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Email hacking: Burning the Bushes

The hacking of three years of Bush family e-mails by someone who calls himself or herself Guccifer isn’t a prank or a political statement. It’s a violation of privacy that every American family can relate to. In the ongoing struggle to define the boundaries of Internet crimes (witness the controversy after the recent suicide of Reddit founder Aaron Swartz), this one requires no hand-wringing. Guccifer is rightly the subject of a criminal probe by the Secret Service.

The e-mails, obtained by the website The Smoking Gun, include a raft of personal material, from get-well wishes from President and Mrs. Obama to the ailing George H.W. Bush to former president George W. Bush soliciting anecdotes about his father from his siblings. There was also a self-portrait by George W. Bush sent to his sister, Dorothy Bush Koch. And perhaps most alarmingly, there was the alarm security code for a Bush residence in Texas.

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Burning bushes ;That is a real bush , i have some in my yard . Since they began the spying and have taken away most civil rights , it is unfortunate that you (the Press has been silent ),and now we have new rights ;legal or not . 

Where was Bush 43 on 911 ;? Your paper on September 12, 2001 ,page A3 ,had a picture of the Pentagon . The front wall was still standing ,and did not fall until 40 minutes later . Would you like a copy of Chief Ed Plaugher testifying before the 911 Commission >? and what he actually did ? Gorelick was questoning him ( i mean ,putting words in his mouth ) .He was putty in their hands . Gorelick ,Marcus , Mueller ;the toip 3 investigators all worked for the same firm .Wilmer ,Hale Dorr Cutler Pickering . Cutler was the Attorney General under Carter ,ably succeeded by Fielding and Harriet (the puppet Myers . )Fielding has great credentials in Florida ;2000 election  . Tom Kean , is so tied to GHWB since 1984 ,. Aramark was a gift to Kean in 1994. Restaurants  at WTC and Pentagon .Whoia ,surprise ,surprise .  I thank tyou for your public service . Now Hjghlightt Senator Warren's war on big banks . Tell  Beth Healey not to print anymore large donors in the globe business section .