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Investigating David Kernell

At this point, all we know about the University of Tennessee student who is rumored to be the subject of an investigation into the Governor Sarah Palin email hack-attack is that he is the son of State Representative Mike Kernell (D) from Memphis. WBIR is reporting:

The son of state Rep. Mike Kernell has been contacted by authorities in connection with a probe into the hacking of personal e-mail of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Kernell confirmed on Thursday.

To be CLEAR, at this point no charges have been filed. At this point, we only have confirmation of contact by the authorities.

But…if David Kernell is the young man responsible for the hack-attack, here are some screenshots of David Kernell’s facebook sent to me from some UT college students who don’t wish to be identified. Note, I edited the 2nd page by taking a new shot of the entire screenshot in order to avoid publishing his mobile phone number.

Here’s what’s there:

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UPDATE SUNDAY, 9/21: WBIR News Channel 10 in Knoxville is reporting that a witness says that FBI agents served a federal search warrant in the case of David Kernell, the self-described “Obamacrat.” Click here for more at WBIR.

UPDATE TUESDAY, 9/23: David Kernell Hires High-Powered Attorney with Computer Forensic Expertise. Click here.

UPDATE WED, OCT 8: FOX NEWS IS REPORTING THAT KERNELL HAS BEEN INDICTED…DEVELOPING…

Here’s the link with the indictment information including DOJ indictment for Kernell a/ka/ “Rubico”.

UPDATE WED, OCT 8: WBIR is reporting that Kernell was shackled and cuffed and has provisions with his release:

When he arrived at court, he was shackled and handcufffed.

The conditions for his release contain more than a dozen provisions, including:

–cannot leave the Eastern District of Tennessee without court permission. Kernell’s family lives in Memphis.
–cannot possess a computer.
–can access e-mail and can only access internet for class work.
–must not have any contact with Gov. Sarah Palin or her family.

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There is an apparent connection between David Kernell and David Plouffe. If you do a Technorati search for “david kernell” (http://www.technorati.com/search/%22david+kernell%22?authority=a4&language=en) and then click on Videos about David Kernell, the first video you see if of David Plouffe (Campaign manager for Obaman). He probably did the video for Plouffe.

This is not a casual connection.

Best regards,

Dave Kittley
bdk@srcaccess.net

I’m no Constitutional Law Professor but I’m pretty sure that cellphone number needs to be tapped and every number and text message ever sent out on it needs to be investigated and published on the internet.

[...] This website may have evidence of a connection between David Plouffe of the Obama campaign and alleged hacker of Sarah Palin’s emails David Kernell, son of Tennessee Democratic Representative Mike Kernell: There is an apparent connection between David Kernell and David Plouffe. If you do a Technorati search for “david kernell” (http://www.technorati.com/search/%22david+kernell%22?authority=a4&language=en) and then click on Videos about David Kernell, the first video you see if of David Plouffe (Campaign manager for Obaman). He probably did the video for Plouffe. [...]

[...] Frank’s got the Facebook screenshots. I particularly like his membership in the “The Fastest Way To A Girls’ Heart Is [...]

[...] Terry Frank has screen shots of his facebook pages. Seems there might be a connection to the Obama [...]

Excellent work as usual, TF! Isn’t it strange how news keeps breaking in our little backyard?

I’m not providing the information because Mr. Kernell proved what happens when you release information that’s not intended to be released. But, if you know a UT student who is willing to log in to their account and look up Mr. Kernell, you will find his (901) phone number. I assume that’s a cell. perhaps it is also in last year’s student directory, too. I just have my own reasons why I won’t publish it but I encourage anyone who can get access to it, to enjoy away

Wow — forget the TV/media — you’re all over this story. Great job!

[...] » Investigating David KernellPosted 4 hours [...]

hmmm… just as I suspected.
Not much about ethics taught in that home apparently.

Look forward to more of the same. They will play dirty to get their tool in office.
GG http://www.fracturedrepublic.com

Tis nothing….just a “Third rate burglary”

The WBIR report cited above is an earlier report from The Tennessean. Tennessean reporter Theo Emery’s current update on The Tennessean’s Web site has different wording from the reporter’s earlier report. I won’t link to it, because the wording may change again and the link might not show that. Just check for yourselves.

