Hero to us all: Someone we all wish worked for us

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Drip drip drip ... goes our rights, drip, drip, dripping away.

Obama and his promises.  I recall he promised to be different than Bush.  To end torture, close Guantanamo, get out of Iraq, end the exodus of workers to foreign lands, rebuild US relations with the world, restore confidence in government, drain the swamp, end the revolving door in the White House for lobbyists, end the constant campaigning that Bush was claimed to have done all during his administration, post bills online several days before he signs them to allow the American people an opportunity for a say, ... he is 0 for whatever.  He attacked Bush, and Democrats went on and on about Bush and he Patriot Act, our civil liberties taken away ... and Obama just extended the Patriot Act, and not only that, but ...

you got to wonder.

1) He has not only not done anything he promised he would do within the first hours, let alone first months.
2) He has made relations worse with most of our allies and made us a laughing stock among the rest
3) He has pushed civil liberties off the page and now every email communication and every internet communication.
4) He has no experience and it shows.
5) Our national debt just went up nearly 1/2 of what Bush's rose in 8 years, and he did it in less than 18 months.

Amazing.





March 2, 2010, 11:00 PM ET.

Details of “Einstein” Cyber Shield Disclosed by White House



By Siobhan Gorman

The Obama administration lifted the veil Tuesday on a highly-secretive set of policies to defend the U.S. from cyber attacks.

It was an open secret that the National Security Agency was bolstering a Homeland Security program to detect and respond to cyber attacks on government systems, but a summary of that program declassified Tuesday provides more details of NSA’s role in a Homeland program known as Einstein.

The current version of the program is widely seen as providing meager protection against attack, but a new version being built will be more robust–largely because it’s rooted in NSA technology. The program is designed to look for indicators of cyber attacks by digging into all Internet communications, including the contents of emails, according to the declassified summary.

Homeland Security will then strip out identifying information and pass along data on new threats to NSA. It will also use threat information from NSA to better identify emerging cyber attacks.

NSA’s role is a careful balance because of the political battles that ensued over the agency’s role in domestic surveillance in the George W. Bush administration. Declassifying details of the NSA’s role, in a program initially developed during the Bush administration and continued in the Obama administration, will likely ignite new debates over privacy.

The White House’s new cyber-security chief, Howard Schmidt, announced the move to declassify the program in a speech at the RSA conference in San Francisco–his first major public address since assuming the post in January. He said addressing potential privacy concerns was one of the ten initial steps he planned to take. “We’re really paying attention, and we get it,” he said.

 
 
 
 
 
civil liberties

NSA - Spying on You

Where is Obama, where are the Democrats? Why are there not calls to end this tyranny, hearings by Waxman. Why isn't Pelosi screaming on television about the civil rights issues.

WHY?




The New York Times

E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress


By JAMES RISEN and ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: June 16, 2009

WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency is facing renewed scrutiny over the extent of its domestic surveillance program, with critics in Congress saying its recent intercepts of the private telephone calls and e-mail messages of Americans are broader than previously acknowledged, current and former officials said.

The agency’s monitoring of domestic e-mail messages, in particular, has posed longstanding legal and logistical difficulties, the officials said.

Since April, when it was disclosed that the intercepts of some private communications of Americans went beyond legal limits in late 2008 and early 2009, several Congressional committees have been investigating. Those inquiries have led to concerns in Congress about the agency’s ability to collect and read domestic e-mail messages of Americans on a widespread basis, officials said. Supporting that conclusion is the account of a former N.S.A. analyst who, in a series of interviews, described being trained in 2005 for a program in which the agency routinely examined large volumes of Americans’ e-mail messages without court warrants. Two intelligence officials confirmed that the program was still in operation.

Both the former analyst’s account and the rising concern among some members of Congress about the N.S.A.’s recent operation are raising fresh questions about the spy agency.

Representative Rush Holt, Democrat of New Jersey and chairman of the House Select Intelligence Oversight Panel, has been investigating the incidents and said he had become increasingly troubled by the agency’s handling of domestic communications.

In an interview, Mr. Holt disputed assertions by Justice Department and national security officials that the overcollection was inadvertent.

