same kind of information when they discover Obama’s love-child? NOT!
Supposing somebody randomly socked Bridis in the face, can we blame Bridis for being a smarmy jackass who invited the altercation upon himself?
Witholding evidence to a crime is a crime in and of itself. PROSECUTE !
On September 18th, 2008 at 7:06 pm, TMoney said:
Don’t be silly… Larry Sinclair is biologically incapable of giving birth.
Mr. Bridis is in possession of stolen property. Mr. Bridis then used the stolen property in his posession to facilitate and encourage the commission of further crimes. Neither the 1st nor 4th ammendments protect him from his crimes. His blatant injection of his opinions into the articles transform him from the realm of reporter to gossip columnist and so should further remove him from any protections afforded the press.
Add them to the scum pile.
Ted strikes me as the sort of guy who blames the victim whenever the victim is a Republican. Republican woman raped? She provoked it. Republican email hacked? She invited it.
Get used to it people….if Obama is elected, our country will become the socialist country the Liberals have been dreaming about.
And all of our e-mails will be government property….
A vote for McCain is a vote to protect America and our rights. It’s that simple.
I don’t want to hear a single Moonbat even again squeal about Bush listening in on phone conversations.
Know your Nazis – they’re sporting tin foil hats.
Tapping terrorist phones: Bad
Hacking Republican email accounts: Good.
Hey, Mr. Bridis, this ones for you:
Mark Twain
Yup, those banks have all of that money just laying around, so it definitely wasn’t Dillinger’s fault that he robbed them.
It’s time for the FBI and Secret Service to get search warrants on AP and investigate every AP source and all AP emails about Palin.
Then publicize the embarrassing parts in open court. They were asking for it.
at 6:59 pm, backwoods conservative said:
Good analogy. If I park my car overnight in downtown Boston with the engine running, the person who took it is still a thief. Gov. Palin had a lock on her account, someone picked the lock.
By any means necessary, remember?
Let’s suppose she had been using yahoo for government business (as there seems to be some evidence of).
What if, instead of some /b/ punk looking for gossip, it had been the Chinese government who hacked it?
I think there’s a word for that – gross negligence.
What crAP.
Let’s suppose she wasn’t, and the hacker is still the criminal. And you’re still an Obamaniac.
Well, it looks like we all have Mr. Bridis’ email address. We all could send him an email and tell him what we think of his attitude! Gosh darn it, I think I will!
Can we inextricably link Mr Bridis with an anchor and chuck him off a pier somewhere?
I assume it would not be unreasonable to let Mr Bridis know what we think of his organization’s reportage.
If AP reporters rationalized Republican “sins”….
I bet there’s some great netroot quotes out there about inappropriate access and that the fruits of that access should not be used politically.
Where’s this evidence? Or was Cap’N 4chan just merciful enough not to post screenshots of it during the shenanigans?
I wonder how long it will take before some slob on the left comes up with a real “stop the presses” defense of this asshat, such as… Well, at least he’s not having an illegitimate kid.
Hey! AP jackass . . . if a women is raped is that her fault also. You stupid bastard.
Rather than blowing me off, why don’t you respond to my concerns? Are you not worried about the security of electronic communications between government officials?
Oh, and I voted for Ron Paul (but that probably isn’t looked upon very kindly here either).
AP’s articles are been blatantly slanted and underscore the dignity of journalistic professionalism.
It makes me wonder if these people need psychiatric evaluation.
It is obvious the MSM is not going to regulate themselves, maybe we could throw in some regulations for the arrogant jerks that think they are above the law. Someone has got to do something about the corruption and dishonesty that is going on in the MSM. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
AP: Asshat Porcine
More disturbing is AP’s lack of cooperation with the authorities… who do they answer to?, the FCC??
It would depend on what level of government business she was doing. If it was just mundane tasks (asking an aide to file papers or something along those lines), then it’s not a concern. If it involved personnel records that had names, social security numbers, etc. then there is a problem. Right now, we don’t know what government business she was doing.
