Rick Davis, campaign manager for John McCain, released a statement calling the publication a “shocking invasion of the governor’s privacy and a violation of law.”
“The matter has been turned over to the appropriate authorities and we hope that anyone in possession of these e-mails will destroy them. We will have no further comment,” Davis said.
The Peter Rost blog has the following thought . . . perhaps if Ms. Palin hadn't tried to hide official business among personal e-mails to avoid getting them scrutinized, hackers would never have come up with this idea. After all, no one hacked McCain's email. Oh yeah, sorry, he doesn't know how to use e-mail, nor a computer.
It's already been widely reported that Palin and her associates used their private emails for conducting government business, in order to avoid the archiving and oversight that governmental email addresses are subject to.
The governor's Yahoo account is "the most nonsensical, inane thing I've ever heard of," said Andree McLeod, who is appealing the administration's decision to withhold e-mails.
Screen shots of Palin email.
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Kudos to you, Doc, for keeping the story and info. available. First Palin wouldn't answer questions, then she wouldn't allow questions, and then we found out that so much of her official business was being hidden in personal e-mail accounts to avoid archiving or the disinfectant of sunlight on hers-- or any public official's-- behavior. This just smacks so much of what Karl Rove got the White House and Cheney's offices doing after taking office so that when subpoenaed the e-mails and communications ranging from illegal political retaliation firings of U.S. Attorneys, the illegal exposing of CIA Agent Valerie Plame for political purposes, the communications that verified the actual (non-disclosed) cost of the non-negotiation provisions of the Medicare Part D legislation, and countless other communications deserving the light of day in a system of open government, a constitutional order of separate but equal powers with oversight of one another, etc. If these public officials are going to break the law to cover up public information in a Kremlin-esque manner, then I appreciate the talents of those who are able to make this information available to us as voters in this grand experiment in self-government-- for as much longer as that can last.
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