“Some actions are so flagrant that they can’t be accidental,” Mr. Holt said.

Other Congressional officials raised similar concerns but would not agree to be quoted for the record.

Mr. Holt added that few lawmakers could challenge the agency’s statements because so few understood the technical complexities of its surveillance operations. “The people making the policy,” he said, “don’t understand the technicalities.” [What about Nancy Pelosi? Maybe the NSA is lying to her, maybe she needs to march across the street and tell Bush that he ... I mean, tell Obama, I mean, well, we can't raise it because it isn't Bush doing it, and it would embarass Obama and ... well, let's pretend nothing is happening ...]

The inquiries and analyst’s account underscore how e-mail messages, more so than telephone calls, have proved to be a particularly vexing problem for the agency because of technological difficulties in distinguishing between e-mail messages by foreigners and by Americans. A new law enacted by Congress last year gave the N.S.A. greater legal leeway to collect the private communications of Americans so long as it was done only as the incidental byproduct of investigating individuals “reasonably believed” to be overseas.

But after closed-door hearings by three Congressional panels, some lawmakers are asking what the tolerable limits are for such incidental collection and whether the privacy of Americans is being adequately protected.

“For the Hill, the issue is a sense of scale, about how much domestic e-mail collection is acceptable,” a former intelligence official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because N.S.A. operations are classified. “It’s a question of how many mistakes they can allow.”

While the extent of Congressional concerns about the N.S.A. has not been shared publicly, such concerns are among national security issues that the Obama administration has inherited from the Bush administration, including the use of brutal interrogation tactics, the fate of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and whether to block the release of photographs and documents that show abuse of detainees.

In each case, the administration has had to navigate the politics of continuing an aggressive intelligence operation while placating supporters who want an end to what they see as flagrant abuses of the Bush era.

The N.S.A. declined to comment for this article. Wendy Morigi, a spokeswoman for Dennis C. Blair, the national intelligence director, said that because of the complex nature of surveillance and the need to adhere to the rules of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the secret panel that oversees surveillance operation, and “other relevant laws and procedures, technical or inadvertent errors can occur.”

“When such errors are identified,” Ms. Morigi said, “they are reported to the appropriate officials, and corrective measures are taken.”

In April, the Obama administration said it had taken comprehensive steps to bring the security agency into compliance with the law after a periodic review turned up problems with “overcollection” of domestic communications. The Justice Department also said it had installed new safeguards.

Under the surveillance program, before the N.S.A. can target and monitor the e-mail messages or telephone calls of Americans suspected of having links to international terrorism, it must get permission from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Supporters of the agency say that in using computers to sweep up millions of electronic messages, it is unavoidable that some innocent discussions of Americans will be examined. Intelligence operators are supposed to filter those out, but critics say the agency is not rigorous enough in doing so.

The N.S.A. is believed to have gone beyond legal boundaries designed to protect Americans in about 8 to 10 separate court orders issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, according to three intelligence officials who spoke anonymously because disclosing such information is illegal. Because each court order could single out hundreds or even thousands of phone numbers or e-mail addresses, the number of individual communications that were improperly collected could number in the millions, officials said. (It is not clear what portion of total court orders or communications that would represent.)

“Say you get an order to monitor a block of 1,000 e-mail addresses at a big corporation, and instead of just monitoring those, the N.S.A. also monitors another block of 1,000 e-mail addresses at that corporation,” one senior intelligence official said. “That is the kind of problem they had.”

Overcollection on that scale could lead to a significant number of privacy invasions of American citizens, officials acknowledge, setting off the concerns among lawmakers and on the secret FISA court.

“The court was not happy” when it learned of the overcollection, said an administration official involved in the matter.

Defenders of the agency say it faces daunting obstacles in trying to avoid the improper gathering or reading of Americans’ e-mail as part of counterterrorism efforts aimed at foreigners.
Several former intelligence officials said that e-mail traffic from all over the world often flows through Internet service providers based in the United States. And when the N.S.A. monitors a foreign e-mail address, it has no idea when the person using that address will send messages to someone inside the United States, the officials said.

