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UT Student suspected of hacking VP's email...and his Dad is a Dem State Senator from Memphis

State rep confirms that son is subject of Palin e-mail chatter
By THEO EMERY • Staff Writer • September 18, 2008

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080918/NEWS02/80918081

State Rep. Mike Kernell confirmed Thursday that his son, a University of Tennessee-Knoxville student, is at the center of heated Internet discussion into the hacking of the personal e-mail of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Kernell, a Memphis Democrat, confirmed that it is his 20-year-old son, David, who is being widely named on Internet blogs and chatrooms in connection with an unfolding story about Palin's hacked e-mail accounts.

The FBI and the Secret Service started a formal investigation on Wednesday into the hacking.David Kernell is a student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Mike Kernell said he spoke to his son on Thursday, as he does on a regular basis.Kernell otherwise declined to comment, or discuss his son’s whereabouts.