Well she finally did it. Sarah Palin fires up her ghostwriter and goes after Hillary Clinton over e-mails.

"Me, me, I want to say something about Hillary's private e-mails."

Earlier I had mocked Palin for hiding behind Bristol and not going after Hillary on her own.

Well it looks like she was sufficiently shamed and has convinced Fox News to let her ghostwriter post an article that she can then leave her hoof print on.

Here are a few excerpts:

First, some background: I know something about how annoying FOIA requests can be for public officials. After I returned home from the 2008 vice presidential campaign, the state of Alaska was flooded with innumerable FOIA requests to see literally every single email I ever wrote while governor. It was an overwhelming request for a small population state with limited resources. But our system of government relies on transparency, and that means public officials must suck it up and let the public see whatever they want. 

Transparency? Is that why it took them three and a half years to respond to the FOIA requests for e-mails? And why they had initially asked for fifteen million dollars to release them?

When FOIA requests bombarded us, investigators and our attorney general’s office were given full access to all of my state and private emails. The only emails redacted were the very few that were protected by attorney/client privilege – a determination agreed upon by my lawyers and the Attorney General’s office who reviewed them. In other words, an independent third party reviewed every email. There was no chance for any “smoking gun” to escape detection because nothing was kept secret in any way. Everything was done in the most transparent way possible. 

Okay look I personally combed through hundreds of pages of redacted e-mails, and it took 189 pages simply to list the number of redacted or withheld e-mails. So don't give me that shit about nothing being kept secret.  

An honest politician has nothing to fear from the public seeing her emails. I know this. Eventually all but those few redacted emails of mine were released to the public and remain online to this day for anyone to read at any time. 

Hang on my irony meter just vomited on itself. 

In fact, the release of my emails was a great boon for Alaska’s tourism industry because dozens of national reporters descended on Alaska to pour through tens of thousands of pages of my emails looking for some smoking gun. They even crowd-sourced the work out to the general public to help them look for dirt! They were sorely disappointed. 

Disappointed ? No I wasn't.

All they found was evidence of an administration doing what the people sent us to do – work hard for them.

No that is not all that we found. But if those redacted or withheld e-mails had been released we would have undoubtedly found much more. And if there was nothing to hide then why were THEY not released in full?

Good luck finding those missing emails. And good luck getting a straight answer from the Obama administration as to why no one in the White House noticed that the Secretary of State wasn’t using a government email account. 

Actually the Obama administration has already admitted that they knew about the private e-mails and that the President corresponded back and forth with his Secretary of State using her private e-mail address.

But here let's take one final shot at the President, his administration, and Hillary.

You’d expect more from the self-described “most transparent administration in history.” And you should demand more from anyone who wants to be president someday. 

Well as we have already determined this whole e-mail thing is simply a whole lot of nothing, much like Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the IRS scandal, and Obama's supposedly fake birth certificate.

However I appreciate the opportunity to once again revisit Palin's convoluted e-mail kerfuffle and all of the things we learned about her and her desperate attempts to keep so much away from the prying eyes of reporters. And of course certain bloggers.