An IM source from the past revealed.

Recently I happened to stumble across a post I wrote way back in 2010.

It was a very informative post, but at the time I had to keep my source secret because he was not ready to come out publicly. Which of course was not uncommon back then.

However this source, Sarah Palin's head of security Gary Wheeler, DID come out publicly in order to contribute to Joe's book "The Rogue."

It dawned on me while reading this old post, that knowing who had been my source really gave it much more of an impact.

So I thought I would go ahead and reprint the entire post right here for all of you to enjoy again, with the added knowledge that the person who provided the information is no longer just a shadowy figure.

It's kind of long so I will place it behind this page break in the interest of space. Enjoy!

A little update on what I am working on.

"Uh oh."

So as I mentioned a while back I have been in contact with a source who has been providing me with fascinating information recently. Some of it simply reinforcing what we already know, and some of it quite new, and a little startling.

Before I start sharing, the first thing to get out of the way is all of this iceberg talk.

The term "iceberg" was coined by my friend Dennis Zaki, and at the time he felt that what was about to be revealed qualified as an iceberg that would literally sink Palin's political career.

As all of you know instead she resigned and the iceberg simply melted away. Much to our frustration.

I would not characterize what I am working on as an iceberg, mostly because Palin's political career already sank into the icy depths, and because there is not yet any way to determine what kind of impact this will have on what remains of her, for lack of a better word, "career."

The second thing I want to remind all of you about is that protecting my sources is job one in my eyes. So no matter how often commenters badger me to hurry up or risk losing my credibility, or suggest that I don't deliver on my promises, or simply mock me as if we are on an elementary school playground, none of that will make things happen any faster. 

As for my credibility remember that even though I was reporting interesting behind the scenes information about  Schaeffer Cox, I did not divulge that I was getting that from Bill "Drop Zone" Fulton until the FBI allowed him to come out of the shadows.

Even though he helped to shape our understanding on this blog about Palin's secretive nature, and revealed that Palin was not met by her security detail when she arrived back from Texas that April night in 2008, nobody knew that I had been talking to her security chief Gary Wheeler until Joe used his name in "The Rogue."

And that is going to be true in this case as well.

Which means that what I can share has to be weighed against what it reveals about the source. If it is something that only a handful of people could know, then it can only come out when the source themselves decides that they want to as well.

That could very well be what happens here. But it is still in the negotiation phase.

So what I can reveal at this point is that I have finally had a face to face meeting. That the person is very credible, and that there is documentation to back up their story.

What has been shared is quite a lot about the Palin's parenting styles (Spoiler alert: It's really terrible.), Palin's struggles as mayor, fighting within the family, and Todd's philandering. (It is worse than you think.)

There is more (Oh boy is there!), but that has to be kept on the down low for right now.

If you are not patient and want to run away and never visit this blog again, please feel free to do so and you really don't need to tell us about it in the comments.

If you are a troll who thinks that proclaiming I am liar, or a tease, or that I never follow through with revelations, then know that it will really have no significant impact. (However it's a free country so bash away if you must.)

Keep in mind though that Beldar has appropriated your job as IM's resident troll and has moved trolling to new heights that I seriously doubt that the majority of you are intellectually suited to attain.

Now I cannot provide a timetable as to when things are going to break because that is not the way things work. As I am sure most of you realize.

If you want to know my opinion on what I am hearing I will tell you this, when it gets posted it is going to make troll heads explode all over the damn place.

Oh yeah, all over the damn place. 

I cannot think of anybody more deserving to hear about Sarah Palin's recent scandals than our dear friend Joe McGinniss. Sadly he is not here to do so.

Earlier today somebody sent me this link to a 2011 interview with Joe and I thought it was well worth sharing today. Especially since Joe discusses in great detail the fear that the Palins instill in the people of Alaska.

Joe also goes into great depth about his research concerning babygate, and lays out all of the reasons why her stories about her pregnancy and the birth simply do not make any sense.

