Quest for Palin e-mails may exceed her time in office

[Andy823]

http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...-in-office

Quote:You can do the math.
Alaska state regulations require public officials to make public records available to the public within 10 days in most cases.

On Monday evening, Sarah Palin's former staff in the Alaska governor's office requested another delay in making public 25,000 e-mails exchanged by Palin, her husband and her senior aides. The governor's office is asking the state's attorney general to approve a delay of five more months, until May 30, 2011. At that point, the request filed by msnbc.com and other news organizations will have been pending for 986 days. Sarah Palin was governor of Alaska for 966 days.

In other words, if the delay is granted, the wait for the e-mails will have lasted longer than the Palin administration. News organizations, including NBC News, msnbc.com and the Associated Press, requested the e-mails in 2008 after the relatively unknown Palin was chosen as Republican Sen. John McCain's vice-presidential candidate. We're told that there are about 25,700 e-mails, with an unknown number of pages. That's not exactly what any of the news organizations asked for, as explained below, but it's what the governor's office says it will consider releasing.

They include these e-mails: anything sent to or from the governor or her husband, Todd Palin (either from their government or private Yahoo accounts) to the government accounts of 53 people: the governor, her husband, and 51 key state employees, including current and former top aides, gas pipeline commission members and members of her Cabinet.

The state says it plans to release some, and withhold some, of the e-mails it has collected, following the exemptions allowed in the public records law.

There is more at the link above, but it makes me wonder just what is in those e-mails that Palin doesn't want anyone to see?

[Ikonoklast]

That Tawud was really running things, and Palin wa sonly there for the cameras.

I've always felt that sooner or later, the graft and corruption those grifters inflicted on Alaska will come home to roost right on the doorstep of that home they built.

Just like what happened to the late Sen. Stevens.

[sandnsea]

That's wild. These judges just seem to be afraid if they piss off a politician they won't keep their job.