I’m not condoning the idea, but how would the press handle this story if it happened to Biden, Obama, Clinton, Pelosi, or Reid? I won’t speculate on what their private e-mails contain, because it’s none of my business. But it’s Palin’s fault cuz she’s stupid. Grow the hell up, AP.
I wonder how many Yahoo accounts are about to die… I prefer gmail myself.
Are those Obama “kneepads” only for female reporters? Regardless of whether Palin should or shouldn’t have been using the yahoo account, what in hell is an AP reporter doing arguing with a reader over the merits of that issue? The AP is a news-reporting agency, no? They have no business advocating one view over another. This Bridis guy is so in the tank for Obama it’s scary.
Here’s some
Mr. Bridis needs to get backbone, a conscience, and some stones. Had his email been read by the government without a warrant, he’d be screaming from the mountain-tops about violation of his rights.
But when a conservative has their rights violated by a criminal liberal (isn’t that two of the same thing?) he says it’s the conservative’s fault. Uh, NO! Maybe the criminal liberal shouldn’t have violated the law in the first place! Maybe? Ya think?
Excuse me. I made the erroneous assumption that a liberal would think. My bad.
“Ignore the Angry Left”
The nitwits are as bad as truthers.
It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!!
McCain/Palin 08′
Image: libs are losers.
Ted Bridis is just an Obama operative pretending to be a reporter.
bluesoc,
In regard to your Chinese hacker question, is there any evidence that she used her Yahoo email for sensitive communications, you know, anything related to the Alaska National Guard, or dirt that could be used for blackmail, or financial dealings with Canada that the Chicoms could use in our economic war.
Perhaps Gov. Palin was circumspect enough to keep sensitive communications on a more secure medium, or strictly in person.
Additionally, there is a justification for the Governor to keep a Yahoo account for work related communications such as when she needs to talk to her subordinates about elections and fund raising for her or her allies. Campaign related work is normally not to be done on government property otherwise it gives the incumbent an advantage.
bluesoc, you can vote for anyone you like. Unlike liberals, we here are inclusive. We’re the Republicans. We’re the ones that freed the slaves and made sure they could vote, too. So, vote as wish.
They’re no longer journalists or reporters. They are propagandists that would make Joseph Goebbels proud. The state no longer needs to control the press – the press gladly bends knee and serves the state.
That isn’t evidence, it’s conjecture.
I cannot wait for the AP to go bankrupt.
O.K., I’ll play the AP game. It’s all Al Gore’s fault. Had he not invented the internet this never would have happened.
Of course it is. But you have to read the liberal dictionary to under the words.
Conjecture: (n) To make an accurate conclusion from factual evidence. See, Distortion.
Distortion: (n) To give a clear and accurate description of a person, position, or event.
I think this would qualify as evidence.
Or one of Mr. Bridis’ family members?
Please, nooooooo…there goes more of my tax dollars for a federal bailout.
Of what?
bluesoc is a paulieboy? I would have thought he fit better in the Kucinich mold.
So now frustrated paulies are obamadroids? Seems like a logical connection….neither is firmly based in reality.
So now if you question something Michelle writes, you are an obamadroid?
Upon reading that, a reasonable person might conclude that Bailey was expected to have sent that email to Palin’s personal (yahoo) account. Appointments are pretty clearly government business, thus providing evidence that she was using her yahoo account to conduct government business.
Two problems ace. First – “I think”, which is obviously not the case, and second, it is only evidence of the NYT’s bias agaist Gov. Palin, as they are the bastion of liberal self-righteousness that all libs and lib wannabes rally around and point to for “the truth.”
Given enough time and money, the NYT could find dirt on Mother Teresa if they thought it would enhance their standing with the lib fringe or maybe move their balance sheets from a pleasing burgundy color to maybe a white zin tint…..
Now don’t go away mad and with hurt feelings. Just go away.
bluesoc,
You’ll have to help me because I can’t find it. Who is the source for this incriminating email from Frank Bailey? Is there an actual copy of the email floating around? Or is this all 3rd hand from some anonymous source?
