Hope, Change, & Lies: Orchestrated "Grassroots" Smear Campaigns & the People that Run Them, The Jawa Report. 

Extensive research was conducted by the Jawa Report to determine the source of smears directed toward Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Those smears included false allegations that she belonged to a secessionist political party and that she has radical anti-American views.

FBI Searches Apartment of Tennessee Student Suspected of Palin Hack, Threat Level.

FBI agents executed a search warrant Sunday at the apartment of University of Tennessee student David Kernell in connection with the hack of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's private Yahoo account.

According to a witness, several agents arrived at Kernell's Knoxville apartment in The Commons student housing complex shortly after midnight on Sunday morning while a party was in progress.