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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: American Spirit who wrote (11680)7/4/2007 11:37:41 AM
From: Ann Corrigan  Read Replies (1) of 224750
 
Clinton's Chief Strategist Is Accused of Illegal Eavesdropping

By Sara Kugler
Associated Press
July 4, 2007

NEW YORK, July 3 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief strategist is being accused of illegal eavesdropping in a lawsuit that alleges he and his polling firm monitored the personal e-mails of a former associate who started a rival company.

Mitchell E. Markel, a former vice president at Penn, Schoen & Berland, claims in the lawsuit that the firm began monitoring all messages sent from his personal BlackBerry device nearly a month after he had resigned and become president of his new business. The suit claims that Mark Penn, who is Clinton's chief strategist and pollster, knew about and approved of the monitoring, which the suit says violates federal wiretapping laws.

Penn, Schoen & Berland, which has helped elect clients such as former president Bill Clinton and New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, is accused of hacking into Markel's BlackBerry and rigging his e-mail accounts to send copies of his e-mail to another account that the firm had set up. The suit says the BlackBerry that Markel used was always his own, never the property of his former employer.

The lawsuit was filed Friday in State Supreme Court in Manhattan.

Markel learned his e-mail was being monitored from a prior lawsuit because the suit quotes e-mail conversations they were having about doing business with clients of their former firm.
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