The Alaska attorney general's office says it's investigating a charge that former Sarah Palin aide Frank Bailey wrongfully used state emails as the basis for his coming book slamming the ex-governor.
Assistant Attorney General Margaret Paton Walsh on Friday wrote to Anchorage activist Andree McLeod, who filed an ethics complaint against Bailey in September and has been repeatedly asking since what's being done about it.
"In addition to the ongoing investigation ... this office has been working with Enterprise Technology Services, the state's IT division, to ascertain whether the state is missing emails that are state records and which Mr. Bailey may have in his possession," she wrote to McLeod.
"Please be assured that we take this matter very seriously and are working to ensure that the state has possession of all state records and emails," Paton Walsh wrote.
Bailey did not respond to the Daily News on Monday. He did express confidence to The Associated Press in September, after McLeod filed her ethics complaint, that his "efforts and procedures" had been lawful in preparing his memoir.
This possibility has been widely discussed by a lot of people behind the scenes, and some of us even suggested releasing the e-mails on Wikileaks before the book was published.
A few have even put forward the opinion that the leaked manuscript simply could NEVER have been published as it was written due to the heavy reliance on the e-mails in Bailey's possession which fleshed out the narrative, and gave it iron clad credibility.
However I have also been told that the authors were prepared for this contingency, and are prepared to address it legally. I certainly hope they are correct, because I really do want to read the final version of this book.
You gotta love those grifters!
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Now thats what I call interesting!
Release it somehow! I do not want Sarah Palin's long tentacles trying to stop it.
ReplyDeleteHow could any emails be "missing?"
ReplyDeleteSurely $arah left her copies.
Amazing the State won't produce the emails that have been requested for many months and now they are potentially saying Bailey can't use them. Clearly the my state government is covering Palin's ass. How sad...
ReplyDeleteHe should get the emails to WikiLeaks and ask them to hold them until his book is published. That way if the Alaska government is able to stop publication of his book, they will be released anyway. But what do I know?
ReplyDeleteEverything that touches the Palin's turns to shit.
ReplyDeleteKeep your distance.
They don't belong to the fucking state, they belong to the PEOPLE of Alaska. Are they going to use this as an excuse to hold onto the ones they promised to release later this month? you betcha.
ReplyDeleteI'll pay 40 bucks for the non-final, leaked copy of the book. The mofo Palin family has been damaging enough to the public discourse that it would be money well spent.
ReplyDeleteWhere the fuck has the supposed AK law enforcement been on all the other illegal and unethical shit from that lying grifting fraud of a family?
Aren't Palins emails supposed to be released this month?
ReplyDeleteIf Frank Bailey has those e-mails and he wrote them or they were written by him and responded to by $P....what's the beef? Doesn't that make it all under the freedom of?
ReplyDeleteWhat's McLeod's issue? It is confusing if she is attempting to stop the public from having access to the BS that surrounded the idiot politician. Am I missing something?
Something does not sound right. The state had years to do something about Palin's crooked email practices and now it sounds like they are doing something, but to Bailey, right before his book comes out? Is the State covering Palin's and their behinds?
ReplyDeleteThey are asking McLeod for her cooperation and was never on her side before.
WakeUpAmerica said...
ReplyDeleteHe should get the emails to WikiLeaks and ask them to hold them until his book is published. That way if the Alaska government is able to stop publication of his book, they will be released anyway. But what do I know?
10:19 PM
Great thinking, but can you trust Wikileaks to hold onto them and release them only if the book is blocked?
andree McCloed, again? what is this bitch's actual agenda? goes after Palin for hiding emails, then helps Palin hide emails from Bailey?! FU. let everythign see thesunlight then we can evaluate it. Not talking about national security here. AM - get a real job. Holy Geez!
ReplyDeletei have to say i DO vote for a "new wiki leak" in this case.....
ReplyDeleteIf state emails are "missing" well, so sad, too bad...
ReplyDeleteKind of says something about Palin's competency.
Speaking of books -- I just received "The Lies of Sarah Palin" via my Kindle. AWESOME!!!
ReplyDeleteIf Bailey's emails are personal emails from a Yahoo account then they will not be on the state servers.
ReplyDeleteAnything that Sarah and Todd wanted to keep off of the state servers would be sent through Yahoo.