Donna–

Meaning that what they earlier said was a “probe” by “authorities” has now become a “heated internet discussion?”

Reading someone’s email is like what the Nazi’s did to the Jews when they searched their houses!

[...] UPDATE: Here’s David Kornell’s Facebook page, thanks to http://terryfrank.net/?p=3591: [...]

I absolutely cannot believe how little coverage this is getting in the MSM. Amazing. If this was the other way around, we’d have 24-hour coverage.

Good work Terry.

[...] the facebook pages of Mr. Kernell. Kudos to Terry Frank. Posted by [...]

Next time you do screen caps check out FSCapture (FastStone Capture). It has a autoscroll and cap feature that can capture whole webpages.

Terry great reporting, check out my post, I have an action alert on my blog, it’s time to counter-act ObamaNation…

There is an apparent connection between David Kernell and David Plouffe.

That’s not a connection, it’s a coincidence based on the search term “David.” Propagating such a worthless claim will actually backfire since it’s so easily (and obviously) disprovable. Save the connection speculation for things more concrete…

[...] David Kernell has a connection to David Plouffe who happens to be Obama’s Campaign manager. terryfrank.net Investigating David Kernell [...]

What did Stuttering Barry Milhouse Obama know and when did he know it?

“Member of Help Free Jenna 6.”

Sounds like a real winner…

Pieces of a puzzle?
Hacker’s email is said to be: rubico10@yahoo.com
David Kernell plays chess.
Did the hacker choose his user name because he plays 3-D chess, perhaps made by: http://www.rubicondev.com/Products/shogi.htm ?

still cannot find picture of Ploueffe that Daivid took? can someone help me…thanks abunch

Marie—as a friend of mine noted too, david kernell changed the new password to popcorn (kernel). Of course that’s no proof of anything, but it is kind of related.

And Mubix re: the entire screen shot. I didn’t shoot the screens. They’re from a couple of UT students, but I’ll let them know.

Gotta love how he has pages about Edwards, Obama, Cohen (Memphis Dem) and … Herr Doktor Ron Paul!!!!

Wow. Good work on the investigative stuff. It will be interesting to see the final analysis on this. You would think they should know by know if in fact David Kerrnel is the hacker.

Dave Kittley’s comment about a connection based on the Technorati page is incorrect.

The video link just brings up a random selection of “David” videos, and is not connected to Kernell.

If the shoe had been on the Repub side, this would have been posted all over every TV station in the world, the web from front to back, they would have sent out a team of investigators to find out if the MCCain Camp was behind it. But, such as the rest of the media’s licking of Obama’s butt, they will choose to sweep it under the carpet!!! I hope you all get just what you want – a totally inept president who can’t even talk without a teleprompter without sounding like a retarded person.

[...] are some screenshots of David Kernell’s facebook, along with some more [...]

About 3 days ago I posted observations about a Technorati search I did for “david kernell”.
The original screen shot I made of the results showed a Video of David Plouffe, and 3 other video’s (without caption names) between Search results. Later when I did the same search there were no images in the search results. The images could only be viewed by clicking on the gray video tab behind the search result screen. (which had caption names)
There were comments posted on this forum that the word “David” was the common element of images that were “about David Kernell”. After looking at the results, this is probably the correct explanation.

Although I still think young David Kernell took seriously the comments of the Ploofe video that they were the “cavalry” of the Obama campaign.

Now the strangest part. For a time yesterday, the image of David Plouffe would not show up at all on the search, but would still show up if you searched for “David Plouffe”. There was a time that there were no results at all from search for “david kernell”. But the strangest part happened last night after a phone conversation with Erick, I e-mailed him my screen shot to help us discuss this. It just dissappeared. Finally I e-mailed him the screenshot via another mail address that I use, it worked fine. Today I received a notification from my local ISP e-mail administrator: “WARNING. Mail Delayed: testing outgoing e-mail” This is a warning message only.
Your message remains in the server queue,
the server will try to send it again.
You should not try to resend your message now.

My e-mail attachment had been filtered. I tested it with other messages from my back-up e-mail account and it worked fine both directions.

Twilight Zone Strange

Dave Kittley

this kid was in my class
i knew him, he’s a pretty chill guy
bad decision on his part, though

To: By Not Snitching On

What do you think David Kernell’s motives for doing this were?

