Alaska must release Palin e-mails by May 31, state AG declares

[kpete]

Source: MSNBC

Alaska must release Palin e-mails by May 31, state AG declares

Jake Roth / AP

More than 25,000 e-mails from the Sarah Palin administration may finally become public.

By Bill Dedman


The state of Alaska has until May 31 to release about 25,000 pages of e-mails from former Gov. Sarah Palin and senior members of her administration, the state attorney general declared Wednesday.

As we reported last month, by May the delays in dealing with public records from the Palin administration will have stretched out longer than the Palin administration itself. She was governor for 966 days. By May 31, the request from msnbc.com for the official records will be 986 days old. State regulations usually require records to be made available within 10 days, but state officials said they were overwhelmed by the volume of the e-mails.

Officials in the governor's office asked the attorney general to approve a 15th delay in the process, until May 31. That request was approved Wednesday by the new attorney general, John J. Burns.

But Burns said this deadline is firm:
"I am granting the requested extension with the unequivocal expectation that all requested records that are not privileged will be provided no later than May 31, 2011," Burns wrote in a letter to the administrative director of the governor's office. He sent a copy of the letter to the news organizations and citizens who have requested records, including msnbc.com. (Msnbc.com also pressed the Obama administration to release more of its White House visitor logs.)

Read more: http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/27/5935487-alaska-must-release-palin-e-mails-by-may-31-state-ag-declares

[Broderick]

1. YUMMY

[Drale]

2. Cant wait to see what horrible things she wrote about a Governor

[kestrel91316]

3. They will claim they are ALL privileged and won't release ANY, I bet.

[MessiahRp]

5. I don't even know what constitutes "privileged" for a Governor anyway...

It's not like they deal with national security so there shouldn't be any classified emails in there at all. They should all be available to the public.

Rp

[Joanne98]

4. YAY

[cynzke]

6. Privileged!

As in, releasing these will be very embarrassing, further proof she's an idiot.

[fascisthunter]

7. she didn't get her way....Oh My!!!!

[Mojeoux]

8. Well we now have a countdown to find out.

Ha Ha

[xchrom]

9. You gotta wonder just how much Stooopid is

In those emails.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

10. Now that would make a great reality show.

Sarah Palin's Alsska Emails

[boppers]

11. "25,000 e-mails" or "25,000 pages of e-mails"?

Which is it?

[SpiralHawk]

12. What are she & her RepubliCronies hiding?

They MUST MUST MUST be ashamed of something, right?
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