8 Feb 2013 7:52 pm
Bush Family E-mails HackedHOUSTON -- Members of the Bush family, including both former presidents, have apparently been hacked, and the Secret Service is investigating.The revelation came after Bush family photos and excerpts of email exchanges were posted online Thursday by the Smoking Gun, which attributed them to a hacker known as Guccifer. Guccifer claimed on the website to be a veteran hacker already being sought by the feds for hacking hundreds of accounts.This is just another chapter in the game, he wrote.The website reported that at least six email accounts had been hacked, including the AOL account of Dorothy Bush Koch, sister of George W. Bush, as well as former First Lady Barbara Bush's brother and the elder Bush's sister-in-law.The hacked emails, sent between 2009 and 2012, apparently contained security codes and a list of family addresses, emails and cellphone numbers.The leaked photos included intimate moments: a snapshot of George H.W. Bush that appeared to have been taken during his recent stay at a Houston hospital, a shot of George W. Bush posing with a cardboard cutout of himself wearing a beret, and paintings by the younger Bush of himself showering and in a bathtub.According to the leaked emails, the elder Bush's hospitalization prompted his son and other relatives to discuss funeral arrangements.The Smoking Gun reported that, "The former president's chief of staff wrote his children to inform them that 'your dad's funeral team is having an emergency meeting at 10 a.m. just to go through all the details.' The Bush aide, Jean Becker, noted that this information 'fell under the broadening category of things NOT TO TELL YOUR MOTHER.'"The Smoking Gun also reported that George W. Bush wrote he was 'thinking about eulogy' and 'solicited stories that best illustrated their father's sweet nature, favorite jokes, and acts of kindness. 'Hopefully I'm jumping the gun,' noted Bush."http://www.latimes.c...0,4693210.storyHoly crap, how embarassing. They were planning the old man's funeral and he wasn't even dead yet.The strangest thing to come out of this story are the two self portraits by W.Why do they make me think of waterboarding?