Is he impressional?

Best regards,

Dave Kittley

As of last night, the Feds still hadn’t contacted Mike or David Kernell.

Neither of them are working with Obama’s campaign.

IF David did so this, it certainly had nothing to do with his father, no more than Palin’s 19 yr old son’s drug addiction or her under age daughter’s pregnancy had to do with her.

I can’t speak for David, because I don’t know him. But I do know his father’s integrity is beyond reproach.

Children of GOOD parents do Bad things on both sides. Let’s not politicize this. IF David did something wrong, he’ll be held accountable, but whatever he did or didn’t do, the Feds clearly aren’t worried about it or they would have at least talked to him by now.

To: Sharon Cobb

You seem to know about Mike Kernell, are not convinced at this point that David pirated the e-mail of Sarah Palin. And seem to know a lot about the media coverage of Palin’s children.

There is a blog by Sharon Cobb. The following bio is from it. Is this yours?

I am a seasoned journalist, who worked as the Southeast correspondent for MSNBC online and contributor to NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. I’m also a filmmaker and songwriter.

If it is, I know where your bias is.

Best regards,

Dave Kittley

The truth is still important.

From the AP yesterday afternoon:
In the wake of hacking the Yahoo! e-mail account of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Web sleuths and the Feds may have nabbed the perpetrator. Meanwhile, Associated Press reporters were apparently in e-mail conversation with the suspect even as authorities were attempting to track him down.

According to reports in Knoxville’s Tennessean, Democrat State Representative Mike Kernell admitted that his son, David Kernell is being questioned by authorities in connection with the crime. The Secret Service and the FBI launched an official investigation on September 17.

Sounds like they are talking to somebody even if they are not talking to you.

Hubba,hubba,hubba! Money,money,money. Who do ya trust?

UPDATE: FBI serves search warrant against UT student in Palin case

WBIR.com

by Becky Simmons Updated: 9/21/2008 2:53:17 PM Posted: 9/18/2008 4:53:06 PM

http://www.wbir.com/news/breaking/story.aspx?storyid=64033&catid=29

Apparently David Kernell was not there. (Implies arrested) But his roommates were having a party. Around midnight.

Regards,

Dave Kittley

lets see…its ok to post Palin’s daughter’s cell phone number all over the blogosphere but not this kid’s? Pardon me, your hypocrisy is showing…..

If you do a Technorati search for “david kernell” (http://www.technorati.com/search/%22david+kernell%22?authority=a4&language=en) and then click on Videos about David Kernell, the first video you see if of David Plouffe (Campaign manager for Obaman). He probably did the video for Plouffe. […]

^^^Nope … Democrats removed it already. COVER UP!!

I was linked here inderectly, so I don’t have any form of context as to the sort of site this is, I was just trying to keep up with the story.

I only breezed through the comments, so if they changed tone by the bottom of it, I did not notice it. But I did notice a lot of theories speculating connections between kernell and the obama campaign. These are purely coincidental.

It’s already known that this was not a deliberate, nor thought out attack against mccain or any part of his campaign. though kernell may dislike both mccain and palin, the main drive behind this action was of joking nature.

and to the word “hacking,” i don’t think that truly describes the occurance. This was not a well protected government account, it was yahoo. the chances are kernell was either able to guess her password, or, after reading one of the multitude of articles about her, was able to guess the answer to one of her security questions.

what i think is more important than the intent and affiliation of kernell, though, is the fact that this was a personal account. kernell was arrested after 5 days. if the personal account of a typical citizen in the united states were hacked, they would expect no retribution. i’m personally disgusted that it would be expected that the potential future vice president would not get the same treatment for hers.

Anyone who thinks that because the Feds have not done anything yet, that this is minor or that they are not going to, should stick to talking about what they know about. I DO know about the Fed and the Fed’s actions – and they like to gather up all of the evidence they can in situations like this and THEN hit the perp really, really hard with charges that stick.

I also have a feeling that David is going to be REAL popular in his new “dorm” with the various Bubba’s tag-teaming on him. His soft skin and high pitched squeals ought to set off a feeding frenzy with the long term residents. He’s better “bone-up” on some stretching exercises so that he’s not all tore up and useless in just a couple of days.

