Gov. Palin's 2nd Private Email Account used for Government Business

A second private yahoo email account being used by Governor Palin for both personal and State Business was recently hacked. Although I do not condone cyber-hacking as a means to discover the truth, I think the larger issue is that the information released confirms that that she was conducting government business through the use of private email; circumventing the law and requirements for retention of communications. It also demonstrates another reason why government business shouldn't be conducted on Yahoo email accounts - it is not secure, and easily hacked.

A criminal investigation of Governor Palin's actions by the FBI and/or the Alaska State attorney general is warranted and should be pursued. This is as blatant a violation as I think you'll ever see.

Screen shots and some photos are still available at gawker.com this morning. I saw one entry on the list of emails that concerns the draft of a letter to Gov. Schwarzenegger regarding a new container tax(fee). This is a subject that I've blogged about, but is not widely known. Seeing that email listing for the draft of that letter tells me that this is most likely legitimate information, and not a 'fake'. There is further information that lends credibility to the existence of this email account (now deleted, in an attempt to destroy it's contents along with the 1st account that was previously reported in the news) in the FoxNews story and at gawker.com.

How about it FBI - perhaps a subpoena to Yahoo for it's server backups will yield proof for criminal prosecution? The screen shots show email coming in from government accounts. Those outbound emails should be archived - so why were they sent to an outside Yahoo account of the governors?