If it's gov't business, it's not personal e-mail anymore Sarah

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Thursday September 18, 2008 · 1:33 PM PDT

2008/09/18 · 13:33

The hack of Sarah Palin's personal e-mail has so many wonderful ironies. The most potent, as has been pointed out by many, is the McCain campaign's statement that it represents "a shocking invasion of the Governor's privacy and a violation of law." Yes, as we always knew, the Republicans are worried about privacy when it involves their own, but not so much when it involves yours.

But perhaps as lovely, though, is how the hack puts on display the transparent effort by Sarah, and Karl Rove before her, to avoid the oversight of the people they seek to lead by using private e-mail accounts to conduct (no doubt corrupt) government business. Congress and the Courts haven't been able to figure out how to get these e-mails, but one enterprising hacker did. Maybe it's time we made clear that if you're doing government business (or in Rove's case, subverting the Constitution and politicizing the Justice Department), all of your e-mail will be subject to review just as in any other subsequent criminal or civil investigation. If it suddenly goes missing, as in Rove's case, you go to jail for obstruction of justice, just like everyone else.

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