The Omaha World-Herald is at it again. The editor on Monday chastised the Huffington Post for running articles about unnamed individuals hacking into Sarah Palin's email accounts. It showed "election-season hysteria" and a "disturbing disregard for someone's privacy."
Of course, what the World-Herald failed to note was that the reason Palin's email accounts were hacked is that she deliberately created and used personal accounts to conduct official Alaskan government business while avoiding the oversight legally required of anyone sitting in the governor's office.
Don't get me wrong. I do not condone illegal activities (as a rule) such as hacking. But I don't condone illegal conduct of official government business, either. There's plenty of wrong to go around on all sides in this slimy little scenario.
I wish the World-Herald had spoken out as strongly against the improper and probably illegal behavior of the one being hacked as it did against the hackers . . . who, for all we know, are the moral equivalent of whistle-blowers.
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