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(AP, Duncan Mansfield, 10/08/2008) David Kernell, 20, of Knoxville, Tenn. entered the plea in federal court in Knoxville, the same day prosecutors unsealed an indictment charging him with intentionally accessing Palin's e-mail account without authorization.

Kernell, an economics student at the University of Tennessee... (son of)
longtime state Rep. Mike Kernell of Memphis, chairman of Tennessee's House Government Operations Committee. The lawmaker has said he had nothing to do with the hacking incident.

David Kernell was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Knoxville and faces a maximum of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release. Trial is set for Dec. 16.

I say, hackers and identity thieves should be treated as if aiding and abetting or even promoting terrorism, and treated more harshly.   David Kernell's  parents, if David hacked from home, should be held accountable and his father removed and censured from public office.  

If you had your private e-accounts posted online and and family info (including phone numbers, etc.) given to the world to promote abuse against you, your family and friends...how would you feel?  

Is there any moral outrage over this?

If it were Obama's e-mails, there would be daily 24/7 coverage.  Double standards?

In my opinion, this incident should be handled as a domestic terrorism threat, since it was directed against a Vice Presidential candidate of our country.  It would be serious indeed if it turned out that this was actually enabled by an elected official.  Because this involves computer hacking, this is way past a Watergate-level sort of break-in.

The fear and loathing being directed at Palin right now is Bush-worthy; meaning that if the McCain-Palin ticket wins, the same strange F&L that was directed toward one man for eight years is going to be refocused on Palin, and not necessarily on McCain.  Note how swiftly this hacking was undertaken.  She is truly an election threat to NObama.  Good girl.

I agree with what you have said except the "his parents should be held accountable' part.

He's an adult, and unless his parents were co-conspirators, I don't see how they can be held accountable for merely letting him use their computer. (Liken that to me letting my adult son -if I had one- borrow my car, and he used it in an armed robbery as a get away car. No parental culpability involved.)

Of course, I am moraly outraged at the entire Socialist/Democrat Party, and the full-blown Marxist they are trying to get elected....so I'm a bit biased. ~