The difficulty of distinguishing between e-mail messages involving foreigners from those involving Americans was “one of the main things that drove” the Bush administration to push for a more flexible law in 2008, said Kenneth L. Wainstein, the homeland security adviser under President George W. Bush. That measure, which also resolved the long controversy over N.S.A.’s program of wiretapping without warrants by offering immunity to telecommunications companies, tacitly acknowledged that some amount of Americans’ e-mail would inevitably be captured by the N.S.A.

But even before that, the agency appears to have tolerated significant collection and examination of domestic e-mail messages without warrants, according to the former analyst, who spoke only on condition of anonymity.

He said he and other analysts were trained to use a secret database, code-named Pinwale, in 2005 that archived foreign and domestic e-mail messages. He said Pinwale allowed N.S.A. analysts to read large volumes of e-mail messages to and from Americans as long as they fell within certain limits — no more than 30 percent of any database search, he recalled being told — and Americans were not explicitly singled out in the searches.

The former analyst added that his instructors had warned against committing any abuses, telling his class that another analyst had been investigated because he had improperly accessed the personal e-mail of former President Bill Clinton.
[Who wouldn't have wanted to peek at those emails. All his 'friends' emailing him!]

Other intelligence officials confirmed the existence of the Pinwale e-mail database, but declined to provide further details.

The recent concerns about N.S.A.’s domestic e-mail collection follow years of unresolved legal and operational concerns within the government over the issue. Current and former officials now say that the tracing of vast amounts of American e-mail traffic was at the heart of a crisis in 2004 at the hospital bedside of John Ashcroft, then the attorney general, as top Justice Department aides staged a near revolt over what they viewed as possibly illegal aspects of the N.S.A.’s surveillance operations.

James Comey, then the deputy attorney general, and his aides were concerned about the collection of “meta-data” of American e-mail messages, which show broad patterns of e-mail traffic by identifying who is e-mailing whom, current and former officials say. Lawyers at the Justice Department believed that the tracing of e-mail messages appeared to violate federal law.
“The controversy was mostly about that issue,” said a former administration official involved in the dispute.

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June 16, 2009. The Atlantic also havs a very good article.
Pinwale And The New NSA Revelations

The New York Times' Pulitzer-Prize-winning duo of Eric Lichtblau and James Risen have new details about the extent of National Security Agency surveillance of electronic communications in the United States. They reveal that a dispute over e-mail monitoring of Americans was at the heart of a now famous confrontation between then-acting Attorney General James Comey and White House counsel Alberto Gonzales. L and R refer to the program as having the code name of "Pinwale." Pinwale, though, is actually an unclassified proprietary term used to refer to advanced data-mining software that the government uses. Contractors who do SIGINT mining work often include a familiarity with Pinwale as a prerequesite for certain jobs. To keep things straight, the American public now has confirmation of at least four separate NSA domestic surveillance programs. The first is the Terrorist Surveillance Program, which involves the monitoring of telephone calls. The second is "Stellar Wind," a code name for a program that involves meta-data mining. The third is a program that keeps tabs on all the information that flows through telecom hubs under the control of U.S. companies and within the U.S. The fourth is the Pinwale e-mail exploitation. Obviously, these programs overlap. A marvelous new book about the NSA, The Secret Sentry, reports that there are at least ten separate new counterterrorist programs that are segregated from the rest of the NSA's highly classified programs and activities. Four down, six to go.
(For more on the NSA's activities, please read my colleague Shane Harris's collected works.)











NSA

The Inconsistency of the Left

The following were taken from the comments section of a newspaper - the subject / topic: The hacking of Sarah Palin's email account.

I have not bothered editing anything out (useless dates/times or other information).

Do pay attention that NOT ONE was bothered by her emails being read, but I am certain every one of them would not want Bush to have access to their emails.

I love consistency.

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CodePink at 01:07 PM
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Oh. Wow.

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Morrow at 01:07 PM
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I figured her personal email address would be something like Milfygov123...shows what I know.

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graceless at 01:07 PM
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Ha ha ha ha ha ah ha!

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Richard at 01:08 PM
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I'm just amazed that they have computers in Alaska.

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acridsheep at 01:09 PM
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Well, we can certainly count on one thing in all of this mess: John McCain won't understand any of it.

