The Sarah Palin Files: FBI and Secret Service Launch an Investigation

The Wikileaks website that posted e-mail and photos from Republican vice-presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin's personal Yahoo e-mail account appears down at this time. The site, which is dedicated to publishing leaked governmental, corporate, or religious documents, has not been accessible since yesterday when it posted five e-mail screenshots, contact lists, a partial list of received e-mail, and two family pictures found in Palin's hacked Yahoo account. [UPDATE: The Wikileaks page on Palin's email, complete with pictures, seems to be back up.]

Initial reports of Palin's Yahoo account hack were unverified until Rick Davis, campaign manager for John McCain, released a statement Wednesday calling the hack a "shocking invasion of the governor's privacy and a violation of law."

Today come reports that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Secret Service have launched an investigation into Palin's hacked account.

CNN is reporting FBI Spokesman Eric Gonzalez confirmed an investigation is under way.

According to the CNN report, Gonzalez stated:

"We are aware of the allegations and we are coordinating with Secret Service as far as the allegation that someone has hacked into Governor Palin's personal e-mail account... We are going to be working a joint investigation with Secret Service on this."

Meanwhile new questions have also been raised as to Palin's use of her private e-mail account for official business of the government. Critics have accused Palin of using private e-mail accounts for circumventing public record laws.

A group called Anonymous is taking responsibility for hacking Palin's Yahoo e-mail account. According to the Wikileaks site: "Circa midnight Tuesday the 16th of September (EST) activists loosely affiliated with the group 'anonymous' gained access to U.S. Republican Party Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account gov.palin@yahoo.com and passed information to Wikileaks."

In case the page goes down again, you can view an image of the original Wikileaks "Sarah Palin Yahoo inbox 2008" page here.

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