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Public, searchable archive of #PalinEmail now online

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This collection contains over 24,000 e-mails from former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s administration and was obtained in June 2011, more than two and a half years after the public records request for these materials. Crivella West, at its own expense, converted the paper copies of the e-mails produced back into searchable digital copies and made the digital copies available to the public without charge. In addition, Crivella West has provided analytical tools to organize the documents to help users uncover information of interest. Crivella West is continuing its collaboration with msnbc.com, Mother Jones and Pro Publica. Follow the story on: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/43281157/
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http://palinemail.msnbc.msn.com/palin2011/default.html

Tried the site, works like CRAP! Don't think it will hurt her at all, site crashes a lot! Just a collection of PDF Files......about her when she held office! Big Friggin deal......

Do this with all the other Former Governators and I'll bet you can dig up a whole lot more on them than her!

But anything the lefty wackos dig up will be made into Mt> Everest!

Right now all of the republican candidates want to find anything they can to discredit her and get her out of the spotlight so they can get some press coverage for themselves.

Why is so many people hounding Sarah ? Are they afraid of her or what ???

Yes and why is she being singled out from all our other Gov. ?? Has any other Gov.n or other public figure's emails been put up for public view ? Rediculous !!

Originally Posted by USPatriot

. . . Yes and why is she being singled out from all our other Gov. ?? Has any other Gov.n or other public figure's emails been put up for public view ? Rediculous !!

All records of presidents and vice presidents are public. I'm not sure about other politicians, yet.
I remember the release of the Nixon taps a while back.

Presidential Records Act
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Presidential Records Act of 1978

The Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978, 44 U.S.C. §§ 2201–2207, is an Act of Congress of the United States governing the official records of Presidents and Vice Presidents created or received after January 20, 1981 and mandating the preservation of all presidential records. The PRA changed the legal ownership of the official records of the President from private to public, and established a new statutory structure under which Presidents must manage their records.

Specifically, the Presidential Records Act:
Defines and states public ownership of the records.
Places the responsibility for the custody and management of incumbent Presidential records with the President.

Allows the incumbent President to dispose of records that no longer have administrative, historical, informational, or evidentiary value, once he has obtained the views of the Archivist of the United States on the proposed disposal.

Requires that the President and his staff take all practical steps to file personal records separately from Presidential records.

Establishes a process for restriction and public access to these records. Specifically, the PRA allows for public access to Presidential records through the Freedom of Information Act (United States) (FOIA) beginning five years after the end of the Administration, but allows the President to invoke as many as six specific restrictions to public access for up to twelve years. The PRA also establishes procedures for Congress, courts, and subsequent administrations to obtain special access to records that remain closed to the public, following a thirty-day notice period to the former and current Presidents.

Requires that Vice-Presidential records are to be treated in the same way as Presidential records.

Since its passage, presidents have used various methods to avoid complying with the Act, including holding meetings away from the White House and "using non-government email accounts with lobbyists."[1]

[edit] Amendments
Executive Order 12667 - Issued by President Reagan in January 1989, this executive order established the procedures for NARA and former and incumbent Presidents to implement the PRA.
Executive Order 13233 - This executive order, issued by President George W. Bush on November 1, 2001, supersedes the previous executive order. The Bush executive order also includes the documents of former Vice Presidents.
Executive Order 13489 - Issued by President Barack Obama on January 21, 2009, restored the implementation of the PRA of 1978 as practiced under President Reagan's Executive Order 12667 and revoked President Bush's Executive Order 13233.

[edit] Proposed amendments
Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2007, passed by the House on March 14, 2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Records_Act

Virtually all written communications to or from government entities are public records, available to the public and media upon request. E-mail sent or ...
www.floridapta.org/document/Postcard_2-2011.pdf

Florida Governor Rick Scott - Contact Governor Scott
Please include all information necessary to complete the request including the requestor's ... Under Florida law, e-mail addresses are public records. ...
www.flgov.com/contact-governor-mockup/ - Cached

â–ºEmail Governor Heineman - Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman
Email to Governor Heineman, in connection with the transaction of public business, may be considered a public record and may be subject to disclosure to third parties. ... *All fields must be completed before your e-mail can be sent. ...
www.governor.nebraska.gov/mail/govmail.html

Alaska releases Sarah Palin's e-mails

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska officials on Friday released thousands of pages of Sarah Palin's e-mails from her first 21 months as governor, giving a fresh glimpse at the time when she rose to national prominence and became the GOP vice presidential nominee.

