State probes email use in Palin aide's memoir

[RamboLiberal]

The Alaska attorney general's office says it's investigating a charge that former Sarah Palin aide Frank Bailey wrongfully used state emails as the basis for his coming book slamming the ex-governor.

Assistant Attorney General Margaret Paton Walsh on Friday wrote to Anchorage activist Andree McLeod, who filed an ethics complaint against Bailey in September and has been repeatedly asking since what's being done about it.

"In addition to the ongoing investigation ... this office has been working with Enterprise Technology Services, the state's IT division, to ascertain whether the state is missing emails that are state records and which Mr. Bailey may have in his possession," she wrote to McLeod.

"Please be assured that we take this matter very seriously and are working to ensure that the state has possession of all state records and emails," Paton Walsh wrote.



Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/05/09/1853909/state-probes-possible-wrongful.html#ixzz1Lz8acOV1

[EC]

1. Aren't state e-mails public property?

As in canned be veiwed and requested by the public?

[LiberalAndProud]

2. How assenine is this?

to ascertain whether the state is missing emails that are state records and which Mr. Bailey may have in his possession


Even if he has them, I very much doubt the state would be missing them. I'm not picking sides here, but

dayum!