yawn On Oct 12, 5:56 am, "[ the last patriotic Republican ]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > State scrambles to gather Gov. Sarah Palin private > e-mailshttp://www.adn.com/palin/story/552319.html > The state is bustling to try to comply with a court order issued today > that requires Gov. Sarah Palin and everyone else in the governor's > office to preserve all e-mails issued from private accounts that > concern state business. > > The state didn't fight activist Andree McLeod's request for a > temporary restraining order to force Palin, the GOP vice presidential > nominee, and her office to hold onto the private e-mails, said Mike > Mitchell, an assistant attorney general. Anchorage Superior Court > Judge Craig Stowers ruled largely for McLeod after a hearing today. > > "We entered into the hearing ... willing to work to preserve those e- > mails that do relate to state business that may have been sent to or > from private accounts to the extent they can be preserved at this > point," Mitchell said. > > The state is going to try to find out which governor's office > employees used private e-mails for state business and then try to > preserve those e-mails and pull them into the state's e-mail system, > he said. > > McLeod, a former state employee who has run for office several times, > filed a lawsuit against Palin over the governor's use of private e- > mail, outside the secure state system. > > Palin had at least two private Yahoo accounts and used one for state > business. A couple of other employees in the governor's office, Ivy > Frye and Frank Bailey, also used private e-mail accounts for state > work at times. But it's not clear how widespread the practice has > been. Close to 90 people have worked in the governor's office since > Palin took office in December 2006, counting those in the Office of > Management and Budget and the lieutenant governor's office. Mitchell > said he believed the practice was minimal. > > Palin's Yahoo accounts were canceled in September after a Tennessee > college student allegedly reset her password, got into one of the > accounts and posted screen shots of her inbox and a couple of messages > onto a publicly available Web site. > > ADVERTISEMENT > > Separate from the Yahoo accounts, Bailey set up another private e-mail > system this spring for Palin and some of her insiders, according to > the Washington Post. > > Mitchell said he'll have to work with the governor's office and the > technical support staff to figure out how to pursue the e-mails that > may still be in the possession of Yahoo or other e-mail service > providers. > > According to Yahoo, once a user deletes an e-mail, "the actual message > content may take a couple of days to a couple of months to be > completely eliminated from our storage facilities." > > Any recovered e-mails will be released in response to requests for > public information, if they are not otherwise exempt, Mitchell said. > McLeod and others have been seeking Palin's e-mails. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
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