I say BS.
McGutless, you could get a number of people to say they were threatened.
I hope they ‘were’ threatened with a ‘lawsuit’.
Go crawl back under your rock.
By sending that email, he opened up himself and Random House up to a major lawsuit, and everybody he named in the book will no doubt be sued and deposed too. Not only can the Palins sue, but so can anybody else he dragged through the mud. (Like Todd, Sarah's father, etc.) You can read the first chapter free on Amazon.com, and you'll see that any Palin haters he ever talked to in Wasilla are probably dirtying their diapers about now because they know it won't be long until they get their "lawyer letter."
This guy is so toxic, he obviously had one mission while in Alaska, and that was to try to get everybody he met to say something derogatory about Sarah, and then he twisted it and made it sound even worse. Just reading that first chapter on Amazon.com, you almost feel sorry for anybody he talked to. There are probably many people who rue the day they met him, and they're probably having nightmares of getting sued for evey penny they've got.