By the way Gary Wheeler, who Joe mentions in the radio interview, was one of the people that I was able to hook him up while he was up here.

Gary was the one who told me that Palin did NOT get picked up the night that Trig was supposedly born, because if the security detail had done so they would have insisted that she stop at a local hospital and not continue the drive to Wasilla.

He also told me that it was highly unusual for her NOT to notify security that she was arriving back in Anchorage by plane. And has no explanation for why she didn't.

The interview is quite good, and it is always great hearing Joe airing all of Palin's dirty laundry out in public.

I can only imagine how much Joe would have enjoyed this last week.

And how pleased he would be concerning what's about to come.

Palin blames her refusal to let staff know where she is during the day on, among others, me! WTF?

"It's all Gryphen's fault!"

This e-mail was sent on January 13, 2009, three days after Dennis and I interviewed Palin at the AT&T Sports Center.

From:Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) 
Sent:Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:49 AM 
To:Mason, Janice L (GOV)  
Cc:Perry, Kristina Y (GOV) ; McAllister, William D (GOV) ; Nizich, Michael A (GOV) ; Cockrell, Robert A (GOV) ; Hanson, Britta L (GOV) Subject:
Re: Palin on pre-filed bills 

Janice- after receiving another threatening email yesterday regarding shooting one of my kids, it was really confirmed for me that I have to keep a minimally filled in schedule on our daily schedule... I can’t afford to have a paper trail of my routine or activities because of security reasons. I will not jeapordize my family, my staff, or my own safety with these wackos out there, some who claim to know where and when I travel during the day. It scares me to have people know anymore where I am and/or where the family is. A blogger showed up at Willow’s youth basketball games this weekend and filmed for two hours - I asked him how he knew we’d be there and he didn’t have a clear answer.., it was one of the creepy incidents that, for security reasons, necessitates a calendar that does not show all my appointments/meetings/events throughout the days anymore. 

I know it makes your jobs that much more difficult and I thank you for understanding why we can’t have all activities reflected on the schedule. 

WTF? So apparently the Grizzled Mama is blaming her lack of organization, and refusal to maintain a schedule, on some anonymous kids sending prank e-mails and ME? (Those e-mailed threats are highly suspicious, and may not exist by the way. Let me know if any of you find one in the e-mail dump.)

That is ridiculous.

Once again let me reiterate that Dennis and I ACCIDENTALLY ran into her in Wasilla. 

And even if we had wanted to track her down, which we didn't, we could NOT have done so! Mostly because she NEVER told anybody what she was doing!

Joe McGinniss,  Geoffrey Dunn, and I have all interviewed Gary Wheeler, Palin's head of security. And what he told all of us is that Palin NEVER maintained a schedule, and that, unlike every other Governor he had worked for, she often went home halfway through the day without letting anybody in her office know. And that all happened well before she crossed paths with Dennis and I.

For her to blame the fact that people could not find her when they needed to speak to her on one harmless incident involving the two of us is absolutely one of the most fucked up things I have ever heard!

And just let me add that she absolutely knows that I did not present a threat to her in any way. I was as nonthreatening that day as I could possibly be, and even asked questions about how Trig was doing while explaining to her that I had experience working with special needs children.

I think we can say with very little equivocation that Sarah Palin is the absolute Queen of Paranoia.

Which I also think really goes a long way toward explaining why she stays in Wasilla instead of living someplace with better access to the media and opportunities to reinvent herself.

Simply put, this woman with a "steel spine" is too frightened to leave the safety of her cozy Wasilla womb, where she feels protected from the dark and scary world beyond.

From there she can lash out at President Obama and others from the safety of her home television studio, and then play the victim every time anybody dares to fight back. The vicious attack, and cowering retreat, is the tactic that she perfected growing up, and it is the one enabled by her family and few remaining friends in Wasilla.

Where else could she possibly go to find people who would let her get away with the kind of crap they let her get away with in her quiet little corner of the Mat-Su Valley?