The headline CNSNews.com stuck on a Sept. 18 Associated Press article about hackers breaking into a Yahoo! email account that Sarah Palin used for official Alaska state business reads: “Palin’s Emails Hacked: A.P. Won’t Help Secret Service.” That apparently is derived from the following paragraph in the article:
The Secret Service contacted The Associated Press on Wednesday and asked for copies of the leaked e-mails, which circulated widely on the Internet. The AP did not comply.
Given that the leaked emails were “circulated widely on the Internet” — and given that the AP had no apparent role in the hacking beyond reprinting what the emails said — why does the AP need to give copies of them to the Secret Service? CNS offers no evidence that the AP had access to any information beyond what was “circulated widely,” so it has no real basis to accuse the AP of failing to “help” the Secret Service.