I know David, as well. As far as his motives, I’ll put money on the fact that this was unplanned and probably spur of the moment. I can picture him playing around on the internet and acting on an idea without thinking of the consequences. He’s a typical college student, but he is very passionate about his political views. I am certain that this was of his own accord, and he is not involved in any crazy secret activity. This was a strong-willed student going too far without considering the future.

Leah–Just from the bragging comments posted on the web and the fact that the perp knew he would be in big trouble if anyone found out, leads me to believe he probably did this on his own.

But I want to know if he told anyone else, emailed anyone else, called anyone else and either a) let them know what he was doing b) gave or sent them the emails. If so, were any of those folks involved in any official capacity either with Obama or the Dem. Party.

Just from his web comments, the perp clearly knew up front what he was doing was an invasion of privacy. And though folks are trying to distract from the crime with arguments about the ease at which he hacked her account, the reality is, he knew and he surfed and he published.

I would suggest all those who claim it wasn’t hacking to surrender their own passwords so we can all go snooping through their accounts as well.

As far as playing around on the net, I think at 20 he knew very well what he was doing. He was doing what got Obama to the U.S. Senate, snooping into the personal lives of the opposition.

No doubt, he was hoping to make his leader proud. And believe me, if he had found something incriminating, we’d all be talking about it and the privacy issue would only be a footnote.

to the anonymous who posted comments about the cell number:

It’s not hypocritical for me not to post Kernell’s cell phone. If it was indeed him who posted Palin’s daughter, I don’t think two wrongs make a right.

He shouldn’t have published hers. And to be consistent in my principle, I’m not going to publish his. If it’s him, he should be held fully accountable.

i agree. I think he should be held fully accountable. But at the same time I think that it should be taken into account the seriousness of what happened. as a joke, a kid answered the security question to someone’s email address. he then went on to post a few pictures and a contacts list on the internet. Yes, it’s an invasion of privacy. But as far as they go, this was minor, at best. Thousands of 15-25 internet users would have done the exact same thing had the thought dawned on them.

I think that the involvement of any authority in this situation is an abuse of power, and I believe that if Kellner receives anything more than a slap on the wrist he will be the only victim at the end of it.

I smell trolls.

David Kernell in his own words over the 4chan.org forum amoung the /b/-tards gave it away. He expressed dissapointment that he didn’t find some dirt. That is was just common family converstion and pictures. He intended to break into her e-mail account to get the goods. To help whom? It did nothing for him, but who would it help to get the goods on Sarah Palin. None other than Barrack Obama.

This is all pointless. It is probably better that we wait for the Fed’s to finish the job. They are on this, and I have seen direct evidence of their presence. They don’t want this to go viral and complicate the legal side of persuing this. It is out of our hands to influence this at all now.

Eventually the press will be given information that they will reluctantly release. They have done everything in their power to surpress all knowledge of this. You can see it even on this forum. We had one of them try to pass herself off as a friend of Mike Kernell.

Have a good evening gentlemen,

Dave Kittley

I hope David gets a long prison term for his shennanigans. Idiot…

Sharon Cobb,

I’m sure you are trying to stick up for friend, and keep your own integrity, but you made an unfair, false smear of Track Palin. He did not join the Army because of drug addiction, and I’m shocked you would spread that around as if it were conventional wisdom.

And I believe it is David Kernell who politicized his own acts by asserting that he took his actions in concert (with a bunch of other persons) to bring down her candidacy – he was sure her stored emails would contain damning evidence of some recently publicized assertions that she “hid” mail from subpoena. Embarrassment to Palin and lulz would be gravy.

Whether he deserves is or not, Mike Kernell will share a portion of, if not blame, (since these are his son’s acts and not his own) the disgrace of having raised an adult with criminal disregard for the rights of others and the law.

That is a failure indeed, the biggest failure there is in life. A pregnancy is not such a crime, and Palin’s son has put his own life in harm’s way for all of us.

I do not think the situations compare. FWIW I don’t think in Palin’s case, that she has nothing to do with how her children turn out, or how they handle the errors they do make.

I don’t decide who governs me based on parenting success or failure, either. Mike Kernell may be an excellent legislator or even an excellent friend. But he will have a cloud of this disgrace to deal with, however blameless he might be.

