There is immense incentive within the state of Alaska --- where Palin is extremely unpopular (in Wasilla, her hometown, her memoir is shelved at a bookstore under "Alaska Fiction") --- to charge Palin with crimes. She has been under near continuous investigation since assuming statewide office.

The only people I see suggesting that this email spool contained evidence of wrongdoing are partisan armchair legal theorists. And, for the record, I think Palin is a genuine force for evil in our country.

Is there, though? I mean, she was being investigated for a bunch of things, going after people who had p'd off her husband and such, and then it just dropped after she left office. Bush is unpopular too, but I don't see anyone going after any of the stuff that his admin did.

Meanwhile, if your email was hacked? No way the feds take the case. That's what I'm upset about, mostly. The dufus broke the law but it seems we have an entirely different standard for enforcement.

RE: evidence of wrongdoing, state business over personal email is illegal, period, and for very good reasons. This is professional ethics 101 if you've taken an oath to serve the public in elected office. If you're doing public business, it has to be on the record. It's legal not theory, it's legal fact.. if it applies to an Alderman, it applies to the Governor.

So, there are two wrongs here instead of one. So what? When did "two wrongs make a right" become the height of debate instead of a childish error?

And people wonder why I see "politics!" pouring forth from every orifice here. Put them both in jail. If that's what the rule of law demands, do it. Doesn't bother me. I want to live in a country where my elected officials do their dealings on the record as required by law and people are not allowed to break into my email merely because I am a politically unpopular target. (Thanks to the fact that I think this way, I'll never not be on the politically unpopular list if one is ever actually allowed to come into existence. Freedom's important.)