Would You Pay $10,000 for Sarah Palin's Emails?

By GottaLaff

David Corn filed an open records request so that he could access all of Sarah Palin's official-capacity e-mails. You really should go read his post, because I can't possibly summarize the convoluted mess of hoops the Palin Bunch wants him to jump through.

Suffice it to say, she must have something to hide, or really need the money, or both. Corn's not giving up, but Also Palin is doing everything she can to discourage him.

Here's a sample:

At a time when Palin was on the hot seat as Senator John McCain's vice presidential running mate, her office replied that it would cost over $65,000 to round up all of Palin's emails and that Mother Jones would have to cover this cost.

The problem: Palin had used at least two nonofficial email accounts (such as a Yahoo account) to conduct her state business. Given that the governor's office did not have access to those accounts, its information specialists had concluded that the only way to gather all her emails would be to search the state email accounts for about 70 people who worked within the executive offices of the governor and look for emails to and from Palin's nonofficial email accounts. Palin's office estimated it would cost almost a thousand dollars for each search of these 70 or so official accounts.

She probably needs the money to reimburse Neiman Marcus.