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When Alaska Govenor Sarah Palin's Yahoo Email was hacked last week it was reported that authorities were looking hard at David Kernell, a 20-year old college student and the son of Mike Kernell, a Democrat that just happens to be a state senator in the state of Tennessee.

Police Raid Apartment in Sarah Palin EMail Case

Many are now searching for the six degrees of separation between the campaign of Barack Obama and Mike Kernell of Tennessee. Is there a connection? According to a report from Fox News, FBI agents served a warrant at a residence at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. The raid was on the college residence of David Kernell, a student at the university.


According to reports the authorities crashed a party when they conducted the late night raid. The FBI agents arrived around midnight at Kernell's apartment to serve the warrant and there was a party going on at the residence. Fox News reports that a witness told a local television station that they took photos inside Kernell's apartment and that his three roommates were subpoenaed to testify this week in Chattanooga.

One report notes that David Kernell is a member of the group UT for Barack Obama. See screen shots of his now defunct Facebook account here. What should happen to the person that hacked into Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account?