In 2008, two of Sarah Palin's personal Yahoo email accounts were hacked, revealing the existence of correspondence with other government officials like Alaska's Lieutenant Governor and even California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger outside any sunshine record-keeping requirements of the state government. Palin was eventually cleared of any wrong-doing with the account, despite the account being deleted before the investigation even started.
In what feels like the discovery of another tip of the same iceberg, ProPublica has a report about the Cuomo administration's adoption of similar tactics in New York.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 07 2014, @03:31AM
What, have we quickly forgotten how this was de rigueur for the whole Bush White House [wikipedia.org] (with the same "oops, I seemed to have deleted those" ending)?