His son has, by his own account, been depressed and institutionalized….and it appears to be related in part to family issues.

This kid left an electronic trail that led the Feds right to him. I’m pretty sure he is not associated with the group
‘Anonymous’ as it was written about in some of the early postings. I think those in ‘Anonymous’ would be ashamed to have David (popcorn) Kernell as a member leaving such an easy to trace trail this kid left. Even KD has done this before. Great work!

If he was a Republican and this was Joe Biden, this would be front page, headline. With MSM main story!!
Instead it gets the Edwards Baby scandal treatment, Shhhhhhhhhh. “Spin it and blame it on Palin’s using a poorly choosen password reset” Yahhhhh.

Joe, your minimizing does not comport with Kernell’s own description of his acts.

Malicious breaking into web-based email is not something I want any idiot to feel he can indulge in at whim.

Worse, he bragged about it, posted the email password so that others could alter the contents of the account and spread confidential addresses and private pictures.

[...] Terry Frank has screen shots of Kernell’s Facebook [...]

I think the key is to let the Feds do their job and then let the real press – bloggers – run with it. Maybe the truth will actually prevail. If this kid did it, if he is in anyway attached to his Dad over this, if he did anything to make points with Team Obama and if there is any trail which would be highly likely given his obvious excitement over his actions, what a great challenge for the new media.

Tremendous work. In a place devoid of journalism this is a pleasant and unexpected surprise. At least someone knows how to report the news.

Now can you teach the News Sentinel?

[...] is a post with screen caps of his Facebook; but comments # 1 & 32 should be interesting enough for starters.*Hint: as we would call it, *”it’s one hell [...]

I love how the McCain campaign has sent out its intern minions to write about a false connection between David Kernell and David Plouffe. What idiots. Truth is this so-called “hacker” was some kid who guessed right about Gov. Palin’s email using some deductive reasoning and tried to read her emails. Simple. The kid isn’t even really a “hacker”. We hackers don’t like our term used lightly. Thanks.

Just because this kid is being investigated, does not mean he did it.

I find the theories, and invasion of his facebook account, and publication of his personal information, to be humiliating for this kid.

Just because he is being investigated, does not mean he really did it. If you knew anything about hacking, you would know that networks are not secure and that it is possible to ’spoof’ IP addresses.

And, if it turns out that he did, can you legally claim that it is ok to display his private information all over the internet?

You are just as culpable as the perpetrator who got into Palin’s email account, regardless of innocence or guilt.

I hope Palin asks for mercy for the boy…. otherwise he is toast!

Perhaps it is me, yet I feel as if people are allowing their opinions to get in the way of the actual legal process.

I always thought that the American people desired a system that held one innocent until proven guilty. Yet again, it could be me, however I think that wishing harm upon a person prior to their conviction, especially when you do not have all the details, is not only a foolish waste of time, but more so a poor reflection of your process.

Sure, I am not a fan of Palin. However, what occurred was wrong. If Kernell is responsible for it, I am sure he will be held accountable for it. If he is not held accountable for this, and he is indeed the one who perpetrated it, I would say there are larger issues at hand.

Yes, be angry, be upset, this is something to not be pleased about. However, do take this time to re-evaluate your own security. Make sure this does not happen to you.

As for the media… feh. Since when have they been a reliable source of information ? No offense, but everything I have read here sounds like a bunch of bitter individuals commiserating in their own pity.

I would hope I am wrong about all of this, especially where it concerns everyone here.

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I am a student at UTK…it’s amazing how hush-hush this incident is on campus. The University rather focus on their lack of skilled football players than a hungry democrat. I’m sure the College Democrat group is pretty proud of this one.

It’s interesting that the extreme leftist Kernell would have the ONLY constitutionalist from either party that ran for president, Ron Paul, as one of his interest groups.

This, of course, is one place where the Frank’s are actually MORE liberal than they’d admit. The fact is that the guy they supported, Fred Thompson, was far, far to the left of Paul in every area. Probably the reason that Kernell had Ron Paul up was that Ron Paul was perceived as “anti-war”. Actually, Paul is pro-constitution which makes him anti non-declared by Congress “wars”. Ron Paul would be the best defender of the country but would NOT get the country involved in unconstitutional police actions as would Obama, McCain or Fred!!

