The now infamous Sarah Palin email hacker has been sentenced to just over one year at a halfway house, sparing him what many expected would be time behind bars for his attempts to derail her campaign during the 2008 presidential elections. According to the Associated Press, Federal Judge Thomas W. Phillips recommended be spared a prison sentence because of his struggles with depression which predate the incident.
Kernell apologized to Palin saying that the incident would undoubtedly affect him for the rest of his life, though it appears to have fallen on deaf ears. Palin’s official Facebook page was updated and compared the case to the 1972 Watergate scandal which led to Nixon’s resignation shortly thereafter. “As Watergate taught us, we rightfully reject illegally breaking into candidates’ private communications for political intrigue in an attempt to derail an election.”
Either way it did uncover the fact that not only did Sarah Palin conduct official state business using her Yahoo account, but that it could be accessed by simply guessing what high school she went to. Hopefully politicians who actually have juicy gossip to hide learned their lessons on this one
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