Sarah Palin has dodged journalist's FOI request for 20 days longer than her actual tenure

[TalkingDog]

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/42071/sarah-palins-transparency-problem/


Sarah Palin has a problem with the truth. Despite repeated requests — and even more delays — the former Alaska Governor has yet to release emails sent and received while she was in office. Meanwhile, the origin story for “refudiate” took on shades of untruth this week. Palin’s lack of transparency will only hurt her dimming chances in 2012.

Back in 2008, when John McCain chose Palin has his running mate, a number of news organizations—the Associated Press, NBC News and ‘The Juneau Empire’—filed a Freedom of Information request to review 25,000 of Palin’s gubernatorial correspondence with her husband and senior staff. Alaska law says all requests must be processed within 10 days, but state staffers, all hired by either Palin or her former running mate, have filed fifteen delays in the emails’ release.

Palin’s team has requested yet another delay, this time until May 30, 2011, which would put the total amount of days passed at 986 days, twenty more than Palin’s total tenure in office, 966.

Alaska Attorney Generals—three have worked on this case so far—have offered numerous explanations for why the records remain sealed: They couldn’t produce electronic copies, even though Alaska’s law specifies they must; it was too expensive; they have to review which emails contain classified secrets; the new governor, Palin’s former running mate, Sean Parnell, has to green light every decision. The list goes on, and the clock continues to tick.

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She's refudiating their requestimications.

[niyad]

1. pity that someone on the inside can't just do a wikileaks on those docs. . . .