And you KNOW that she used it to hide official business, right? Has there been ANY such allegation? No there hasn't. If such an allegation comes forward, then fine, investigate.
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What these perps did is illegal. It's a violation of Alaska state law (punishable by up to 2 years) AND a violation of federal law (up to 5 years).
There is a pending lawsuit on behalf of several Republican state legislators in Alaska seeking access to the Yahoo accounts and alleging that just such a thing happened. Palin's lawyers have been fighting the subpeona for months.
Incidentally, no part of this incident took place in Alaska; and possibly no part crossed state lines (making it difficult to bring Federal charges based on the way the particular laws arre written). -- ISCABBS - the oldest and largest BBS on the Internet telnet://bbs.iscabbs.com Professional Geographer Geographic Information Science researcher