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Maura Johnston at 01:09 PM
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of course she uses yahoo. OF COURSE.

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BinkysDream at 01:10 PM
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@Richard: But clearly they don't really know how to use them.

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ShitloadOfDimes at 01:10 PM
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Not cool enough for gmail!

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Richard at 01:10 PM
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@acridsheep: "What in the?? ... Cindy, why do I have jam in my pockets?"

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jbwan at 01:11 PM
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track_44@hotmail.com?
what could the 44 stand for?

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busyness at 01:11 PM
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To quote Ross' and Monica's mom on an episode of Friends: "That's a lot of information to get all at once."

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Aaron Altman at 01:11 PM
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You know, an 84 / 9 legit email to spam ratio is pretty good for a Yahoo! account. At least in my experience.

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ShitloadOfDimes at 01:11 PM
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@jbwan: IQ

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CaptainFantastic at 01:12 PM
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Classy.

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Aaron Altman at 01:12 PM
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@jbwan: That 43 other Tracks beat her to it.

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overunderover at 01:12 PM
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@Maura Johnston: I would've guessed an aol account.

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CodePink at 01:13 PM
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@Richard: Heated igloo=computer lab

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JinxyMcDeath at 01:13 PM
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@Morrow: More like ClubSeals@hotmail.com or even Jesus4Life@gmail.com

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allyzay at 01:14 PM
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are you not allowed on gmail if you are in alaska?

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felion at 01:14 PM
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The conspiracy theorist in me says that someone in the McCain campaign hacked in, posted the password so that everyone would log in and get the site shut down and the contents deleted.

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Aaron Altman at 01:14 PM
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SARAH PALIN PERSONAL EMAIL HACK - INFORMATION RELEASE SCHEDULE:
Wednesday: Yahoo!Thursday: GmailFriday: AOLSaturday/Sunday: Bonus day - Sarah's favorite IM's and G-chats!

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mitchel_stevens at 01:15 PM
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Good ol' /b/ comes through again.

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contradicto at 01:15 PM
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@overunderover: I would have thought she had an account with Juno.

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Aaron Altman at 01:15 PM
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@CodePink: Computer mouse = actual walrus

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mitchel_stevens at 01:16 PM
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and in case you want to get meta:robot 9000 has the updates:[img.4chan.org]

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jasonelias at 01:16 PM
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Look at those addresses. Spammity calamity!

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jasonelias at 01:16 PM
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Where's Levi_512's address?

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Mount_Prion at 01:16 PM
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Does this mean Sarah Palin is a scientologist?...and that they play Counter-Strike?

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OMG! Ponies! at 01:16 PM
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God dammit. I'm doing a document review gig in Newark, reading through a company's emails and what am I doing on lunch-break>
Reading someone else's emails.

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Richard at 01:17 PM
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@CodePink: @Aaron Altman: Keyboard = eskimo's ribcage.

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flossy at 01:17 PM
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On the one hand, wow. Awesome. On the other hand... this won't do much to dissuade her supporters of the persecution complex they've developed of late, now will it?

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bridgeburner at 01:17 PM
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I'm beginning to think she named her children after my high school senior year curriculum...Track and Trig. Now she just needs to birth a Chem and a Lit.

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AthertonMerriweather at 01:18 PM
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Elitist hackers!

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es-ki-mo at 01:18 PM
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Where's the email that says if Sarah just forwards it on to 12 more people, she'll be the Republican VP candidate?

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contradicto at 01:18 PM
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OK I am sorry but that is one cute baby!

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CodePink at 01:19 PM
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@Richard: mouse=a real Arctic mouse

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TedSez at 01:19 PM
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Uh-oh... Counter-Strike is more than a game when your computer knows the actual launch codes.
How about a nice game of chess?

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Spirit Fingers at 01:19 PM
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Ok. Coming out of snark for a minute. Please, please, tell me there's some damning evidence somewhere in here. It's great if it's legit, not so much if it does nothing to unearth the galactic bumble of a politician this woman is. Also, why is she sending letters to governor Conan? Uh, this will be on MSNBC later, right? So many questions...

