Governor's 2 e-mail accounts questioned (Palin)

[brooklynite]

Source: Anchorage Daily News

Moments after Gov. Sarah Palin's first speech as Republican John McCain's running mate, she sat with her kids backstage, thumbing one of the two BlackBerrys that are always with her. You can see them in photographs from that day on the campaign blog of one of McCain's daughters.

The tech-savvy governor has one of the devices (which allow users to read and send e-mails) for state business, another for personal matters, but those worlds intertwine.

Palin routinely uses a private Yahoo e-mail account to conduct state business. Others in the governor's office sometimes use personal e-mail accounts too.

The practice raises questions about backdoor secrecy in an administration that vowed during the 2006 campaign to be "open and transparent."

Read more: http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/526281.html

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Hmm, using private email accounts to conduct Government business. Why does that http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/washington/12emails.html">sound familiar?

nb - if you're not doing so already, I recommend a daily visit to the Anchorage Daily News.

[Callalily]

1. Back door government.

I'm not surprised.

[dennis4868]

2. why does this sound familiar.....

hmmmmmmm....

[sellitman]

3. Yet another sexist post on DU

:sarcasm:

[Democat]

4. Leave the poor woman alone, she was a POW!

:evilgrin:

[George II]

12. No, she's a POT (Prisoner of Todd)!!

not to mention her kids, who routinely SMOKE pot.

[Duer 157099]

15. POW? POT? Try POS n/t

[SaveAmerica]

16. No, you're out of the loop, she's a S.O.W. (with lipstick!!)

[jakem]

5. Considering that you can have multiple email accounts on one BB-

she is clearly hiding politics on the personal one.

there is no other reason to have 2 IMO.

[krkaufman]

17. Well, there *would* be a good reason to have 2 Blackberrys ...

... to avoid doing any personal or political business on the government-supplied BB. However, the issue is that it is believed that she's using her personal BB account to conduct state business, because she believes it will protect those emails from freedom on information discovery requests.

[moose65]

6. This sounds SO fishy

How can she justify doing that? She is definitely trying to hide something. Even in my little, non-political job, I would never think of using my private gmail account to send work-related emails.

[MissMillie]

7. not unlike the current White House occupants

who use RNC computers for official government business...

[trthnd4jstc]

8. In Alaska is it a law that all Government Business must be open to scrutiny?

In Illinois Missouri there are Sunshine laws, does Alaska have such?

[sattahipdeep]

9. Yahoo In the dead of winter....

Palin routinely uses a private Yahoo e-mail account to conduct state business. Others in the governor's office sometimes use personal e-mail accounts too.

Her staff says the governor is open -- within reason and within the law.

http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/526281.html


subpoenaed....

Palin aide Ivy Frye

Todd Palin

• Kris Perry, a Palin confidant who managed her gubernatorial campaign and now manages her Anchorage office.

• Nicki Neal, state personnel and labor relations director.

• Karen Rehfeld, the governor's budget director.

• Brad Thompson, state risk management director.

• Dianne Kiesel, a state human resources manager.


http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/breaking-news-todd-palin-subpoenaed/

[EnviroBat]

13. Love the picture....

Shame that bitch would like to see those made into rugs for her fucking floors.

Sarah Palin is a complete A S S H O L E!!!

[sattahipdeep]

14. The administration's e-mail correspondence reveals a siegelike atmosphere.

Top aides keep score, demean enemies and gloat over successes.

A Wasilla Chamber of Commerce official stood up Tuesday and asked members to refer all calls from reporters to Palin's office. In the audience, Councilwoman Diane Woodruff shook her head.

"I was thinking, I don't remember giving up my First Amendment rights," said Woodruff, who has been critical of Palin's record as mayor. "Just because you're not going gaga over Sarah doesn't mean you can't speak your mind."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008178167_palin14.html


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3488139


When Steiner obtained the e-mails — through a federal records request — he discovered that state scientists in fact had agreed that the bears were in trouble, records show.

[krkaufman]

18. No, I don't think she cares what comes of the bears ...

... so long as they don't stand in the way of more drilling.

[yellowcanine]

10. It is an old Rovian trick so why would we be surprised?

[George II]

11. FOI FOI FOI FOI !!!

Guess she took a crash course from Cheney before she accepted the nomination?