ACLU looks the other way?

Steve Tefft complains bitterly in his Barnstable Patriot column Sarah impaled that when vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's personal email account was recently hacked, "the privacy scolds of the ACLU and the mainstream media – always quick to question terrorist surveillance – looked the other way."

The ACLU doesn't encourage hacking, but Tefft doesn't seem to understand that the ACLU doesn't take on every kind of fight. We focus on government infringements of civil liberties -- which this hacking of a personal email account, apparently by an individual or group of individuals, wasn't.