Panel finds Palin abused power; Judge orders email from her private accounts be preserved
In Alaska, a legislative panel investigating vice-presidential Sarah Palin has issued a report finding the governor unlawfully abused her authority by firing the state's public safety commissioner. Also, remember that hacked Yahoo Mail account she used to hide correspondence from subpoenas? This is an excerpt from the New York Times: [blockquote] In another setback for Ms. Palin, a judge on Friday ordered the state of Alaska to preserve any government-related e-mail messages that Gov. Sarah Palin sent from private accounts. The ruling, by Craig Stowers of Anchorage superior court, came as the result of a lawsuit brought by a resident, Andree McLeod, against Ms. Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee. Ms. Palin has occasionally used private e-mail accounts to conduct state business, and her Yahoo accounts were hacked last month. The judge ordered the attorney general to contact Yahoo and other private carriers to preserve any e-mail messages sent and received on those accounts. An assistant attorney general told the court that the governor was no longer using here private e-mail accounts to conduct state business. [/blockquote][a href="vny!://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Palin-Troopergate.html"]Legislative Panel: Palin Abused Authority[/a]