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Aatom at 01:20 PM
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Sarah is 44 years old. odd.

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contradicto at 01:20 PM
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@Richard: There is no monitors in Alaska, the images are projected in the night sky when particles from the Earth's magnetosphere are charged just right.

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Richard at 01:20 PM
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@CodePink: power cord = Aleutian Island chain

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Our Lady of the Massacre at 01:20 PM
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See, 4chan is good for something. *ducks*

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jbwan at 01:20 PM
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it'd be funny if she had one of those "watch out Obama is Bin-Ladin's son" spam e-mails.

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CodePink at 01:20 PM
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@Aaron Altman: Oh, i didn't see your comment. awwwwwesome!

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Aatom at 01:20 PM
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This is pretty explosive for a Gawker exlcusive. I certainly hope you're exploring ways in which you can aid the investigation in Alaska, since she has decided that she just doesn't have to cooperate at all.

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HIV 2 Elway Resurrected at 01:21 PM
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Troopergate scandalYou can't just ad gate to the end of something and get some makeshift scandal. Watergate was is an actual hotel. Spygate, Troopergate, that's just lazy, uncreative journalism.

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dirtydeer at 01:21 PM
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@Spirit Fingers: Exactly. Is there anything newsworthy in these e-mails? Because, otherwise, what's the point? It's not like it's "I Don't Know What E-mail Is" Skeletor's personal e-mail. THAT would be news.

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It'll soon be shown that she has received and forwarded that "Footprints in the Sand" email, jpegs of puppies and daisy clipart intact, at least a dozen times and my mom's vote for her will be a lock.

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CodePink at 01:21 PM
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@Richard: @Aaron Altman: Computer screensaver: aurora borealis.

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BrutallyHonestBabes at 01:21 PM
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@Richard: The trick is training the moose to use them.

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StonedAndDethroned at 01:22 PM
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Ew. This feels dirty.

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Aaron Altman at 01:22 PM
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@Richard: @CodePink: Printer = Aleut calligrapher

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Dr.Montlopez at 01:22 PM
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So tempted to enact spam anarchy on this list. . . .

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SinisterRouge at 01:22 PM
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Holy shit. That's a lot of God in that one message.

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BrutallyHonestBabes at 01:23 PM
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@andBegorrah: Of course, she should be dead by now because she forgot to forward the one about Friendship to 7 of her best friends, the bitch.

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Aaron Altman at 01:24 PM
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@CodePink: Hah!
@CodePink: @Richard: Cursor = Blinking Eskimo

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Kid_Twist at 01:24 PM
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How can this be a real email account? There are no offers for free v1@gra.

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katastic at 01:24 PM
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Tell me, TELL me there's something that can sink them here.PLEASE.

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Dandy Darkly at 01:24 PM
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Shit! Sarah Palin is in contact with the mother of an exiled Kenyan general and could benefit from secret, international bank accounts worth $2.7 million American dollars.

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elizabklyn at 01:24 PM
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@jbwan: I think it's a list of 44 names he would've preferred over "track":...Lean Pipe Palin Chevy General Palin,Recoil Zoo Palin,Mustache Warthog Palin,WMD Cessna Palin...

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user5000 at 01:25 PM
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Oh, now see, this is how one has FUN on these here Tubez.

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Vidiot at 01:25 PM
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How on earth is this a Gawker "exclusive"? Did you grab it from Wikileaks?

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Richard at 01:25 PM
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@CodePink: @Aaron Altman: hard drive = small chamber deep in the base of Mt. McKinley.

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@Aaron Altman: The penis enlargement pill e-mails aren't spam, they're order tracking.

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Mount_Prion at 01:26 PM
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Clearly the spammers already know her penis is large enough, and have stayed away.

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kateblack at 01:26 PM
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@katastic: That's just what I was wishing for.

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faaap at 01:26 PM
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The power to bring down the McCain campaign was in the mountain dew coated hands of a 17 year old hacker. What could have possibly gone wrong?

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CodePink at 01:26 PM
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@Aaron Altman: @Richard: internet: bridge to nowhere

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user5000 at 01:27 PM
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Of course, if this is a real hack -- and it looks pretty promising -- and the Repubs get elected, there's gonna be a POGROM on these crazy kids out here on the Internetz.