As a UT Student and staff member I insist that Kernell be totally investigated and prosecuted to the FULL extent of the law if found guilty of illegal activities. Also, if there is a direct connection with the Obama campaign that along with his Father’s connections should all be investigated. In fact, could the Ford Klan be involved in Memphis as well?

[...] Knoxville blogger and WBIR contributor Terry Frank who is helpfully (but with no basis in fact) posting images of Kernell’s Facebook page, although she has removed his mobile phone number. Nice [...]

If, as claimed by some here, this kid is simply an avid Obama supporter who behaved impulsively without thinking, then what do we see here? Another Obama supporter who makes poor choices. It all fits.

why do republicans and democrats assume that the opposing party gets preferential treatment from the mainstream media? republicrats…two-sides of the same coin.

[...] the internets take care of everything, here are screenshots of the Kernell’s Facebook page. Guilt by association! He is a member of Obama/Biden, College Democrats, and Anti-War, Pro-Kittens. [...]

The last picture with Kernell ………… is that Roger Clinton …….??

He’s a college kid who knows how to hack a computer. Which, of course, makes him smarter than McCain. And like most college kids, he’s a democrat. There’s no connection between him and the campaign. He was probably doing what he immaturely thought was right. You don’t have to be part of some conspiracy to despise Palin, you only have to be an intellectual.

[...] addition to the search of Kernell’s home, the FBI has also reportedly investigated his Facebook page, which includes pictures, links to political affiliations and interests, as well as his cell phone [...]

Most likely, no one will be able to pin this episode on Obama or his campaign staff. Obama stays clean, but it’s the kind of people he attracts. So many radical leftists and loose cannons. It’s a significant part of the Democrat party base. Palin was fortunate that there was no dirt there to be found.

I strongly disagree with Joe, this is not a prank, it is a violation of federal law and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent. If he had compromised my mail server I would be expecting a trial and a jail sentence of at least 2-3 years and would not settle for less.

I might have been convinced it was a harmless joke, until he published he private email corresdpodance and broke federal law.

I’m not familiar with Yahoo password reset protocol but when changing a password don’t you have to have access to the e-mail account in order to follow the prompts back to change the password?

So there may have been a little more “hacking with intent” and a little less “unplanned and probably spur of the moment”

Posted by Joe:
I think that the involvement of any authority in this situation is an abuse of power, and I believe that if Kellner receives anything more than a slap on the wrist he will be the only victim at the end of it.

By Joe on 09.21.08 9:17 pm
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OK… yeah, the poor victim-criminal… This attitude is why our criminal justice system is useless, thanks to liberal views on the treatment of criminals. Oh yes, the criminal is the victim. Theives rob us because they are poor and had bad parental involvement.. blah blah blah.

Please do not associate Kernell with groups he is affiliated with on campus.

He is, alone, responsible.

Let us not forget that the only reason this is of any importance is because of the fact that if Palin was in fact using a private email account to discuss state business, it is in circumvention of the law requiring all such messages go through official email accounts.

I earned broadcast and journalism degrees years ago, and (for a while) the managing editor in a broadcast newsroom, and always tended to believe that journalism was a noble field. Now the different standards are obvious. AP says it is OK to spread the contents of a stolen email account across the media world, including the cell phone number of an innocent 17 year old; and then you think it is OK to remove the cell phone number of the offender (suspected) from a publicly posted Facebook page. I don’t get it, and I probably wouldn’t believe your explanation even if you had one.

And, may I ask – how did you acquire screenshots of his Facebook page? “Sent to me from some UT college students who don’t wish to be identified” is short for “hacked,” no doubt. Or at least shared/obtained under false pretenses and likely in violation of the Facebok’s terms of use. The provenance of these images is just about as suspect as that Gov. Palin’s email… Good for the gander and all that.

The Obama campaign clearly put David up to the task. It is clear, since his father is a Democrat, who as we all know, will stop at nothing to get their “clean” candidate in office.

If the Obama constituency so shamelessly engages in such invasions of privacy, what will they do if they are (God forbid) elected? Enact a law that would allow the government to tap into ANY e-mail or cell phone they think is against their cause? We need to KEEP SUCH POLITICIANS OUT! ANYONE READ 1984? IS A POLICE STATE APPROACHING?