Why do you think Ivy Frye was so interested in state servers and personal email accounts.
-----Original Message-----
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:07 AM
To: Garnero, Kim J (DOA)
Subject: RE: Cell phone reimbursement
How about when I send personal email? Do they only travel over the phone contractor line?
From: Garnero , Kim J (DOA)
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Wed Mar 19 17 :47:12 2008
Subject : RE: Cell phone reimbursement
This one I had to go to Tom Ryan in ETS for. Your PDA can be configured to have both a state
email and personal email account . State email goes through ETS server; personal email doesn't (like
a Yahoo account , it goes directly over the internet into the device.
Hope this helps.
Kim
Is there any hope for the good citizens of AK to effect a grass-roots political housecleaning now that they have seen the likes of the PaYlin Miller traveling shows?
ReplyDeleteJudging by the fine array of concerned citizen bloggers who work so diligently to expose the fraud squads, I hold out much hope.
Gryphen, Shannyn, Syrin, M Litman, J Devon, to name but a few --- keep shining the light of truth on the cockroaches who have invaded your beautiful State.
Here we go again, somebody is trying to protect Lou Sarah yet again.
ReplyDeleteI forgot, when is Bailey's book supposed to be released?
I'm thinking that there are a slew of emails on off-govt accounts that the courts have said are not government emails and therefore not subject to FOIA requests. Could there be a book that doesn't use state emails, but does use the private account emails?
ReplyDeleteIf Bailey is prosecuted for having those emails, I can see plenty of trouble for Quitler--that is, if Alaskans step up to the plate regarding ethical behavior of your politicians.
ReplyDeleteOne of Geoffrey Dunn's remarks in a Q&A hosted by Phil Munger the other night over at FDL was that he hadn't realized Alaskan politics were so corrupt. And he did a hell of a lot of research for his book, unless you don't think an 18 page bibliography is much.
The state is the people, and I doubt very much if Sarah chatted about security issues in any meaningful way in those emails.
ReplyDeleteOnce again, her primary instinct is cowardice. Ooh noes, somebody SAVE me!
When are Alaskans going to get tired of their government protecting this trashy little crook they elected?
Stinky Ak politics. State can't get the Brand's official e-mails out (too much, we are too small) but it can do this?
ReplyDeleteStinky! Smells of Wasilla.
They were on Yahoo. As much of an idiot as she is and using Yahoo for state emails, this is actually good, because it's not the official state server.
ReplyDeleteIf Frank's emails to and from Sarah Palin were on Yahoo, he has a right to use them.
So her little attempt to hide from FOIA will effectively bite her in the ass.
I just don't understand why the state has been able to delay for this long. I'd be furious if I lived in that state. There is no due process. Tax payers seem to not have much recourse. Thank God for Andree McLeod; she sticks her neck out time and again.
The State of Alaska may kick and scream and take the issue to court, but I think any court would find the email sent on yahoo accounts isn't state property. The only way email would be "missing" is if the sender and every recipient deleted the email and even then, a good forensic computer examiner could find them, unless the servers on which the email resided was destroyed. I think that was going to be their excuse for not releasing all the email is some of it's missing. Why is Andrea McLeod protesting Bailey using the email? She could get more from Bailey than she's going to get from the state. Is she unable to work with other people?
ReplyDeleteFirst review of Dunn's book is at Christian Science Monitor.com. They dismiss is as petty gossip from people who don't like the Queen.
ReplyDeleteIt isn't state property if sent on a private server such as yahoo. Another reason $arah should have thought that little scenario through, but didn't because she wanted to avoid scrutiny. She didn't count on the people she ran over with the bus, being the ones to shed light on her cancerous personality.
ReplyDeleteSurely someone still has a copy that was leaked a couple of months ago, just so somewhere this manuscript exists. Then other allegations can be coorborated.
ReplyDeleteThis is a good thing, as in any publicity is good publicity.
ReplyDeleteMore people may take an interest in this book with the threat of it being taken away suddenly looming large.
Everyone wants what they can't have...
In any case, I'm sure that the publisher's lawyers looked at all legalities before even agreeing to publish.
Doesn't the supposed "last" deadline for releasing the long ago requested SP e-mails come up this month?