An earlier article from the LAT, Sep 10th says:
It doesn’t say anything about how the email was official business. Where did the idea that the email was about appointments come from?
The link to the LAT story is was referring to:
LAT
Again, so what if she was using it to conduct government business? We need to ask the question “what kind of government business was being conducted?”. If it was just to set up an appointment or ask an aide to take care of something, it doesn’t matter too much. If it was discussing pay raises and such, then there could be a problem. Again, we don’t know exactly what was said. In the example you give, it could be simply that the appointment should’ve gone to the government account so that it could’ve been added to the Outlook Calendar easily. We don’t have enough info.
Regardless, a crime was committed here. In this case, it doesn’t matter what was in her account. The fact that it was hacked is what the problem is here; not if she was using it for government business or not.
On September 18th, 2008 at 7:27 pm, bluesoc said:
So your saying that picture of he Palin children and personal email that had nothing to do with anything OFFICIAL is high security stuff that the chinese would want?
Besides.. anything the chinese want to know they will just Ask Clinton
What a Marooonnnn.
I want to know why they didn’t comply. I KNOW why, I just want them to say it. Bunch of blathering blowhards that they are.
Like I said. Conjecture.
This is evidence.
http://newscred.com/author/show/name/ted-bridis
Feel free to let Ted know what you think of his journalistic ‘credibility’.
goose, sauce, you know…
Like I said. Conjecture.
This is evidence.
Exactly! These “what if” scenarios are simply red herrings to detract from the issue that this is a crime and the AP is covering up by not cooperating.
Like I said. Conjecture. If you go back to the original blogpost on this yesterday, you’ll see a quote from a hacker named Rubico, admitting to doing the hack and confessing that he read all of the e-mails and found nothing at all. That’s evidence.
google search that took about 4 seconds to type
Not thrilled about Palins government communication on yahoo either, BUT IT WASNT CLASSIFIED INFO….
Heck the Pentagon is the one that CREATED THE INTERNET and they get hacked all the time. (ok it was a DARPA project, but then we’re talking semantics….)
And by not cooperating with the investigation, someone needs to charged with obstruction of justice.
I believe the emails were obtained by Andrée McLeod under an open records act. I would assume he is the source (although I have not been able to locate the actual emails, which leads me to believe that McLeod has not put them online).
Why would she be using a personal account for ANY government business?
I think I made it quite clear that the problem is her using a yahoo account for GOVERNMENT business. I could care less if she uses a yahoo account for personal matters. Please re-read my posts.
That’s a little disrespectful, don’t you think?
oooooohhhhh oops…
Did they forget to tell you all that the Internet was created as a government – Department of Defense – project?? (psst, the internet was first called the arpanet…)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
Sorry…. but while we are on the subject (kids close your eyes) … there’s no Santa Claus, Easter Bunney or Tooth Fairy either…..
I interpreted “appointment” to mean something different, as in “the president appoints judges”. Not sure who’s right on this one.
Again, if it’s something simple like asking an aide to do something, who cares? Being governor is a 24/7 job. She doesn’t stop being governor at 5pm. There were probably times (maybe late at night) she needed to send something in a hurry and Yahoo was easier to do it with. I’m willing to cut some slack as long as there isn’t anything in there along the lines of payroll or evaluations or the like.
But, what do you think of the AP saying this crime wouldn’t have happened had she not used her account for government business? I’d like to know what your thoughts are on that.
I didn’t read anything about that in what Michelle posted. Could you provide a link?
I can see how you interpreted it that way. If this was the case, then yes, it didn’t belong in the Yahoo account.
Article doesn’t give enough info. That’s why I’ve been saying we don’t know enough from this article to know what kind of “government business” went on.
If the airline victims of 9/11 had taken another flight….
If the people of Broward County, FL knew how to mark a ballot….
This is from the email up in MM’s commentary for this article. Just scroll to the top for the rest of it. Please note the first paragraph that I quoted.
AP is nothing but a bunch of jellyfish swimming around in a pool of scum. They’re like dogs who enjoy chewing on turds. They’re like maggots crawling on a rotten chicken leg in the hot sun.
