"I can't take it anymore!" New article from the Washington Post on the just released Palin e-mails. Update!

"Go ahead look. You are not going to find anything THIS time!"

There is not much yet, but then journalists are just getting started .

In fact, according to this article, many of them were not even notified that they had been released.

Several media organizations, including msnbc.com, said they were not informed of Thursday’s release.

So far my favorite parts are the ones that describe her frustration over the fact that her choice for Attorney General being fought tooth and nail by the people of Alaska:

“Those who want to turn this into a kangaroo court will soon see you confirmed as Alaska’s AG,” Palin wrote.

(He would ultimately be rejected)

And of course her unbridled anger at the numerous ethics complaints filed against her for...well for being unethical!

Palin’s frustration over a series of ethics complaints filed against her, one of the issues she cited when stepping down, emerges in a series of e-mails on March 24, 2009. 

“These are the things that waste my time and money, and the state’s time and money,” she wrote to then-Lt. Gov. Parnell. 

In an April 2009 email, she commiserated over a story indicating another ethics complaint was to be filed: “Unflippinbelievable... I’m sending this because you can relate to the bullcrap continuation of the hell these people put the family through,” she wrote to Ivy Frye, an aide during the first part of her term, and to Frank Bailey. 

Later that day, in an email to her husband and two top aides, on the issue, she said: “I can’t take it anymore.”

The rest, as they say, is history.

I imagine this is only the tip of the iceberg so I hope that there is much more to come. And I REALLY hope somebody puts these online soon so we can ALL get a look at them.

Update: The e-mails are now available online.

I am about to go to bed, so I will look through them tomorrow.

Let me know if you find anything interesting.

You know like this one from September 26, 2007.

Frank Bailey comes out swinging against ethics complaint.

From the ADN:

The lawyer for former Sarah Palin aide and author Frank Bailey said Tuesday that Bailey is fully cooperating with the state's investigation into how he put together his upcoming "expose" of Palin.
"Mr. Bailey has complied with all requests from the Attorney General's office and his actions are within the boundaries of his legal rights," attorney Kevin Clarkson said in an emailed statement.

The Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act says former public officials can't use information acquired in the course of their work for personal gain if the information hasn't been publicly disseminated.

Bailey's lawyer said Tuesday that provision is meant for different situations, such as when an official learns the state will build a road to a piece of property and then leaves state employment and buys and develops that property. The emails don't have inherent value, he argued.

"The value that exists in Mr. Bailey's book comes not from the emails, but from his personal recollections of events that transpired within the Palin Administration ... the emails simply serve to refresh Mr. Bailey's recollections as he writes of events, and also as proof of his recollections," he said.

He said the First Amendment protects Bailey's right to pen a book about Palin.

McLeod has been asking the attorney general for months about what's being done with her ethics complaint against Bailey. Assistant Attorney General Margaret Paton Walsh responded to her on Friday. Among the issues, Paton Walsh said, are whether Bailey has possession of official state emails that are no longer in state archives.

Bailey attorney Clarkson said Tuesday that, in response to requests from the attorney general's office, Bailey took care to make sure everything was legal.

"Mr. Bailey provided his manuscript to the attorney general's office, along with copies of the emails referenced in the manuscript, for review and approval prior to submitting the final manuscript to his publisher," Clarkson said.

He said Bailey removed from his book references to a few emails that the state felt were privileged information or confidential.

You know I kind of stopped covering Andree McLoed quite a while back when it seemed that she was filing ethics complaints every five minutes.  I do support many of her points of view, as well as her desire to see Palin held accountable for her numerous unethical behaviors, but after awhile it just got to be too much.

I mean after you file that many ethics complaints people just stop taking you seriously.

Having said that, I really think that Andree is getting in her own way here.  If we REALLY want to know what is in many of those e-mails, our best bet is supporting Bailey's book.

After all, HIS e-mails will not be redacted.

Fortunately it looks as if the ethics complaint will NOT stop this book from being published.

Clarkson said Tuesday that the attorney general's office has minor concerns that Bailey shared with co-authors Morris and Devon a few emails considered privileged and pulled from the book. "But the vast bulk of Andree McLeod's ethics complaint is baseless and will be disposed of as such," he said.