Governor Palin Testifies in E-Mail Hacking Trial

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Governor Palin Testifies in E-Mail Hacking Trial – Steve Osunsami – ABC News

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, taking the stand this morning in the trial of a former college student accused of breaking into her Yahoo! e-mail account during the 2008 presidential campaign, said the incident caused “disruption” and wasn’t “right.”

As her husband Todd looked on, Palin told jurors she first discovered her account had been breached when watching a TV news report from the campaign trail in Michigan. The Secret Service and a campaign aide later confirmed it was true, she said.

Palin testified that her “gov.palin” e-mail account and red Blackberry were her primary means of keeping in touch with her family in Alaska as she campaigned as the Republican vice presidential nominee. She said the breach caused a huge “disruption” in her family members’ personal and professional lives.

“Friends and family had to change their contacts and e-mails,” she told reporters outside the courtroom of the fallout from the hack job. “It’s not right, it’s not legal, it’s not fair and decent…I don’t think an illegal action like this was a college prank.”

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From WBIR – Knoxville

Sarah Palin has taken the stand in the David Kernell trial. She testified for approximately 45 minutes, then left the stand.

Though she entered the building through a side door and under a shroud of secrecy–when she might testify or even if she might testify was the subject of rumors around town–she exited the court through the front doors, where local, regional, and national media cameras were waiting.

Palin briefly made comments for the cameras, then headed out.

She said it was “hurtful” that some of the photos in her e-mail of her son Trig had been disseminated as a result of the e-mail invasion. She said those photos had been distorted.

She also talked about how the breach of her e-mail account required the changing of several phone numbers and how that impeded contact with her children as she traveled.

“A mama wants to be there to help the kids, so it was a big darn deal to have that communication stripped away,” Palin said.

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