On Friday 10 June the state of Alaska released 24,199 pages of emails that
Sarah Palin sent and received during her first 22 months' tenure as governor of Alaska.
Mother Jones,
msnbc.com and
ProPublica are partnering in publishing an online searchable archive of the emails.
As Mother Jones reported, this saga began with a request that
David Corn, Mother Jones' Washington bureau chief, made almost three years ago.
As Corn reported, when
John McCain chose Palin in 2008 as his vice in the presidential election running, reporters started a rush in digging into her past looking for interesting information.
Even before that time, in June 2008,
Andrée McLeod, a citizen activist in Alaska, used the state's open-records law to request emails sent to and from two Palin's top aides to investigate the pair's political behaviour during official business hours.
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