David Kernell Convicted of Hacking Sarah Palin's E-Mail Account

It took the jury four days to convict him. While it is impossible to read a jury’s mindset, I suspect they were torn between knowing Kernell had broken the law and the argument that he was attempting to influence the 2008 election. The former is obvious. The latter is a little far fetched.

Nevertheless, Sarah Palin took to her face book account an drew a parallel between her personal correspondence having been accessed and Watergate.

Palin is the cat’s meow as far as I am concerned, but I think she is being overly dramatic here. Kernell’s father is a democrat state representative in Tennessee. The kid probably does not like republicans and being the reckless sort, hacked Palin’s e-mail account just to embarrass her. Maybe he expected to find something that would jeopardize her spot on the GOP ticket, but that is farfetched.

What he did do was allow screenshots of her account to appear on the internet. That resulted in harassing phone calls because Bristol Palin’s cell phone was clearly visible Such was his likely intention--just to bean obnoxious pain.

Kernell could potentially face twenty years in ail. He will not get anywhere near that. This is going to be considered a college prank more than some attempt to influence a national election.

On the bright side, Keith Olbermann is really upset Palin did not perjure herself like he had hoped. So there is that.