Yet More Creeping Cheneyism
by David Waldman
Thu Sep 11, 2008 at 04:16:02 PM PST
Remember those 1100+ e-mails that Slick Sally Palin is trying to hide from investigators?
Turns out she's cribbed more off the Bush/Cheney/Rove axis than we previously knew. Not only is she claiming executive privilege for e-mails she copied to her husband Todd (whose personal vendettas she was often carrying out on the state dime), but those messages supposedly about official state business were being sent on her personal Yahoo! account, and the intent to evade official record keeping couldn't be more clear:
Palin also routinely does government business from a Yahoo address, gov.sarah@yahoo.com, rather than from her secure official state e-mail address, according to documents already made public.
"Whoops!" Palin aide Frank Bailey wrote, after addressing an e-mail to the governor's official state address.
"Frank, This is not the Governor's personal account," a secretary reminded him.
"Whoops!"
Well, what do you know? The use of outside e-mail address to conduct supposedly official business? Business they claimed was official, but knew in their hearts was dirty, backstabbing, deeply personal, and illegal at its core.
No one could have foreseen this.
Can America afford to install Slick Sally in the House that Cheney Built? Consider that Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has sue just to ensure that Cheney doesn't use his b.s. "Fourth Branch" theory to claim he's exempt from the Presidential Records Act.
Can you imagine electing this total cipher to national office, only to find out she uses the position to go even deeper into hiding?
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