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Sometime today the state if Alaska is going to release some 24,000 email sent or received by Sarah Palin during her half-term as governor.

The Washington Post has asked for volunteers to read through them and find interesting stuff. They will then do further investigation and stories about whatever they decide is worth a followup.

The emails will be here, posted in batches. They expect the first batch to be available around 2 or 3 PM Eastern Time.
Readers are encouraged to post comments and chat here, to alert the Post staff, and in part to let others know which emails have been examined so there isn’t a lot of wasteful duplication of effort.

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The Huffington Post is asking its readers to go through the emails as well.

Somehow I don’t think anyone would have been this obsessed over Newt Gingrich’s emails.

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That’s because Newt, for all his faults, tends to speak in coherent sentences. I have a feeling that most of those who will be perusing The Divine Sarah’s emails will be looking for the next great Palinism more than political scandal.

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The New York Times also has a special section on their website, The Palin Emails. Of note, some emails were redacted not for national security reasons, but because of “offensive language”. What could Sarah Palin have written that would be considered so offensive? :eek:

You can go through the emails by date. It helps to know what happened on each particular date. When you find a noteworthy email send a note to the NYT editors. If you include your name and email they might contact you and your research may be printed in the article series. So you’d be a Doper journalist!

I don’t think that The Palin Emails will be as historical as the WikiLeaks article series; however, it will arguably be relevant for next year.

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There is really a LOT of redacted material, which of course is leading people to wonder who made those decisions and why. I search the entire archive for the name “Wooten” – the state trooper at the center of the “Troopergate” scandal – and his name doesn’t appear even once. And we KNOW she communicated about him quite a bit because she was eventually found to have violated some state ethics laws.

Don’t know if his name was among the redactions, or she had a more private channel for her more dubious activities.