Posted on 06/04/2011 9:40:55 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000
As they prepare to finally cough up more than 24,000 pages of Sarah Palin's emails gleaned from her brief, odd stint as governor, Alaska officials tut-tut they are going to withhold 2,415 pages from the public. Why? Those communications are privileged, personal or somehow exempt from Alaska's disclosure laws. Or so they say.
How convenient. Guess where the good stuff will be. No, really. Guess. Now, you might wonder, as I do, how emails sent or received by a governor or her minions on state time, using state resources, yakking about state business can be personal or exempt from disclosure laws. But state officials say there is the right to privacy thing and the attorney-client privilege thing and the "deliberative process" thing. Apparently -- and it was a shock to me -- there is no public's right to know thing.
Who made these decisions? It turns out state lawyers and folks in the governor's office -- where some, it turns out, worked for Palin but now work for Gov. Sean Parnell, who was Palin's lieutenant governor -- made the calls on those 2,415 emails. Not an impartial panel of citizens and lawyers, or folks lacking direct or indirect ties to the authors of the emails or any court. Just insiders.
Activist Andree McLeod, a much-maligned Palin critic, has been seeking the emails forever.
"I don't hold out much hope that all of these emails haven't been scrubbed of any incriminating information," she told the Daily News.
Who in their right mind would?
It would seem to me, and I'm no lawyer, that if a governor offers even a grocery list or a snarky attack on state time, using state resources, it should be -- tough noogies -- the public's business. And privileged?
(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...
Andree McLeod needs to get a life..and the Anchorage Daily News, I remember when Sarah sent them a letter once telling them that they are a pile of crap, or something to that effect..no one even reads that nasty ol paper anymore
I understand. It's sorta like a certain president who stonewalled on his birth certificate. He came up with one. Or so they say. Withholding the 'good stuff'. I read you loud and clear.
Her “odd stint as Governor”? You would think they would be proud of their first female, and youngest Governor that was chosen as the candidate to become Vice President of the United States by the GOP, and appears to be a leading candidate for President in 2012, if an Alaskan newspaper can’t find that praise worthy and historic, then they are too deeply radical to be taken serious.
Here what comes? I followed the ADN for a few months just before and just after the 2008 election. They are as biased as any New England Rag. And leftist bloggers from all over the country have set up shop there to convince the rest of Alaska and America that all Alaskans hate Palin. At some point it will occur to the average voter that while Palin is getting the treatment obama gets a pass, and that only works when the economy is soaring. Guess what? It’s not.
Of course the ADN pines for the old days of just good ole’ boys stealing stuff fair and square. Odd is what Alaska was before Palin, but the ADN would never admit that in a million years.
hmm. so Paul knows the difference between a ‘real’ and a ‘faux’ Republican? how cute.
I wonder how Paul would feel if every Democrat governor or mayor had to reveal every email they ever wrote - I have an idea! - let’s start with Governor Moonbeam!
I was thinking about that today, how Palin has finally connected Alaska to the lower 48.
Alaska seems more a part of us than it ever has, it does not seem so far away and remote, and unattainably exotic anymore, I bet she really helps tourism.
Later I found http://unsheathed45.blogspot.com/2010/11/paul-jenkins-and-why-halibut-should-be.html
Wow, forever as in from the Creation of the Universe, or forever as in the Planet Earth being formed?
I left out that Palin has made Alaska appear modern, youthful. vigorous, and outdoorsy all at the same time, a place where soccer moms and teenagers drive SUVs and fit in with hunters and bears.
What is the author’s opinion of Obama’s “transparent” administration?
The vicious Rats who attacked the post-election Palin through the loophole guaranteed her governorship was going to be “odd” whether she approached it the way she did, or she somehow engineered a way to fight it tooth and nail.
I don’t know how she survives, to see this big of a personality is startling, but to see it in a female. America has never seen this level of female leadership.
Sarah Palin does not see the struggle as being just herself, but herself-and-God, and backed by the promise that God will finish what He started. In addition to being true, this also helps greatly to level the mind under conditions of severe trial.
He clearly has no idea how long it takes to comb through 24,000 pages of anything. 1% are being held back. That's not a lot and you can bet some deep pocket will file suit to get that 1% too.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn AK was legitimately not prepared in personnel or IT infrastructure to handle the breadth of requests.
The extreme scrutiny is a bit eyeopening particularly considering the completely lack thereof with Obama.
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Sounds like you’re on the side of the Liberal wolves, Paul, and those corrupt politicians in Alaska that Governor Palin got rid of!
July 26 marks the end of the two year statute of limitation on filing ethics charges against her. Just sayin’ ...
Thes people are never happy. They want a signed confession with witnesses. And they want it yesterday. Seems like they know they have nothing much on Palin, but they’ll spin hard ....
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