Son of Democrat State Lawmaker in Tennessee is Suspect in Palin Email Hacking

Matt Margolis

Any big surprise here?

The 20-year-old son of a Democratic state lawmaker in Tennessee was being cited on the Internet yesterday as a suspect in the hacking of vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s e-mail.

State Rep. Mike Kernell told The Tennesseean newspaper that his son, David Kernell, a student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, is the person being mentioned on blogs as the e-mail thief who bared Palin’s private correspondence to the world.

Kernell said he spoke to his son yesterday, but he declined further comment about the case.