Sarah Palin E-Mail Hacker Convicted on Two Charges
Today’s news is mostly being dominated by Arizona immigration law and the oil slick (don’t worry, the Department of Justice has dispatched a team of attorneys to the Gulf… whew!), but there is some other news just in…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The 22-year-old son of a Democratic Tennessee lawmaker has been convicted on two charges in the hacking of Sarah Palin’s e-mail account while she campaigned on the Republican presidential ticket in 2008.
The federal court jury reached its verdict Friday against David Kernell after four days of deliberation. He was found guilty of obstruction of justice and unauthorized access to a computer, but was acquitted on a charge of wire fraud.
The jury was deadlocked on a charge of identify theft. Prosecutors reserve the right to have a new trial on that charge. The charge of obstructing an investigation has a maximum 20-year prison sentence.
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And the outrage should come from all sides. Some young college kid thinks he can out-smart real geeks and break someone’s privacy? “I don’t think so, Tim.”
Lock him up and never let him near a computerized device ever again.
It is the price you pay for committing a crime in the Era of Obama and not be a member of the NBPP.
I wonder how OlberrCrap will spin this one.
He will find way! (Psychotics can do that!).
Yeah right. My guess – he gets probation and maybe some community service – working for his dad.
I wish I believed that he’s spend any time in jail. I hope to be proven wrong.
Four Days? What did they do with the other 3 days and 23 hours?
10 – 20 your honor. He’ll be out in 6 with good behavior.
Yea right, probation. Can’t destroy the kid’s life. Even if he did attack a Governor/VPOTUS candidate it was a conservative candidate, so it’s not that big a deal. /sarc
He was able to bring down the republicans in the last election and helped Obama get elected. He is a hero. Because of him, we have free health care for everyone, and soon will clear up our air and water, and allow hard working illegal immigrants to be legal.
We will be able to cut the excessive pay of male CEOS and transfer that money to female CEOS so they can contribute more to the Democrat party.
Your political jihad has done wonders for this country. More than even the beer summit did.
We are on our way to a country where all wealth is distributed evenly so everything is finally fair. All those rich people will get their comeuppance. Its about time. I hate that they get all that stuff and I don’t.
Sarah is so dumb anyway. A community organizer knows more about stuff than she does. Community organizers always know more than elected Governors. Everybody knows that.
Don’t worry kid, we have been able to put judges in high places over the years that support the Democrat party. We will work it so you won’t have to pay a price. Even if you get some jail time, how does Ambassador to France sound? Do you like Paris? No not Hilton.
/sarc choking me. can’t breathe now.
Next, we will need you to bring down Acorn. No wait, thats our regimes election fraud arm.
We need you to bring down Arizona. We need to get those 57 states back to 50.
I wish to thank the jury for their service to the public.
Guard: “Mr. Kernell, allow me to introduce you to your new cell male…. Mr. Ben Dover.”
Olberwoman: Hacking computers and email owned by ugly bags of meat is not a crime!
Hopefully he’ll rue the day he snickered ‘teabagger’.
Oh, c’mon. The verdicts will be overturned and the punk will probably get a job in the other punk’s Organization of Occupation as would any good quisling.
Maybe they’ll put him in with a cellmate named ‘Sanchez’;
Dirty Sanchez.
All of you, especially T-Bone – you’re killing me. I can’t breathe for laughing so hard–what a great Friday this has been.
A word of advice to Kernell if I may:
Think of a happy place when it happens in the shower.
He’s going to be someone’s Boy Toy.
Oh, I’m so happy!
Wire fraud and obstruction of justice.
That’s got to be worth something.
And SP was extremely gracious and classy in her FB update when the verdict came in.
Please, can it be Jan 21, 2013 already?
Felony conviction, right? Dude can’t vote…love it!
I bet he doesn’t get any jail time. Or if he does, it will be something like 30 days. I hope I’m wrong. He needs to learn a lesson, that creepy little punk!
T-Bone – those 57 states are going to go to 58 if PR gets its way. Or shall I say, if the Dems get their way.
Or own a firearm for life.
book em Dan’o
Thirty days of Boy Toy time with Ben Dover would be sufficient. Film it, put in on the web.
You people are harsh. Be loving and gentle like me
Ban this post; it denigrates and excludes the States of the Northern Marianna Islands, Kenya, Indonesia and LaLa Land.
Happy, that 30 trips to the shower. I’d bet that’s more than enough.
This is what the lady had to say:
Classy and thoughtful.
So unlike her adversaries.