ReplyDeleteAlso, I assume this investigation is indeed evidence of SP's long tentacles. I thought at the time of the "leaked" manuscript that the clock started running then if SP wanted to take action on her own to stop the release of the e-mails. And since nothing was done, I wondered what was up. I could not imagine her just accepting the release. So, obviously, she turned to her successor to put the squeeze on the publication.
As an IT guy myself, I believe, if it has a non-government email address in any of the From, To, CC, or BCC fields, then its an open record. Period. Doesn't matter if its From, To, CC, or BCC to a government email address, if there is a non-government email address involved, its an open record.
ReplyDeleteJust In My Humble Opinion.
Bonsai-Jay
Didn't the state already rule the Yahoo emails weren't state records? I'm sure I heard the clicking of Palin's "delete" button all the way in Texas.
ReplyDeleteAll of Palin's dirt will be in the Yahoo emails. They started those accounts specifically to avoid open records. That's how they coordinated their attacks on Wooten and everyone else.
I too am certain the publisher anticipated this legal challenge. I doubt they would have agreed to publish if they thought they could not win.
Of course, the Alaska government likes to contradict itself with regards to Palin. Remember Troopergate? Todd was a private citizen who could do whatever he wanted then, but an executive adviser subject to protection when the Yahoo account went to court. It wouldn't surprise me for Palin's Yahoo records to NOT be state property, but Bailey's somehow ARE. *eyeroll*
They are going to try to cover for Palin just like they have been since 2008. Sounds like Alaska,s government is really crooked.
ReplyDeleteI have no doubt that our brilliant Jean DeVon and her attorney co-author vetted the source material and this is not going to hurt the publishing and sale of this book.
ReplyDeleteThe double inch sword stabs Sarah and Todd in their pointy-asses, they tried to go round State protocol by instituting a private gossip/decision-making group via Yahoo. By Yahoo folks. I guarantee that at least a third of yahoo mail holders have easily had their emails hijacked and taken over by spammers. I had notifications that someone tried to change my password at least three times before I closed that account. At least my password was better than where I went to high school.
I can't wait to see the emails expose her for the back-stabbing Jr. High bitch she is, EVERY ally is going to be stunned and hurt about what she really thought about them. . .this is the Mayor who, after all, would stick her tongue out at her own constituents when they had their back turned. The same maturity she displayed when she and Bristol (or Willow?) rolled their eyes at the Teacher in Homer.
Meangirls, the Palins, the new Lohans.
I pre-ordered the book. This is by no means an endorsement of Frank Bailey.
ReplyDeleteHe is the kind of "Christian" that the Palin's are, abuse ethic and moral lines "for all our sakes" but especially themselves.
He calls himself Palin's Hatchet Man and I believe it. I don't think this book is redemption, his Come to Jesus is not good enough to make up for his role in the Palin Administration.
I'm sure he prays every day about his sins, and will spend his life atoning for acts committed in Sarah's name.
Hello Gryphen
ReplyDeleteFirst time commentator, long-time reader....I have wondered about "Andree McLeod"....I have the feeling that the "Ethics complaints" may have been created by both Sarah & Todd Palin, or "The Shadow Governor" Todd Palin, with Sarah as the Frontwoman....Why haven't the Palin's gone after Andree McLeod legally if they were "wounded" by these Ethics complaints????
I wouldn't be surprised if the Palin's were in on the "Ethics complaints" from the beginning....I don't think The Palin's are running for president....the commentators here don't have to worry....
Gee, the Palin-Parnell administration have refused to release the emails despite being asked as far back as 2008, and now they are picking on Frank Bailey for releasing copies of emails that either he sent, were sent to him, or were sent on Palin's private email system.
ReplyDeleteMakes a lot of sense to me. Obviously if an email was sent, regardless of whether Bailey has it, it is on a server somewhere- unless Palin had the server scrubbed. That's what the AG should be investigating.
Bailey's lawyer also needs to look at where the emails came from. Did the emails come from Palin's private yahoo email account?
ReplyDeleteHow does this play in the situation?
Was private citizen Todd Palin addressed on the emails? How does this play in the situation?
Was the Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, not acting like a governor but a imbecilic lunatic? How does this play in the situation?
Sarah Palin tried to hide her emails from the citizens of Alaska by using a private citizen account and higher state officials new about this so why does it matter now? How does this play in the situation?
