The folks at Gawker have posted screen shots from an apparantly hacked Yahoo! personal email account belonging to Sarah Palin.
The account reveals key email addresses, correspondence, a few pix and exchanges.
Emails from this account already were being sought in the Troopergate investigation, a simmering scandal that worried the McCain camp enough to air-drop a recon team of lawyers, politicos and PR flaks.
Was she surreptitious using the account for official business instead of her government account? Is critical evidence now destroyed? Maybe it's all just a practical joke by Carly Fiorina...?
UPDATE: Palin's info was posted on Wikileaks, but the site has been down for a few hours due to traffic and/or official intervention.
The Washington Post coverage quotes Andrée McLeod (the activist who filed a FOIA for Palin's emails) and her lawyer, who make the most relevant observations:
"If this woman is so careless as to conduct state business on a private e-mail account that has been hacked into, what in the world is she going to do when she has access to information that is vital to our national security interests?"
"There's a reason the governor should be using her own official e-mail channels, because of security and encryption," the attorney said. "She's running state business out of Yahoo?"