E-mails sent by Sarah Palin during her tenure as governor of Alaska will be released Friday at 9 a.m. at the state capitol in Juneau — and The Fix will be there.
The messages were requested by a number of journalists and citizens during the 2008 campaign when Palin was the Republican vice presidential nominee, but the governor’s office — under both Palin and her successor, Gov. Sean Parnell (R) — has repeatedly sought to delay the release. Officials said they were simply technologically unprepared to handle the requests.
In January, after about a thousand days of delay, the Alaska attorney general declared that the e-mails had to be released by the end of May. (New requests for copies delayed the printing until now).
Some long-time Palin observers are skeptical that the release will bring anything revelatory.
A challenge is pending in the Alaska Supreme Court over whether the private e-mails about state business should be made public. When Palin was governor, she was criticized for using a private account for work-related reasons. Like some members of the Bush administration, she was accused of attempting to get around open records laws. Courts have ordered her to preserve those e-mails in case they are deemed public.
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