Alaska Must Release Palin E-mails By May

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from msnbc.com: "The state of Alaska has until May 31 to release about 25,000 pages of e-mails from former Gov. Sarah Palin and senior members of her administration, the state attorney general declared Wednesday. ... the delays in dealing with public records from the Palin administration will have stretched out longer than the Palin administration itself. She was governor for 966 days. By May 31, the request from msnbc.com for the official records will be 986 days old. State regulations usually require records to be made available within 10 days, but state officials said they were overwhelmed by the volume of the e-mails."

Re:Oh, no!

[wiredlogic]

How easy is it for a government official to get away with erasing documents of this nature?

Do what Bush did and arrange for a conversion from Lotus to Exchange or vice versa and let the inconvenient bits get dropped on the floor in the process.

Re:As we don't like republicans.

[Culture20]

The only person stupider than her is Michele Bachmann, who isn't even bright enough to look into the network cameras

You deserve your Troll rating just for this comment. Michele Bachmann looked into the appropriate camera. Just because CNN/MSNBC didn't pony up for a feed off that camera doesn't mean she's dumb.
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Re:Really?

[kenrblan]

I doubt some poor IT guy is sifting through these emails checking for sensitive information. Having worked in public higher education, I had to respond to these types of requests, either for subpoenas or freedom of information act requests. Our procedure was to produce an archive file for the legal staff to handle. The legal staff was aware of what could or could not be released in order to comply with the release. If there is one thing state governments have, it is lawyers. Of course, we are talking about Alaska and judging by the debatable competence of the governor in question, one could speculate about the abilities at all levels of the state government.

Re:Really?

[PopeRatzo]

We see how well that worked for Wikileaks.

It seems like it's worked out really well. I still haven't heard of anyone being killed because of anything wikileaks has published. But it's possible something happened that I didn't hear about, but with the frenzy over wikileaks, you'd think it would have hit the news if something like that had happened.

Re:As we don't like republicans.

[DavidTC]

Indeed.

There are people I'm not sure if they're dumb or just pretending to be, like Bush. I'm basically convinced he's smarter than he seems to be. He might be intellectually lazy, but not stupid.

Palin, OTOH, really does seem stupid. Like you said, she apparently can't remember basic beliefs she supposedly has. And, yes, all politicians lie about holding those beliefs...but they can at least explain them to some extent.

If I were, literally, in Palin's shoes, I'd have the 'what percentage of people pay what percentage of taxes' misleading statistic, or a note to mention we have the highest corporate tax rate, (Also misleading) and stuff like that, written on my hand. That's the sort of stuff you put on a cheat sheet, not the fricking basic premise of your argument. '10% p 70% tx. Hgst corp tx', not 'Taxes bad, tree pretty.'

And I came up with those off the top of my head, from right-wing talking points I've argued against. Surely her team of advisers could have come up with better things.

And if she were of average intelligence even if she didn't read papers it should be easy enough to give them name of her local Alaska paper and the Washington Post or something. No one is going to quiz her on stories in the recent edition, and she could always say she's been busy traveling and hasn't been able to keep up.

She really doesn't seem smart enough to lie in a convincing way,and she's been caught doing some really dumb things that no one could possible think would benefit her.

Whereas the dumbest thing Bush ever did that wasn't scripted to make him a 'good ole boy' was trying to open doors that didn't open, which, let's face it, any of us could have done.