The Associated Press is reporting that Legislators have reached an agreement over the bailout plan.  Senator Bob Bennett said, “I now expect that we will indeed have a plan that can pass the House, pass the Senate (and) be signed by the president.”   Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee said, “We’ve reached a fundamental agreement on a set of principles,” and it looks like the legislation will get pumped through the house sometime soon, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi has not provided an exact time frame.   It appears as though most of this is just political crossfire and that there are no actual issues that divide the partisan line.   At least the no oversight phrase has been revised.
It also seems McCain’s “suspension” was mere rhetoric.  He said he was going back to Washington, canceling his interviews and rallys, but as seen on Letterman last night, where McCain was scheduled, McCain canceled that show to do an interview with Katie Couric for the evening news.   Some suspension of his campain.  Video of Letterman below:

Sometime last night a “hacker” on the forum 4chan.org also called /b/ and anonymous, managed to force their way into Sarah Palin’s personal Yahoo! email that had been the subject of some controversy.  She probably had used this personal email because of the lack of oversight and archiving that goes on for official government emails.  At the root of the this is the “troopergate” scandal, and if the accounts had any incriminating emails.  Too bad that sometime last night both her gov.sara@yahoo.com and gov.palin@yahoo.com accounts had been deleted.  Some are saying this constitutes descruction of evidence.  An overview of the “incident” from pastebin (9.17.08@3:45PST):

1. THE INCIDENT
3. WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR:
5. - Very recently an anonymous poster on /b/ claimed to have hacked Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account.
7. - Sarah Palin used the e-mail address gov.sarah@yahoo.com for public communication. Several media outlets have confirmed this fact prior to this “incident”.
9. SOURCE: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/10/palin-email-privilege/
10. SOURCE: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/09/15-7
12. - The e-mail address that the poster hacked was gov.palin@yahoo.com. This second e-mail address, previously unknown publicly, was used for private communcations.
14. - Yahoo e-mail addresses, unlike .gov e-mail addresses, are not subject to archiving and oversight. This fact has led to controversy from several sources, including fellow Republicans, asking her to release e-mails from her Yahoo account.
16. - The anonymous poster apparently panicked, and released the password onto /b/.
18. - Several other posters on /b/ took screenshots of the Inbox and various e-mails.
20. - Some of the screenshots reference several people in Alaska state government. One of these people is Sean Parnell, Lieutenant Governor of Alaska. Parnell mentions KFQD Radio’s Dan Fagan, to whom he gave an interview about Palin’s ACES initiative. Lt. Gov. Parnell’s e-mail address is verified via an Alaska Republican Central Committee contact listing.
22. SOURCE: http://gov.state.ak.us/aces/
23. SOURCE: http://www.alaskarepublicans.com/centralcommittee.aspx
25. - One of the screenshots references the Yahoo account fek9wnr, Todd Palin, Sarah’s husband who is at the heart of the controversy over her use of Yahoo e-mail for public dealings. The fek9wnr account was verified as being Todd Palin via a public posting to an automotive enthusiast BBS from August 2006.
27. SOURCE: http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/centurionconversions/message/2309
29. - Several photographs of her family were allegedly downloaded from the e-mail account.
31. - A scan of profiles.yahoo.com put gov.palin@yahoo.com’s profile update date at 04/05/2008, long before any VP nod was apparent. If this were a fake, the perpetrator would’ve had to travel into the past and create an account or be very good at guessing who the VP candidate would be 5+ months later, not to mention faking an overwhelming amount of e-mails, photographs, verified private cellphone numbers, and other information.
33. - A good samaritan in the /b/ thread reset the password account with the intention of handing it over to Palin, a process known on /b/ as “white knighting”. This locked everyone else out of the account. The “white knight” posted a screenshot to /b/ of his pending message to one of Palin’s contacts about how to recover the account, but made the critical mistake of not blanking out the new password he set.
35. - Several other people in the /b/ thread then apparently logged in using this new password, and they all attempted to reset the password at once, causing a security trap at Yahoo to automatically put a 24-hour lockout on the account.
38. THE AFTERMATH:
40. - Sarah Palin was likely notified of the breach by morning, as she had then deleted both the gov.sarah@yahoo.com address (the one subject to the disclosure controversy in the media) as well as the gov.palin@yahoo.com address (the one that was hacked).
42. - The outright deletion of the accounts can be verified by attempting to pull up the public profile on both addresses, which both existed during the incident.
44. SOURCE: http://profiles.yahoo.com/gov.palin
45. SOURCE: http://profiles.yahoo.com/gov.sarah
47. - Both accounts were deleted simultaneously, thus linking the publicly-known e-mail address “gov.sarah” and the private e-mail address “gov.palin”.
49. - This outright deletion may have the potential to be viewed as destruction of evidence, considering that the e-mails in the now-deleted accounts are the subject of several legal controversies.
51. SOURCE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090303210_pf.html
53. - Several ZIP, RAR, and 7Z compilations of the downloaded screenshots, contacts, and photos were made available by anonymous individuals.
55. - 4chan is actively (some say over-actively) banning and deleting any posts of the screenshots of Palin’s account, contacts, or family photos.
57. - An anonymous poster to 420chan, using information from the e-mail account’s contact list, attempted to call Bristol Palin’s cellphone number using the AT&T phone relay service. Several others allegedly called the cellphone number itself and got Bristol’s voicemail. These posts were quickly deleted by 420chan moderators.
59. - A poster on /b/ did a lookup on the cellphone number which returned this information:
61. Type: Cell Phone
62. Provider: Dobson Cellular Systems
63. Location: Palmer, AK
65. - An anonymous individual has uploaded some of the screenshots to a photobucket account.
67. SOURCE: http://s405.photobucket.com/albums/pp134/anoncrack/
69. - A poster in /r9k/ e-mailed the compilations to ABC News producer Eamon McNiff who he/she claims is a personal contact of his/hers.
71. - Someone submitted a summary to Digg. As of this writing it has only 12 diggs.
73. SOURCE: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/The_Incident_Did_4Chan_Anon_Hack_Palin_s_Yahoo_Email
75. - As of right now the media related to the incident sits mostly confined to 4chan and rapidshare, and thus either deleted, censored or under the radar.

Wikileaks has confirmed the authenticity of atleast one of the emails.  As the account dates back to 5 months before Palin was picked as VP, additionally there would be lots of fabrication and personal information that would have to be obtained for these to be faked.  If it looks real, smells real and tastes real, it probably is.    I just can’t believe Palin uses Yahoo! for her email as a state official.

GOP Presidential candidate Senator John McCain was recently interviewed by a local TV station in Maine, when asked about Palin’s foreign policy experience his reputation of straight talk was put to the test.

Reporter: “You’re sure she has the experience, but again I’m just asking for an example. What experience does she have in the field of national security?”

McCain: “Energy.  She knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America. She is the Governor of a state where 20% of our energy supply comes from there and we all know that energy is a critical and vital national security issue. We’ve got to stop sending 700 billion dollars of American money to countries that don’t like us very much. She’s very well versed on that issue and she, uh, also represents is a Governor of a state that is right next to Russia and ah, ah, she really understands Russia and their newly aggressive behavior in the world which is also something that we have to be very concerned about.”

Erm, what?  A Governor from Alaska knows more about energy than say, a university professor, or maybe John Dingell, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee?  Senator, the question was about foreign policy not energy policy, so much for straight talk.

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