FBI searches apartment of suspected Sarah Palin hacker

Early yesterday, the FBI served a search warrant at the apartment of a university student widely suspected of being involved in the Sarah Palin email hack.

According to reports, early on Sunday morning FBI agents arrived at 20-year-old David Kernell’s apartment in the city of Knoxville, Tennessee, interrupting a student party.

Kernell, who is studying at the University of Tennessee, and the son of state democratic representative Mike Kernell, has been widely named across the internet as being potentially linked to the hacking.

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