Reporters and photographers crowded into a small office to pick up the six boxes of e-mails — 24,199 pages and weighing 100 pounds. Some carried boxes down the stairs and others, wheeling them on dollies, scrambled to be the first ones to reach elevators.

Within minutes of the release, Palin tweeted a link to the webpage for The Undefeated, a documentary about her rise and time as governor.

Tim Crawford, the treasurer of her political action committee, Sarah PAC, said in a statement that everyone should read the emails. "The thousands upon thousands of e-mails released today show a very engaged Governor Sarah Palin being the CEO of her state," he said.

"The e-mails detail a Governor hard at work," he said.

Palin resigned partway through her first term, in July 2009. Requests also have been made for Palin's final 10 months in office. State officials haven't begun reviewing those records. Sharon Leighow, the spokeswoman for Gov. Sean Parnell, said she doubted the release of those e-mails would come soon.

The e-mails released Friday were first requested during the 2008 White House race by citizens and news organizations, including the Associated Press, as they vetted a nominee whose political experience included less than one term as governor and a term as mayor of the small town of Wasilla.

The nearly three-year delay has been attributed largely to the sheer volume of the release and the flood of requests.

Alaska is releasing the thousands of e-mails in paper form only in Alaska's capital city, accessible by only air or water. Reporters from several news organizations arrived in Juneau and made various plans to disseminate the e-mails to the public.

Palin told Fox News Sunday that she was unfazed by the release of e-mails, saying there are no more rocks that could be turned over about her life or time as governor. But she also said "a lot of those e-mails obviously weren't meant for public consumption" and that she expected people might seek to take some of the messages "out of context."

There may not be any surprises to Palin in the e-mails, however.

Once the state reviewed the records, it gave Palin's attorneys an opportunity to see if they had any privacy concerns with what was being released. No e-mails were withheld or redacted as a result of that, said Linda Perez, Parnell's administrative director in charge of coordinating the release.

The voluminous nature of the release, the isolation of Juneau and the limited bandwidth in the city of 30,000 people have forced media outlets to come up with creative ways to transmit the information.

The Washington Post is looking for "100 organized and diligent readers" to work with reporters to "analyze, contextualize, and research the e-mails." The New York Times is employing a similar system.

Mother Jones, ProPublica and msnbc.com are working with Crivella West Inc. to create a searchable database of the e-mails.

The Associated Press also plans to scan the paper copies to make searchable files available to its members and clients. The state said it was not practical to provide electronic versions of the e-mails.

It's not clear yet whether the pages being released will contain any major revelations. They will cover the period from the time she took office in December 2006 to her ascension to vice presidential nominee in September 2008.

Prior records requests have shed light on the Palin administration's efforts to advance a natural gas pipeline project and the role played by Palin's husband in state business.

The e-mail release adds another dimension to the vetting of Palin that began in 2008 and comes as she has become a prominent national political figure, attracting large crowds during a recent bus tour across the Northeast.

The e-mails were sent and received by Palin's personal and state e-mail accounts, and the ones being released were deemed state business related.

She and top aides were known to communicate using private e-mail accounts. Perez said Palin gave the state a CD with e-mails from her Yahoo account, and other employees were asked to review their private accounts for e-mails related to state business and to send those to their state accounts.

Another 2,275 pages are being withheld for reasons including attorney-client, work product or executive privilege; an additional 140 pages were deemed to be "non-records," or unrelated to state business.

Some e-mails may have been previously reviewed in other, earlier public records requests, such as in the Troopergate investigation, in which Palin was accused of putting pressure on public safety officials to fire her brother-in-law, an Alaska State trooper who was going through a bitter divorce from Palin's sister.

Clive Thomas, a long-time Palin observer who's writing a book on Alaska politics, said he's not sure what the e-mails will contain — or whether their contents will affect people's perceptions of Palin.

"I guess most people, I think, who don't like Sarah Palin are hoping there's something in there that will deliver the final sort of blow to her (politically)," he said. As for Palin's supporters, he said he doesn't think their opinion of her will be changed regardless of what comes out.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2 ... aska_n.htm

Palin supports amnesty for millions of illegal aliens so I really don't care what they do to her.

. . . That free, public, searchable archive is now online, with the first 6,698 pages online, at

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Sad the press don't concern themselves with the present administration which is bringing down America, but wait, they elected him.

Believe nothing you hear/ see with mainstream media,personally i will vote for anyone the media try to marginalize.