Help the media dig up dirt on Sarah Palin

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http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/help-us-investigate-the-sarah-palin-e-mail-records/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...he-palin-emails/2011/06/08/AGZAaHNH_blog.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/jun/10/sarah-palin-emails-released

Sarah Palin is finished. Once her e-mails are released and with our assistance in digging through them, all her corruption and babygate info will finally be revealed. I'm looking forward to find what service Palin really gave to McCain before he chose her as his running mate, as well as her incestuous scandal involving Trig.
 
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I'll have to completely admit that I've not been following this very well, as I just don't find Palin a subject that I care to spend time with.

But - why, exactly, were these e-mails released? Is it Palin trying to get more attention, or was it some kind of FOIA-esque request?

If it's more of the FOIA thing, why don't we see this more often? Who wouldn't love to see Obama's e-mail box from when he was a present Senator? Or Bush's e-mail from when he was Governor?

I skimmed a few articles today, but doesn't seem like anything major has came out of this... yet.
 
[quote name='UncleBob']I'll have to completely admit that I've not been following this very well, as I just don't find Palin a subject that I care to spend time with.

But - why, exactly, were these e-mails released? Is it Palin trying to get more attention, or was it some kind of FOIA-esque request?

If it's more of the FOIA thing, why don't we see this more often? Who wouldn't love to see Obama's e-mail box from when he was a present Senator? Or Bush's e-mail from when he was Governor?

I skimmed a few articles today, but doesn't seem like anything major has came out of this... yet.[/QUOTE]

Three days before his first inauguration, George W. Bush sent a message to 42 friends and relatives that explained his predicament.
“Since I do not want my private conversations looked at by those out to embarrass, the only course of action is not to correspond in cyberspace,” Mr. Bush wrote from his old address, [email protected]. “This saddens me. I have enjoyed conversing with each of you.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/us/politics/16blackberry.html?ref=technology

Not shady at all.

I expect these FOIA requests to kick in for Obama once he leaves office. Typically the emails have to age a bit before FOIA kicks in, and then the govt is given an additional chance to censor a portion of the emails out of "national security" concerns.

I think there is more flurry over Palin because she is the type of politician that is more interested in her image then her constituents, IE perfect for this kind of public scrutiny.
 
[quote name='camoor']I expect these FOIA requests to kick in for Obama once he leaves office. Typically the emails have to age a bit before FOIA kicks in, and then the govt is given an additional chance to censor a portion of the emails out of "national security" concerns.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I don't expect to see Presidential e-mails dumped en massé, but I'm just curious about Senator Obama and Governor Bush's e-mails.

If enough time has passed for Palin's e-mails to be released, then enough time has been passed for Obama's (and far more than enough time for Bush's) to be released...
 
[quote name='IRHari']http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/foia/guide.html

That took like, 1 minute to find.[/quote]

Not very helpful.

Enacted in 1966, The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a federal law that establishes the public's right to obtain information from federal government agencies.
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Unless the Illinois state senate or the governor of Texas has suddenly been absorbed into the Federal Government (which wouldn't surprise me), I'm not sure exactly how your link would apply to Governor Bush or (state) Senator Obama.

I'd be more interested in e-mails from Cheney's energy task force, Obama's meetings with healthcare and Big Pharma (that were behind closed doors). Stuff that matters.
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Agreed. I'm just trying to figure out why, if it was so important/newsworthy to get all these emails from an ex-half-governor of one of the least influential states in the union, why no one has done the same for individuals who have gone on to bigger and brighter things.
 
I heard Palin can see superhuman distances with her own eyes, using her house as a starting point. It is said she ate radioactive moose meat and gained these ultra powers.
 
[quote name='Dr Mario Kart']They delete them. A bunch of Bush stuff was "lost" and we saw the same thing with Huckabee.[/QUOTE]

Palin tried skirting around by using a yahoo address. Til it got haxxored.
 
[quote name='Strell']I heard Palin can see superhuman distances with her own eyes, using her house as a starting point. It is said she ate radioactive moose meat and gained these ultra powers.[/QUOTE]
Don't forget the strength of a female grizzly bear.
 
[quote name='UncleBob'] Unless the Illinois state senate or the governor of Texas has suddenly been absorbed into the Federal Government (which wouldn't surprise me), I'm not sure exactly how your link would apply to Governor Bush or (state) Senator Obama.[/QUOTE]

You first said Senator Obama, you didn't specify you meant state Senator. That's why I posted that link, assuming you'd notice this:

Congress, the federal courts, and parts of the Executive Office of the President that function solely to advise and assist the President, are NOT subject to the FOIA.
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Yeah, I noticed that. I guess I should have been more clear. We're dealing with Palin's time as a state politician and I always mentioned Bush's time as a state politician as well. Not to mention my little jab, calling Obama a "present Senator".

I meant - all along - that I was curious about why no one's tried to force the release of these two figures' communications, while serving in state offices, which, I think we can all agree, are far more interesting than Palin.

Speaking of which, anything come out of these e-mails yet?
 
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Rest assured that there are enough people who hate Sarah Palin and will "dig up dirt" on her without the assistance of a bunch of people on a message board. Even though I think she's a horrible human being for what she's done with poaching in Alaska, the media has more access and more time to sift through any evidence they might uncover.
 
Personally I wish a politician would just come along n say 'listen this is all the bad shit I've done in my life' and drop a big ass dossier on the table for the media vultures to peruse at their leisure and just walk out of the room after doing so.

I think there'd be more than one jaw dropped that day.
 
[quote name='UncleBob']Yeah, I noticed that. I guess I should have been more clear. We're dealing with Palin's time as a state politician and I always mentioned Bush's time as a state politician as well. Not to mention my little jab, calling Obama a "present Senator".

I meant - all along - that I was curious about why no one's tried to force the release of these two figures' communications, while serving in state offices, which, I think we can all agree, are far more interesting than Palin.[/QUOTE]

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2007/11/09/4435236-obama-on-his-state-senate-records

When asked about why he hadn't released his papers, Obama said that he had only one staff person assigned to him during his years in the senate and simply did not have the resources to keep archival records.
"I don't have archivists in the state senate," he said. "I don't have the Barack Obama state senate library available to me. I do not have a whole bunch of records from those years."
Obama had been asked the question by Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times, who pressed the senator on the question, saying that she wasn't requesting specific papers. Instead, she just wanted to know where the papers were.
"You know I'm not certain, Lynn," Obama said. "I didn't have the resources to ensure that all this sutff was archived in some way; it could have been thrown out. I haven't been in the state senate now for some time. I'm not sure, Lynn. I don't know."
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I'm willing to bet Bush's response to records requests during his Governorship would be something like ''THe lawyers' said it was okay to delete them so I did.'
 
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