I pretty much despise all those dirty cretins.
blusoc,
Please also note this quote from the suspected hacker:
Here is the link.
It’s a long read.
This combined with what the AP said really smacks of obstruction of justice to me.
Anyway, I need to run. It’s been fun discussing this issue with you.
Have a good night all.
Sorry, missed that.
Had it been purely a personal email account, I find that to be an absolutely ridiculous statement.
However, had she used it for government business, I think the claim makes more sense and she should be held (at least) partially responsible.
bluesoc, there is zero information at your link to substantiate the allegation about Palin “improperly” using her private email accounts.
But I did love reading your fellow moonat getting upset at the very idea that the governor even had a private email accont.
I’m sure you’ve checked to make sure that no Democrats is guilty of such a thing.
bluesoc, I will attempt to rationally address your concern:
You’re right that we would be concerned if and only if those hypothetical conversations contained specifically classified information. Such classified information would never be disseminated over an unencrypted standard.gov email system anyway. But government business does not automatically equal classified. The opposite is true here: the manufactured hoopla is over whether emails were being kept which should have been made public record, and therefore available for any Chinese to see, without any such effort at hacking.
And if you had a brain, we’d hold you partly responsibe for the drivel you write.
Perhaps you should make an effort to show that she is guilty of some wrongdoing BEFORE you try to pin blame on her.
Needless to say, you have no problem with the activities of your fellow libtard.
Why? It’s concerns are not rational. It most likely does not believe a word it is writing here. It knows it’s full of crap, and its mission is to shift the topic of debate from yet another example of Democratic crookedness and try to smear the innocent party.
If this was liberal site, anyone pulling blusocs garbage would be banned instantly.
what?
You’re clearly not smart enough to be able to turn on a computer yourself, so who does it for you?
What sort of moron thinks that “appointment book” in computerese has anything to do with appointing judges?
Nobody is really this stupid, not even a libtard.
Tell me, you pathetic knumbskull, what evidence is there that she was doing any such thing? And by “evidence” I mean exactly that, not the infantile speculations of your fellow moonbats.
Anyone looking for another way to drop Mr. Bridis a friendly note can use his publicly accessible Facebook page:
With plenty of helpful links to the pages of all his friends that report at the AP, too.
Using AP logic all victims are the guilty party!
AP=absolutely pathetic
Need a warrant to seize every piece of electronics that AP owns, computers, PDAs, cell phones, etc. And since they opened the justification that Palin was using her personal Yahoo account for government business, every piece of electronics owned by every employee of AP, from stringers to the CEO, and their family members. To be served at 3 AM. And run them through an extensive forensics evaluation.
A bunch of uneducated, no father, low IQ, welfare, anchor baby producing, crack using, gang membered, tattooed, head shaking, finger wagging, TV addicted, dread locked, no job, rap loving, Obama supporting losers that hope the dope will take my tax money to let them get fat and produce more unfathered babies… and you think they can’t be that stupid. OH PHU-LEESE!
I have a rational concern for you to address:
Assume Palin never in her life used her personal email account to converse with any other government official ever… not even to wish them a happy birthday…
Then assume that a rumor is spread around to the effect that she does, and it is purely this rumor that sparks the interest which leads to hacking.
#1 Is it then your claim that Palin is responsible for the hacking because of an unconfirmed rumor that she never started?
#2 How does the truth of the rumor in any way/shape/form affect the illegal manner in which it was checked?
#3 What gives any private citizen so much indisputable right that not only can he issue himself search warrants, but he can also shift blame to his victims for his usurpation of the justice system?
Bub, you’re being treated far more respectfully than your behavior warrants. Faced with criminal behavior by Democratic operative, you have fixed your tiny mind like a tiny laser beam on the notion that it is Palin who has done something wrong.
You make some good points regarding the distinction between government business and classified government business.
Unfortunately, because it’s in a personal account, we really don’t know if it was used for anything classified. I think it would be better (and more transparent) policy to conduct ALL government business over (more) secure government servers. I think most people would agree with the last point.