Lawsuit over IWRC* Palin's e-mails gets under way today

By GottaLaff

That wacky, screechy, hockey puck IWRC* Palin is sure-as-shootin'-busy these days:

A lawsuit aimed at forcing Gov. Sarah Palin to preserve any private e-mails she wrote involving state business hits the courtroom today.

Former state employee Andree McLeod filed the suit a week ago. The goal, she said, is to make Palin retrieve e-mails from her private accounts that involve state business and make them part of the state's public records.

McLeod has filed a records request for the e-mails and other records. The lawsuit also calls on Palin to stop using private accounts for state business, she said.

Palin spokeswoman Sharon Leighow said Thursday she can't comment on pending litigation.

A hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. today in Anchorage Superior Court.

Bush III, Cheney II: Super duper ultra mega top secret e-mails. Meanwhile...

I hope she can keep up. I'd hate to see her break a heel:

The Alaska Supreme Court has cleared for possible release to the public today the Legislature's highly anticipated investigative report on whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power.

I'm sure I'll be at work when the news breaks on that one. Phooey. I miss all the fun.

*"In What Respect, Charlie?"

Internal Hillary campaign e-mails to be revealed

By GottaLaff

Check this out... and get ready for a rocky week ahead:

Just when you thought everyone had moved on... former advisers to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton are in a tizzy over an upcoming piece in the Atlantic Monthly that chronicles the inner workings of the now-defunct campaign. Of particular concern are nearly 200 internal memos that the author, Josh Green, obtained -- 130 or so of which he plans to scan in and post online. When the piece is published sometime next week, readers will be able to scroll through the memos, from senior strategists such as Mark Penn, Harold Ickes and Geoff Garin, and see what exactly was going on inside the infamously fractured Clinton organization. That has some former team members in a panic. And we thought the Abramoff e-mails were fun....

Uh-ohhh....

AP once cozy with Rove: "Keep up the fight"

By GottaLaff

Chumminess between the press and the gestapo. How appropriate:

In its investigation of the misleading accounts that initially surrounded Pat Tillman's death and Jessica Lynch's rescue the House Oversight Committee on Monday shed some light on the White House's press-management apparatus and the chummy relationship between Karl Rove and AP scribe Ron Fournier.

It's good to have friends. Always be kind to your pals, because there's no telling how they'll repay the favor.

In the day's after Tillman's death, on April 22, 2004, the committee examined e-mails from the White House's communications team, including some exchanges with reporters.

Commentators and reporters contacted the White House to offer advice. For example, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan e-mailed the White House’s Director of Strategic Initiatives, Peter Wehner, recommending that he “find out what faith Tillman practiced and have the president go by that church and light a candle or say a prayer.” Karl Rove exchanged e-mails about Pat Tillman with Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier, under the subject line “H-E-R-O.” In response to Mr. Fournier’s e-mail, Mr. Rove asked, “How does our country continue to produce men and women like this,” to which Mr. Fournier replied, “The Lord creates men and women like this all over the world. But only the great and free countries allow them to flourish. Keep up the fight.”

How patriotic and devoted. I- I think I'm tearing up. Who could ever fault a message like that?

The 51-page examination reveals a White House more interested in crafting a good story around Tillman and Army Pvt. Jessica Lynch, whose capture and rescue in the early days of the Iraq war was dramatized in official White House and Pentagon pronouncements.

Our nation also has an inviolate obligation to share truthful information with a soldier’s family and the American people should injury or death occur....

That standard was not met in either Corporal Tillman’s or Private Lynch’s cases.

My head is spinning from the vastness of the bottomless sack of wrong that this government has produced.

White House staff exchanged more than 200 e-mails concerning Tillman's death, according to the Oversight Committee report (.pdf).

Okay, break over. Back to racism.