MORE ON THE PALIN EMAIL HACK from Wired. (A Tennessee connection? Possibly.) While the whodunit aspect, and the invasion of privacy angle, have gotten a lot of press, this is probably the money quote:

The hacker said that he read all of the e-mails in the Palin account and found “nothing incriminating, nothing that would derail her campaign as I had hoped. All I saw was personal stuff, some clerical stuff from when she was governor…. And pictures of her family.”

Likely to backfire, it seems.

UPDATE: Reader Greg Nesmith emails: “How many public figures could withstand such scrutiny? If you let a hostile force loose in the private e-mail accounts of public figures, what would they find on Charlie Rangel? Harry Reid? Bill Clinton?” We may find out, now . . . .