From Eric Dondero:

The David Kernell email hacking of Sarah Palin story is back in the news. Gov. Palin has been called to be a star witness in the case before U.S. District Judge Clifford Shirley. The trial begins in two weeks, and Palin will be called to testify sometime next month.

According to Scripps News service:

Kernell, the son of longtime Democratic Memphis state Rep. Mike Kernell, faces a four-count indictment accusing him of stealing Palin's identity, improperly accessing her personal e-mail account, allowing at least one other person to access it and trying to wipe from his laptop evidence of his alleged crimes. He is alleged to have committed the crimes while attending the University of Tennessee.

You may recall, Libertarian Republican blog was the political website that broke this story wide open in September of 2008. Two Techie blogs first reported on the hacking, and two hours later we picked up the story, and reported on Kernell's political motivations. We were also the very first to alert the Memphis Daily and the (Nashville) Tennessean to the story, where eventually the larger national stories emenated from. Days later, we were successful in linkin Kernell to his father, State Rep. Mike Kernell, and directly to the Tenneseans for Obama campaign.

Needless to say, we had a lot of help. We were assisted by a number of other on-line sleuths on the Right most notable HotAir.com regular commenter "Canadian Cowboy," Tennessee radio talk show host Terry Frank, and David Kittely of Abilene, Texas.

Now that the story is back in the news, a great many websites are once again crediting Libertarian Republican. As one of the stories below mentions, we were able to capture (with the great assistance of David Kittely!), the screen shot of Kernell's link directly to a top official in the Obama campaign, literally hours before the page was scrubbed by Democrat operatives. (Note - the image is forever in LR archives, and cannot be eliminated.)

We've been recently credited by The Cypress Times, A Time for Choosing, and Palin Tribe.

From Palin Twibe:

Terry Frank was all over this at the time and managed to get a lot of screen shots from the G.Gordon Liddy wannabe’s Facebook page. You can read more here

As you read, you will notice commenter after commenter start referencing young David’s Technorati page and the fact that there appears to be more than a tenuous connection between David and Barack Obama’s campaign manager, David Plouffe.

In fact, a quick look though multiple sources will find references to this, and include a link:

http://www.technorati.com/search/%22david+kernell%22?authority=a4&language=en

Unfortunately, either Kernell or Technorati have scrubbed the website, and nothing on our master spy can be found. But, as luck would have it, the folks over at Libertarian Republican captured a screen shot:

Eric Dondero writes this for the website:

In another bizarre twist to the Sarah Palin email hacking story, the prime suspect in the FBI investigation David Kernell of Tennessee, had a video produced by Barack Obama for President Campaign Manager David Plouffe on his Technorati Search Page.

Libertarian Republican blog interviewed Computer Applications Specialist Dave Kittley of Abilene, Texas this evening. Kittley discovered the video link late yesterday, and captured it in a screen shot. (The black pen markings on the screenshot are from Kittley).

Kittley asserts that it is a very strange coincidence that the Plouffe video would show up right on Kernell's Technorati page. One possible explanation according to Kittley: Kernell's name might be in the credits for the production of the Plouffe video.

Plouffe is known to be a big advocate of NetRoots, a gathering of Leftwing Bloggers, formerly known as Yearly Kos, who often engage in on-line mischief against political opponents. Obama produced a personal video to the NetRoots convention which was held in Austin, Texas the weekend of July 16. Kittley told LR that is entirely possible that Kernell might be a member of the NetRoots community.

Kittlery also pointed out to LR that the video, which encourages volunteers to become the "cavalry" of the Obama campaign, has since dissappeared from Kernell's Technorati page. He has the screen shot in his possession, and has graciously made the screenshot from yesterday available to LR and to a limited number of websites covering the Palin email hacking story.

Although there was a lot of effort to scrub things, thanks to the folks at Free Republic, we found the INCREDIBLY boring video of Plouffe rallying the troops. The one referenced on Kernell’s Technorati page...

Of course, we plan to give full coverage to the Kernell trial. Additionally, it goes without saying we stand ready to assist all law enforcement, and investigator's on the case.