Palin Email Hacker Claims It Was All Just a Joke

The wimpy curly-haired kid of a Tennessee Democrat is facing 50 years in prison for hacking into Sarah Palin’s email and for obstructing justice. His brilliant defense in court? “Ha ha, it was all just a joke! Its funny, don’tchagetit?”

From the AP here:

Jurors in the trial of a former college student charged with hacking Sarah Palin’s e-mail account in 2008 heard testimony Tuesday that the accused man didn’t believe in what Palin wanted to do when she was the Republican vice presidential candidate.

Palin has been subpoenaed to testify at the trial of 22-year-old David Kernell, and Todd Palin, and their daughter, Bristol, are also potential witnesses in the trial that could last a week or longer.

Kernell’s attorney told a federal jury that his client had no criminal intent and guessed his way into Palin’s personal e-mail.

However, Kernell’s former college roommate gave his testimony to open the trial.

“He definitely talked about how he didn’t believe in what she wanted to do,” David Omiecinski, Kernell’s former University of Tennessee roommate, testified as the chief prosecutor used video monitors to show jurors copies of the e-mail and obscenity-laced Internet postings traced to Kernell.

Omiecinski said he and others were having a party in Kernell’s absence at their apartment days later when FBI agents seized Kernell’s laptop.

Defense attorney Wade Davies said Kernell’s actions were a prank and that he tried to brag about it afterward and respond to Internet messages that accused him of lying. Davies said Kernell openly left an online trail to himself that the government has mixed into four felony charges. Davies said Kernell never tried to destroy any evidence on his laptop and that he was crying when called the FBI after learning of the investigation.

So it was a prank and he openly left a trail back to himself, but then burst into tears when the FBI got involved? What a sissy moron! Did he think the FBI would think his actions were clever and cute? This is going to be a short trial if the defense is admitting to the crimes. See previous story here.