If the state of Alaska is worried they don't have a copy of Palin's private emails, buy a copy of Bailey's book and now they have them... simple enough if you ask me.
Something tells me Palin's army of lawyers are working on this 24/7 as the release of the book gets closer.
The ICEBERG COMETH YOU CHEATING QUITTER EX-GOVERNOR RETARD
To answer some of your questions about the state e-mails, yes they are supposed to finally be released later this month.
ReplyDeleteHowever I have long been of the opinion that they will be so heavily redacted as to be rendered virtually useless. (That was what Linda Kellen-Biegel discovered when she received the e-mails from HER records request.)
However Bailey's e-mails are completely intact and have not been subjected to the state's black "Sharpie of secrecy." That is what makes his book so potentially valuable.
That is why I have suggested they just send the e-mails to Wikileaks and get them out into the public domain.
Phil is right, they belong to the people of the state of Alaska, and we deserve to see them.
And in my opinion we also deserve to be able to read this book, which heavily references what is in them, while also giving us some perspective as to what was happening when they were written.
Bailey saved the State of Alaska tons of money by helping distribute the emails. Something the state had manpower problems doing itself.
ReplyDeleteThe state should just thank Bailey and call it a day.
What's the problem?
ReplyDeleteThe State of Alaska is about to release the emails any day now, well that's what they told us.
Wait, doesn't this mean that any attempt by the state to omit emails has now been either effectively prevented, or will be effectively disclosed?
ReplyDeleteLet's say you're charged with damage control (on behalf of the Palins, but theoretically also others in collusion and/or in illegal or unethical activities) and you've been busily preparing the emails which by law MUST be finally released this month. And much effort has gone into omitting and/or abbreviating (threads, let's say, or even text) in order to do this magic.
But now it becomes clear that this magic will be revealed with the publication - and obvious existence - of emails you have altered or omitted from what you represent as the legal, lawful and responsive total to the legal, lawful request.
Oh oops! You would be f***ed, and in a very public manner. And would, further, be shown to be out of compliance, in fact illegal, in your responsive emails. Not a lot of time to fix this one. Better stop it some other way.
The crooked State of Alaska is trying to avoid a pie in the face situation.
ReplyDeleteIf they are about to release Palin's crooked emails and Bailey comes out with a ton of emails that the state tried to hide from us, it would look mighty bad for the State of Alaska and for Palin's cronies still working in the Alaskan government. So now they want to see what Bailey has so they can reevaluate what they are going to show us.
The State of Alaska stretched this out long enough… if you want to play poker with Bailey you can’t ask him to show his hands to see if you can beat him. Release or play the cards (emails) you have and then let’s see who is bluffing and who is telling the truth.
Remember Sarah Palin and the State of Alaska is about transparency.
good idea. get them to wikileaks and hold them with the threat of releasing them unless book is published. I think a wikileaks release would garner more mainstream publicity because it would be considered as "news." A book is less likely to attract as much attention. Let them name their poison.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the Attorney General ever heard of Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers?
ReplyDeleteNo court is going to stop publication of a book because of leaked documents.
Is the State of Alaska prejudice? They let white Todd Palin receive Sarah's emails! What about the Asians Americans and the African Americans of Alaska? We deserve to see the emails too. Unless you are hiding something from us.
ReplyDeletePhil is right: if they are State emails, they belong to the people of AK who have a right to know what business is being conducted and that it is being conducted above board - that is behind the whole issue of Sarah Palin asking if certain phones she had (her private blackberry) and what emails could be subject to disclosure ...then she went on to conduct State business on her private accounts. That makes her "private" emails and "private" phones subject to subpoena, disclosure. Am I not correct on this? Yes, they are stonewalling ... they won't release the state emails and they are going to try and stop Bailey from showing his. I don't think Jeanne Devon or Frank Bailey would have proceeded with this manuscript without anticipating an attempt to make them cease and desist and they are prepared for this - it is behind the whole issue of what was supposed to be transparency in her governorship and was everything but!
ReplyDeletePhil Munger is right, the emails belong to the people of the State of Alaska, whose taxes paid for them. That was the reason that Nixon had to eventually turn over the incriminating Watergate Tapes. He fought that battle with much better resources and was eventually forced by the US Supreme Court to turn them over. Nixon tried everything, including allowing one senator (the oldest, most hard of hearing Republican he could find) to review them, and he still lost. In the end, before they were turned over, 18 1/2 minutes seemed to have been erased.
