Ensign cites Palin case in email deletion defense

According to The Hill, lawyers representing the sex-scandal afflicted former Sen. John Ensign invoked Sarah Palin in a 12-page letter defending their client to the Senate Ethics Committee last week. The panel expressed concern that Ensign's deletion of a personal Google email account could have resulted in the destruction of evidence that could pertain to an ethics investigation. In response, Ensign's attorneys write that he deleted the account because the address had been made public in a New York Times report. "Once news made clear that former Gov. Palin's accounts had been hacked, Sen. Ensign was concerned the hackers would gain access to his emails and computer data," the letter says, referencing the password-guessing breach of Palin's Yahoo account in September 2008. Read more, here.