Coming real soon: Sarah Palin's emails. Or at least some of them. And you'll get to read them in a searchable archive.
During the 2008 presidential campaign, I filed a request under Alaska's open records law, for all—yes, all—of Palin's gubernatorial emails. Other journalists and citizen activists later did the same. And after many delays—see here and here—the state is finally preparing to release those emails, probably within the next week or so.
But not all of the emails from Palin's half-term as governor will be made public. In a letter that was recently sent to me and other requesters, the state says it will be disclosing 24,199 pages of records. But it notes, "We withheld and redacted some records that are responsive to your request." Previously the state said that it had located and/or recovered 26,552 pages of emails. This suggests that state of Alaska is withholding 2,353 pages. And there's no telling how heavily the remainder of the emails will be redacted.
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