MCCAIN / PALIN 08

[...] of Tennessee student who illegally gained entry to Sarah Palin’s private Yahoo account, is an “Obamacrat”. Just view the following screenshot of his Facebook page captured by Terry Frank, a Republican [...]

I seem to remember something like this happening in D.C. in the 70’s.
What was it called?? Oh yeah, Watergate.
Who’s gonna go to jail with this kid??
Wonder how far under the bus he goes before he tells?

The kid is also a big Colbert fan. If this story gets legs expect to see him on that show being given a heroes welcome. Hell, Colbert will probably pay for the rest of the kids tuition. His dad probably had nothing to do with it, but the kid’s motives were vicious as he says himself he was disappointed he didn’t find anything damning to Palin.

Will dad bail-out son? Or will he let him stand on his own two feet?

What behind the scenes negotiations are going on?

What will be the cost politically? Hmmm!

David’s attorney states that he is a decent and intelligent young man. What he did was neither decent or intelligent just typical of the Democrat mind set. People are starting to see through ZerObama’s rhetoric and pompass attitude and they are getting SCARED. So they feel they have no choice but to run a smear campaign.
Ask any college student voting for Obama to give three reasons he or she is voting for zerObama without using the word change or Iraq and see what they come up with.

FYI

http://chattanoogan.com/articles/article_135683.asp

A Grand Jury in Chattanooga on Tuesday morning heard testimony into the alleged hacking of the personal e-mail of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

At 9:00 AM two males and a female, are apparently friends of a University of Tennessee student who is under investigation for the hacking (David Kernell ) entered the Courthouse & testified. (These were the ones in his apartment when the search warrant was served)

Security officers notified members of the media at 10:30 a.m. that the trio had exited the courthouse by another door.

The Grand Jury was expected to make its return later today or Wednesday.

Where ever you are, thought you would want to know. Things are moving pretty fast.

Best regard,

Dave Kittley

A federal Grand Jury in Chattanooga has declined to indict UT student David Kernell of a felony today.
He was accused of intruding into vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s private e-mail.
The grand jury ended its session without sending an indictment against Kernell.

According to a newspaper report. (Chattanooga Times Free Press)

Readers Note- If the law as applied to this case only calls for a misdomener charge, a No Bill would be correct.

What are laws on e-mail hacking (Federal/State)(misdomener/felony)?

I know David as well. He’s a great guy and really brilliant. Ya’ll should stop complaining it’s not like it was her work accounts, it was her personal account. Oh well, he saw some E-cards and advertisements, so what?

To: No Snitch On
You told me before that you knew him in school and he was a “pretty chill guy”.

I asked you before about his possible motives for doing this. You had no response.

In the exchange over 4chan he admitted he did it to get the goods on her. And expressed disappointment that there was nothing there except personel stuff. He admits on his face page that he is an Obama supporter.

He was trying to help elect BO.

Now he has probably decided to be nice and cooperate fully with the prosecution, and I suspect they have offered a lesser charge (misdomener) if he tells all.

I am convinced that Palin smear campaign is orchistrated from the top of the Obama campaign. There is real evidence of that, and it is growing.

If there is a connection between Netroots and David this could be interesting.

All I want exposed is the truth, not Astroturf.

Dave Kittley

To: Sharon Cobb

Found this interesting:

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/hacks_and_cracks/index.html

“David Kernell and his father, Democratic state representative Mike Kernell, met with Davies (Attorney Wade V. Davies) for dinner on Friday evening in Knoxville, according to a Memphis blogger and friend of the family named Sharon Cobb.”

The article says that David’ parents have been staying with their son in a hotel since FBI agents visited David Kernell’s apartment.

Sharon you really do know the Kernells.

Best regards,

Dave Kittley

Believe me, that beautiful little Doe-eyed, curly-topped moppet will never have to worry about all the loving attention he would have gotten in a federal prison. Daddy has the keys to the gate and every one of them has a picture of Benjamin Franklin on it! – “He’s just a poor little misunderstood kid, your honor” – “OK, here’s your ‘Get Out Of Jail Free Card’ Son. Be sure to call Uncle Teddy and thank him for his help”!