ReplyDeleteSarah has delayed long enough regarding the emails that are supposed to be released this May that it is hard to believe that there is nothing there.
As for emails going missing, the only thing that comes to mind is the example of McCain's group scrubbing the Johnston family's computers. Now those are some missing records.
If Frank was copied on the emails, that presents an interesting legal situation. What could be a problem is if government employees are asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement. However, a good lawyer could make the case that the agreement cannot force a person to withhold information about a crime.
That statement from the state official doesn't make sense.
ReplyDeleteThis is emails,for God's sake.
Why do they need to check if they are missing from the state record if Bailey has his own copies?
LOL
ReplyDeleteWhat's so funny you ask?
The State of Alaska is worried they don't have a copy of Palin's emails on file.
HELLOOOO!
Wasn't this the intent of Sarah Palin using Yahoo email in the first place so she can avoid using the state server and having to be accountable to the people of Alaska?
Now the State of Alaska is trying to help Sarah hide her mess?
Somebody get me Wikileaks on the phone, we are going global on this.
Enough game playing, we are going Rogue on the state.
If the emails are evidence of wrong doing, withholding them is aiding and abetting the crime. I am going to suggest that Bailey, Devon et al search their souls and do the right thing, namely, make a copy of any and all incriminating emails and send it to the FBI/Justice Department.
ReplyDeleteThere will be no justice going through the State of Alaska's government. It requires the Federal government, and it would be the first step in cleaning up Alaska corruption.
The moral battle for the authors is to decide what the reason for writing the book is. If it was to make money and make them famous, that's selfish. If it was to expose the corruption of the Sarah Palin administration, then the correct thing to do would be to turn copies of the emails over to federal authorities. They can still write a best seller about exposing the corruption in Alaska as a happy ending to their story.
I am still interested in the fact that Frank Bailey participated in Sarah's administration then, and seems to have had a "come to Jesus moment" later, when he found some co-authors and the prospect of making money. The authors really need to do the right thing, make those emails available to authorities instead of cashing in right now. Cashing in is Sarah's style.
Sarah maybe McCain can help you stop the release of your email in the name of National Security? Ha Ha
ReplyDeleteSarah I think McCain is tired of your stanky wrinkly old ass. He wants some of that new fake plastic young Palin ass which will be passed around and shared when she turns 21.
I said from the beginning, this is why the book was "leaked". Get the emails out there to the public before the book arrives. The state will have no grounds to retract what is already out there.
ReplyDeleteCarrie
I heard Bristol is going to avenge mom and try to become Miss Alaska. Right now Bristol is waiting for her new breast to arrive, they are on back order.
ReplyDeleteCould that be why Bristol is going to live in LA with the two brothers. She wants to perfect her flute playing skills and build up her endurance?
State of AK is spending years scrubbing Palin's emails in an effort to cover up and delay but yet they hop on this practically overnight?
ReplyDeleteThere must be a LOT of people afraid of being thrown under Palin's apparently still-powerful bus.
Lot of corruption going on up there STILL...
Has anybody asked Palin for her opinion concerning the release of the emails she sent out on yahoo to avoid the State of Alaska? Maybe she does not care and wants them released.
ReplyDeletePalin is a Christian woman and has now seen the righteous path of her crooked ways.
I like your comments Anonymous at 5:58 am, especially the last one. If I ever get a chance to see her in person (yuck!) this will be my banner:
ReplyDeleteThe ICEBERG COMETH YOU CHEATING QUITTER EX-GOVERNOR RETARD
Oh my goodness. Looks like the powers that be in Alaska government still have allegiances to Sarah. Someone's got to coax Bailey and his co-writers that they need to get legal advice quickly. They need to swiftly release those e-mails to the public first, then hand them over to SOA, who then probably would shred them. If they wait til the book is ready, some type of State jurisdiction may have the power to stop all publishing of that material.
ReplyDeleteThey need to release those e-mails to a trusted media source.
I'm an Alaskan tax payer, I want to see what I paid for. I want to see what 6 colleges and one degree got us in our state government.
