DEBATE FACT #5: RATING THE TWO CANDIDATES, JohnMcCain.com.

CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE: Barack Obama Has A Low Lifetime Rating Compared To John McCain's High Lifetime Rating

* Citizens Against Government Waste Gave Obama A Lifetime Rating Of 18 Percent. (Citizens Against Government Waste, "2007 Senate Ratings," councilfor.cagw.org, Accessed 10/4/08)

*Citizens Against Government Waste Gave McCain A Lifetime Rating Of 88 Percent. (Citizens Against Government Waste, "2007 Senate Ratings," councilfor.cagw.org, Accessed 10/4/08

Update: Tennessee man indicted for hacking Palin's e-mail account, InfoWorld.

David C. Kernell was indicted Tuesday on a single charge of accessing a protected computer by a grand jury in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee in Knoxville. The indictment, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, was unsealed Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Hope, Change, & Lies: Orchestrated "Grassroots" Smear Campaigns & the People that Run Them, The Jawa Report. 

Extensive research was conducted by the Jawa Report to determine the source of smears directed toward Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Those smears included false allegations that she belonged to a secessionist political party and that she has radical anti-American views.

FBI Searches Apartment of Tennessee Student Suspected of Palin Hack, Threat Level.

FBI agents executed a search warrant Sunday at the apartment of University of Tennessee student David Kernell in connection with the hack of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's private Yahoo account.

According to a witness, several agents arrived at Kernell's Knoxville apartment in The Commons student housing complex shortly after midnight on Sunday morning while a party was in progress.