I think his defense will be that he’s just an immature idiot…Do a google search for davidkernell.com and then click on the cached version. When it asks for a username and password, click cancel, and see what you see. Anyone making comments like that isn’t hitting on all cylinders.

What’s the latest info on this punk? I’ve heard nothing since 9/22.

[...] has a very high powered attorney from Knoxville. You can read about him here. Here are Kernell’s facebook pages on an older [...]

Indicted. Now we’re cookin. 5 yrs and or $250,000 fine.

this is a serious crime on it’s own, if it involves the obama campaign it’s more serious.

sorry, there is no excuse for being an “immature idiot” the fact that he was able to do this rules out the “idot” part. He is an adult and adults are held responsible for their actions.

throw the smarmy punk in jail for max. sentence to discourage further activities such as this

This is typical of democrats. They say all these crazy things about republicans when in fact they are the ones who are pathetic. Sarah has um running scared. How sweet it will be to see her wipe the floor with them in November.

Palin 08/12

I trust you are all similarly up in arms about Palin’s use of her private Yahoo email account to subvert govt transparency and document retention obligations. No one? Crickets.

Some of you act like this is no big deal but I think it is huge. If someone were to break into my email box, I would feel so violated. To post it on the internet…even worse…but doing this to a potential VP in the middle of a presidential campaign…you have to throw the book at him. He should get the maximum penalty for this because it was not just some private citizen he was doing it to. He was trying to manipulate a national election. This should concern people no matter which party you are adhere to and it definitely should of concern to the “Feds”. Do you want this type of thing to influence the elections in our country? Do you want to encourage this behavior in the future? It is right along the same lines as Watergate and the Clinton’s FBI Files Scandal…It is all very serious because the information they find can be used for blackmailing our lawmakers, or coercing people to vote a certain way on a bill or in this case, potentially affect an election, all very serious things. Everyone no matter the party should take these things very seriously and the penalty for this young man, no matter how naive his motives or judgment has to be the strictest possible to deter people in the future.

The few on here defending this jackass are clearly:
(a) voting Obama
(b) living examples of a once great country gone awry at its deepest level

God help us all.

DailyCaveat – there is no proof of that allegation. By his own admission, the moron who broke into her email said nothing wasa there but personal stuff and family photos. What? She’s not allowed to email her friends and family? What? No one? Crickets?

Just another uber lib psycho run amok.

absolutely no comparison. One is a crime punnishable by 5 years in jail, witness the indictment.The government use of a personal email account has been shown to be a non event.

5 years jail? Well, if he isnt a dangerous criminal now, he sure will be when he gets out. Just what your country needs…more fresh blood in jail. Sure he needs to be punished, but really…sending him to the big house for 5 years, where he will be eaten up and learn how to survive by any means is just over the top. What is more worrying is all this ridiculous Obama vs McCain bullcrap. Sheesh…conspiricy theories of “coming from the top” etc..

Get a life. Throw this kid in jail and it’s what you’d expect from the Excited States of America really. Over the top knee jerk reaction. How much does it cost the tax payer again? How many inmates are there in jail who really ned to be there?

This is the kind of stuff that gives democrats a bad name. They are showing their true colors with acts like this. Absolutly no honor. I can understand why only the young and ignorant will vote for Obama.

rubico…

Throw away the key.The college student charged with illegally accessing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s e-mail has been accused of computer intrusion before, although last time he faced only an afternoo……

You should put hotair.com on your links and also Jewishworldreview.com (I’m not Jewish and many of the columnist they display are not but this is a great site) If you have never checked these out do so they are about where the money goes in politics…opensecrets.org and newsmeat.com

FROM:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96QL5AG6

MORE CHARGES FILED IN PALIN E-MAIL HACKING CASE

Mar 9 12:32 PM US/Eastern
By DUNCAN MANSFIELD (Associated Press Writer)

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) –
Three more federal charges have been filed against a University of Tennessee student charged with hacking into the personal e-mail account of Alaska Gov. and former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.

David Kernell, the son of a Democratic Tennessee legislator, pleaded not guilty to all charges on Monday, and a magistrate agreed to push back his trial from May to October.

[...] on Kernell is here. My post on his attorney is [...]

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