I disagree. This is a HUGE issue.
Just as the White House used personal, private emails to talk about public business, with the SOLE intention of getting around transparency laws and not having to archive, save, or produce those emails as part of an subpoena, if she and her staff did this to avoid oversight and documentation of her official duties, it is probably the most important thing about her I have heard so far. If she did it for ease, or personal reasons, but was still conducting public business, and those emails are not part of the public record, then she erred in judgement by losing part of the electronic trail of her time in office. A lesser sin, to be sure, but one that should be corrected now. If they were just personal emails, or business emails that needed to be handled in personal space due to time or that were not part of her official job, then no problem at all. On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Maureen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have worked for the State of Florida and the State of California. > In both instances, it was common to communicate with co-workers, or to > forward business email to my personal account because I often needed > the info and the state email accounts were behind firewalls and not > accessible from home. In both cases, it was neither illegal or > improper as long as I did not forward any sensitive internal > information. There is no evidence that Palin had any sensitive or > secret info in her Yahoo account. > > As a consultant, I conduct all my email business using the same > account to communicate with my clients that I use for my personal > stuff. That also is neither illegal or improper. > > However, if the accounts were hacked, the hacker would be committing a > crime and I would expect him or her to be prosecuted to the fullest. > > The uproar over Palin using an Yahoo account is a tempest in a teapot. > There are a wide variety of reasons not to want her as VP. This > isn't one of them. It does, however, prevent the media and bloggers > from focusing on the real issues once again. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:270236 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