ReplyDeleteAs Sarah Palin herself said, "NO MORE PUSSY FOOTING AROUND"
The court already ruled that the yahoo acount didn't fall under state jurisdiction. That means all of the yahoo emails that Bailey has are NOT under the jurisdiction of the state and can't be "investigated."
ReplyDeleteHas the Alaskan Dept of Law put Sarah Palin on suicide watch?
ReplyDeleteWe are very concerned and don't want anything to happen to her before the release of the state emails which might delay the release of the emails.
We don't want to start the process all over again, do we?
I seem to remember when Palin was using all her different blackberries and email accounts she said those accounts were not subject because they were her private accounts - therefore - any emails that were sent by her to Baily would also be his private property, to use as he wishes. If she says they were "government" business, then she opens up the avenue for ALL of her email accounts to be public record.
ReplyDeleteCan you say "out of the frying pan and into the fire?"
Anony at 7:13 : oh yes, there are still people who worked for Palin who are in Parnell's administration, not to mention Parnell himself. There will be indictments of the actions of others who facilitated her abuse of the office of Governor of AK : aiding and abetting.
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I like your comments Anonymous at 5:58 am, especially the last one. If I ever get a chance to see her in person (yuck!) this will be my banner:
The ICEBERG COMETH YOU CHEATING QUITTER EX-GOVERNOR RETARD
7:24 AM
My sign is going to say
"The ICEBERG COMETH YOU CHEATING CORRUPT QUITTER FAKE PREGNANT EX-GOVERNOR TRAIlER PARK RETARD"
Oh my, I just came to my senses and I can't do that!
I just realized I may not have enough room on one sign.
I don't care if you release my emails. The State of Alaska can't touch me. It would look bad to send a 8 month pregnant ex governor to jail.
ReplyDeleteCorruption thy name is Palin. I think most states have a heart of corruption in them. These emails should have been released long ago. Hasn't she made enough money off the Palinbots yet? Her enormous ego cannot abide any criticism. I'd love to hear this nimrod try to defend herself. Thats what you get Alaska when you elect an imbecile with the emotional age of a five year old for governor. Let the games begin and let the truth come out.
ReplyDeleteWhy doesn't the Attorney General for Alaska reinvestigatge the emails that Toad and Sarah did outside the government email system that was questioned and dismissed a few years ago?
ReplyDeleteThey don't play fair in Alaska's government, that is for sure.
Alaska (and the nation) are suppose to finally see emails released (written during the Palin half-term Administration) by the end of May. Wanna bet the majority of them will be doctored up so much their content will not be understandable? The national press has been after these emails for years now.
Don't forget that Parnell is the exising governor and he has protected Palin and her ilk since he went into the office because Palin had 'appointed' him as her second in command. He is referred to as 'Captain Zero'!
Alaska is still as corrupt as it was before Palin, during Palin and after Palin. She who said she was going to 'clean things up'! My ass!
The book is due out in two weeks, right? Even with a rushed schedule, the publisher has probably already completed the first print run and is in the process of shipping the title to stores everywhere. It's very late in the game for the opposing side to stop the release. And even if they do, there are plenty of people--from printers to warehouse workers to booksellers--who could easily snag a copy or two and still distribute them.
ReplyDeleteHoward Books, which is releasing this title, is a "Christian" imprint of Simon & Schuster. S&S is a MAJOR publisher. I can't imagine they don't have a kick-ass legal team that could run circles around Van Flea. I'm sure they vetted the book thoroughly for legal issues before the publisher agreed to invest money in the production and marketing.
I think all that the last-minute freakout will do is contribute some free pre-release publicity.
The crap is about to hit the fan for Sarah Palin!
ReplyDeleteYou people need to confiscate Sarah Palin's passport before she escapes to Arizona and you can't get her back to indite her.
I believe the legal begals of the publisher and authors looked deeply into the matter of Bailey releasing the emails in his book (as backup to things written) and assured themselves all was legal in doing so.
ReplyDeleteSounds to me like Palin et al are trying to stop from being embarrassed.
Someone mentioned McLeod and Palin being in cahoots about all of these previous filed complaints that never went anywhere. Wouldn't that be something? The recent claim filed by McLeod doesn't make one bit of sense to me. Maybe she has another motive to doing so that will back up some of her previous claims?