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The Merovingian Bride at 01:27 PM
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I just hope Todd's personal email doesn't get hacked because if it does then I'm screwed (and so is Todd).

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I can't wait until someone cracks open her secret underground vault in Chicago.

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@acridsheep: He can always ask Ted Stevens for help: he's from Alaska and know all about how the tubes work.

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@CodePink: Their in-home network = Alaskan Pipeline.

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@Richard: Actually, I think it's the route from Juneau to Nome.

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@es-ki-mo: Just below that one she responded to about "natural male enhancement"...

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contradicto at 01:30 PM
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@Sarcastro: Their computer crash was the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

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Richard at 01:30 PM
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@Sarcastro: Hah! You can't drive out of Juneau. Juneau that? There are no roads leading in or out. This is a true fact!
@CodePink: Oregon Trail game = the Palin's driveway.

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if_i_only_had_a_heart at 01:30 PM
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there's no place like nome

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acridsheep at 01:30 PM
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If computer hackers weren't on Bush's original "Axis of Evil" list, McCain better see to it. And robots.

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The Dagrolord at 01:31 PM
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Former California Governor Gray Davis had a fool-proof plan to avoid email issues.
He didn't know how to use email.
If this report is accurate, in Sarah Palin we have a state Governor conducting state business with a web-based email provider notorious for its hackability.
Sweet.

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Sarcastro at 01:31 PM
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@Richard: That's what makes it a hard drive, mate.

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NefariousNewt at 01:31 PM
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@StonedAndDethroned: Everything about McCain and Palin feels dirty... you get used to it after a while.

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Smirk at 01:31 PM
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@BrutallyHonestBabes: Sarah has friends?

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CodePink at 01:31 PM
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@Richard: @Aaron Altman: MP3: the seal's mating call.

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uninspired at 01:32 PM
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Looks like McCain didn't invent password protection

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Sproing at 01:33 PM
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Amy needs strength to 1) keep employment and 2) not have to choose. Vice President Palin would love to take both those matters out of her hands.

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HeyThatsMyBike at 01:33 PM
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@Richard: But no gmail.

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rowaan at 01:34 PM
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@faaap: lol

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The Merovingian Bride at 01:35 PM
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Newsweek just broke a story that conservatives are now pushing the idea of moving Palin from the Vice Presidency to the Supreme Court if McCain wins the Presidency! There is just no stopping this dame!

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user5000 at 01:35 PM
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Track Palin's hotmail account is linked to this Xanga:
www.xanga.com/MachiavellianToMany
It's locked, but the screen name is pretty interesting.

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BrutallyHonestBabes at 01:36 PM
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@Smirk: Well, she has five kids, a husband and a shotgun named "Freedom".

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procrastinator, esq. at 01:36 PM
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@Aaron Altman: @CodePink: @Richard: Spyware = Siberian who got lost somewhere outside of Nome.

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NefariousNewt at 01:36 PM
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@The Merovingian Bride: But of course! She's certainly more qualified to be a Supreme Court Justice!
Going to go gouge my eyes out now...

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whiplashchick at 01:36 PM
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@Sproing: that's the email that makes me think this could be fake. do the religious "right" really think of themselves as "anti-choice?"
also, the dates of the emails could have been spoofed and the screen shots doctored.
all that said, Palin really may be this dumb. if so, I'm glad we found out now instead of after November.

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Aaron Altman at 01:37 PM
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@CodePink: @Richard: Antivirus software = rifle

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manic pixie flackette at 01:38 PM
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I wonder if McCain emails her from his Blackberry.

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katastic at 01:38 PM
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@The Merovingian Bride: NO. NO. NO. NO. NO.

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The Merovingian Bride at 01:38 PM
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@NefariousNewt: i would have thought you had to have a law degree to be on Supreme Court but maybe not. Or they could just give Sarah an honorary law degree from Oral Roberts University or someplace like that.

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Sproing at 01:39 PM
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@whiplashchick: Amy's "choice" may not be what we assume it is.

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little stripes at 01:39 PM
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GOD this woman is a moron.