Courtesy of The Register over on the UK.
There are a couple of interesting twists in this case. First, a judge has ordered Sarah Palin to maintain records of her Yahoo! email traffic. Second, while Palin has claimed “executive privilege” regarding said email, according to Alaska law, such privilege is waived if the Governor shares the contents of that email with a member of the general public. As it happens, her husband is NOT an elected official or employee of the state and qualifies as “a member of the general public.” Since Palin has forwarded copies of some of these emails to her husband, executive privilege does not exist for any email going to or from that account.
Whoops.
The final footnote in this article mentions that an entire week’s worth of email from the Vice President’s office has “gone missing” from government archives. Seems that Dick and Sarah have something in common.
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