Update: FBI Crash David Kernell's University of Tennessee Party In The Name Of Palingate

So, as OTR reported last week, David Kernell is at the center of the Palin email hacking controversy, which TechCrunch so originally coined Palingate. Well, the FBI isn’t messing around with this one.
 

Late Saturday night (really, early Sunday morning), FBI agents burst into a party at the University of Tennessee student’s Fort Sanders apartment. And you were worried about the regular cops for a lousy noise violation? According to attendees, the FBI-turned-party-police got everyone’s names at the party and then took pictures of everything inside. Conveniently, though, Kernell and his friends snuck out while leaving his three roommates to be subpoenaed. Really nice. Still, so far at least, there doesn’t seem to be any search warrants and no charges filed.
 

So how did Kernall get tied to this whole mess in the first place? TechCrunch explains:

As Wired reports , the blogosphere says someone going by the name “Rubico” on the 4chan forum admitted to hacking Palin’s email. Rubico’s handle was then connected to an e-mail address which tentatively identified the owner as a college student in Tennessee. It’s clear that the “hack” was simply created by reseting Palin’s password using her birthdate, ZIP code and information about where she met her spouse - all information freely available online. So who should be in court here? A college kid, or Yahoo’s email security people?

They raise an interesting question. But the fact remains, screw around with a vice-presidential candidate under Secret Service protection and be ready to feel the heat.
 

Besides the obvious consequences of the FBI on your tail, Kernell is now experiencing the media stranglehold. Terryfrank.net has published screenshots of the kid’s Facebook account (as you can see above). On one hand, he is a member of the group UT for Barack Obama, so maybe he really is working for the big guy.
 

But, on the other hand, his activities state “real men fishing with spears.” Sounds like a Palin supporter after all.