Pretty sad when we don't believe a damned thing about Toad or sister Sarah (Bristol and Track now too) in our world today, isn't it. They have already proven to be such frauds.
I'm reading my book (just received yesterday) "The Lies of Sarah Palin" - boy of boy - she was and is something else. I know she has a place in hell awaiting her.
Washington Post is out with the story.
ReplyDelete"Alaska attorney general investigates emails of former Sarah Palin aide who wrote critical book"
http://tinyurl.com/3f2av4p
Don't forget that this book has already been prepared for publication at the end of May. Books have been sent to folks to review...others already have it. It can be leaked very easily should the State of Alaska try to put a halt to the publication.
ReplyDeleteGod, I'd love to see the Palins in Court, but they have absolutely no grounds to stand on here.
Remember, Sarah and Todd used Yahoo (when she was quitter governor) and it was deemed to be OK by the Personnel Board back a couple of years ago.
Why are they acting like there are only one copy and can be only one copy of an email?
ReplyDeleteI mean, seriously?
How!?
Parnell and cohorts are just as corrupt as $palin and her BFF's were. They just do it without the drama. Expect to learn nothing from the released emails, they've had years to alter them.
ReplyDeleteI am confused as to why Andree would file a complaint to withold the emails, other than that bailey will make money from them. They belong to US and may be the ONLY way to get to the bottom of the barrel of rot that was the palin administration.
The idea of Wikileaks is a great one. They should be sent to Wikileaks, and released on the date the book is released.
$carah doesn't have a leg to stand on in this. If they were "State" emails, they're public. Any ONE person who was part of an email communication - no matter how many times down the line it's been cc'd or forwarded by an original owner - can release any and all parts of the email that they were privy to.
ReplyDeleteDumb bitch. If you don't want people to be able to read it for eternity, DON'T WRITE IT DOWN! It's a basic internet safety rule that every competen parent teaches their children.
This smells fishy as hell to me. Why would McLeod file the complaint...is the Parnell Administration setting her up to be the bad guy....could they have talked her into filing the complaint?
ReplyDeleteThis issue, w/a photo of McLeod, made the front page of the Anchorage Daily News this morning. None of her other complaints ever did so.
Shannyn cannot talk about it on her radio show today, I'm sure...due to her closeness to Jeanne Devon.
Jeanne cannot talk about it on her blog site....as a co-author. Part of this thing from the State is BECAUSE Jeanne got to view all of the emails Bailey had and disclosed in the book.
If the State of Alaska stops the publication of the book (which is probably in mass print already since it's publication date was the end of the month), I sincerely hope the book is leaked!
Oh, Shannyn is talking about the emails and Sarah's Administration on her radio show right now. Have to stop typing and listen. Good for her - really didn't think she'd do it!
In the case of Bailey's emails, I believe they "belong" to all the people copied on them. Any one of those people could have released them or used them in a book or article. This is especially true if they were not sent on the official Alaska State email system. (Note: I'm not a lawyer, but have some familiarity with this subject through my old job). None of them should be "lost" as each person in the communication chain has a right to keep his or her personal copy. Again, if not on the State system, the archive rules can't apply, because the state has no control over the server onto which they might be saved.
ReplyDeleteWith regard to State emails, there are retention rules to which employees are bound to follow. Those rules do not, however, enjoin them from keeping personal files apart from the state system. In neither case is there no presumption of confidentiality for any of the writers or copyees unless 1) marked as such on the document or 2) sent on a specific system designated for confidential correspondence.
The technological age has complicated the confidentiality laws tremendously and legislatures have been lazy about addressing this issue other than claiming, vaguely, that all laws pertaining to paper documents apply equally to electronic ones. Um, no. That doesn't work. It'll be interesting how the courts in AK handle this, given the culture of corruption there, I cannot predict whether the outcome will even come near the law, much less follow it.
~physicsmom
Oh, and by the way, I don't expect the state to release the emails at the end of May. I don't think they ever intended to and will now use this investigation as an excuse to delay once again. And the public's right to know will be trampled on once again. So much for the Freedom of Information Act.
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Well, I just bought The Lies of Sarah Palin for my Kindle. We don't have a book store nearby unless I drove half an hour to a Mall or took Metro into DC, also a half hour ride.
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At this point the best thing for Bailey to do is LEAK all of the emails into the public arena.
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