McCain And Palin Personally Approved Email Hunt For Leaks

The Plum Line:

John McCain and Sarah Palin both personally approved an intensive internal search of the emails of top campaign staffers in order to determine who had been leaking damaging information about Palin to reporters, McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt just told me in an interview.

"John McCain and Sarah Palin were both informed that we were doing this in an attempt to catch the person," Schmidt told me, referring to his decision to undertake the email search, which has been the topic of fierce controversy since it was revealed yesterday.

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Comments

[dsmyre]

They're not denying the truth of the infor that was leaked.
They just want to catch the leaker and slap him around.

[CML96]

The content of the e-mails can be backed up by factual data. (Todd's association with AIP)

The more damaging information from these e-mail exchanges is Palin's attempt to spin the truth and cover-up the facts.

Now I understand why so many ethics complaints have been filed against this governor by the people in Alaska.

[IndyGirl19]

It is only too bad that Palin controls the Personnel Board that handles the complaints. What a strange conflict of interest, but that's Alaska... the last frontier.

[hortonhearsdawho]

well now, did they check on those two wonderful daughters of theirs..

[digeridoo2]

Sounds like a non-story. They approved of finding out who was talking bad about Palin from inside their camp? Duh...how this passes for news I guess I'll never understand. Way to keep Palin in the limelight.

[puffthedragon]

Point is that Palin and McCain did not even try to deny the accusations

[hortonhearsdawho]

it's sarah, of course it involves nonsense, but, don't dont confuse the two...it is a story about her nonsense.

[notyouraveragebear]

That's all the repiglican party has left -

non-stories, non-important people.

[digeridoo2]

My question is, why is HP running this? To make sure it's followers stay riled up? They treat it like it's some kind of earth shattering aha moment. Dumb.

[TFlint]

Anything that adds information to the public knowledge "passes for news."

[maryjflyfree]

TRANSLATION: hurrup! quick! plug the hole we're losing even more traction! our division is being shown to the world; we must appear united!

too late the cat's out the bag and we already knew who these people are. remember the guy that showed up with the monkey with the president's name on its shirt? there is no more evidence needed to see who these people are at their core. thank God they lost the election.

[jane gutowski]

Yeah its a good thing Sarah and McCain arent in office or we might not have a 9.5 % jobless rate , we wouldnt get to own a car company after we bailed them out after we were told they couldnt file bankrupsy and then filed bankrupsy. We would have 17 unemployed czars running around looking for jobs and Gitmo prisoners wouldnt get to swim in the ocean.We wouldnt get to pay excessive electric bills because we might cause global warming only not really as reports disproving that theory were hidden.And ACORN wouldnt get billions of our tax payer money even though they were indicted for fraud and dont forget that turtles would have to look both ways before they crossed the street in Florida because they wouldnt have their 3.5 billion dollar tunnel for safe crossing.

[CR46]

Please contact your local adult education services and take some english lessons.

[puffthedragon]

Be thankful that Sarah is not VP or she would be forcing all of us to speak like her and the above poster.

[ckfan]

LOL.

[NTexasHillbilly]

Jane is a a little light on punctuation, syntax and coherent thought.

[DressEyebrows]

If I politely reply to your statement point by point, drawing attention to the unfactual, the hyperbolic, the hypothetical, and the hysterical, will you scream that liberals are trying to take away your freedom of speech?

[Decipherer]

How much time do you have?

[breakingnews3]

Todd Palin, is that you??

[nclayla]

I really don't know which is the more apalling, Jane, the essence of your rambling thoughts or your English language skills.

[sloreader]

What? You are not a fan of uber free association?

[foxbat]

When one hears the old saying, "The pen is mightier than the sword," one often thinks of the sheer cutting, satirical slicing, and surgical precision of a well-written opinion piece. This one was more like blunt force trauma.

[on2them]

and it hurt a lot more just trying to read it.

[Prakosh]

Didn't McCain have a secret plan to catch bin Laden that he would only tell us about when he was elected. isn't it UnAmerican to have a plan to catch a terrorist and refuse to give it to the CIA or other responsible governmental agency. And if he had done so wouldn't have bin Laden already have been caught? Or is 6 months too soon to have already caught bin Laden but not too soon for Obama to have fixed all the problems left behind?

[puffthedragon]

Nice point!

[on2them]

actually, I believe he was going to use ms. mooseburger for bait but got word she wasn't his type

[puffthedragon]

Was he going to try to pass her off as a virgin?

[bdaved]

Eric Cartman had better luck with a different kind of bait, kind of accidentally.

[sloreader]

Guess he filed that info under "neener neener neener".

[blues101]

Whoever leaked deserves a medal of honor from this country - considering what might have happened to all of us if we didn't see this pair's true colors. And spying on people's emails is against the law unless it's what shrub called a matter of national security. No excuse except political dishonesty with these three.

[greenriverkate]

Gawd, are we wasting time and space on a non human AGAIN?

[bosha]

McCain and Palin deserved each other McCain is a washed up Senator and Palin whatever..­..

[noamjunior]

many honorable people worked on the McCain campaign believing McCain to be the independant moderate he was in 2000 - they must have felt like suckers by october when McCain/Palin was in full meltdown mode

[philosopherkingtomas]

trick, trigg, track and the Tramp !

[cactusgal]

Great job, Mac! Now where's bin Laden?

[SharpDressedMan]

Sitting in a cave wishing he had the chance to throw his shoes at W.

[cactusgal]

Or at least his Birkenstocks

[wndrwrthg]

Sarah just wanted to do the hunt from a helicopter with a rifle.

[CML96]

Does anyone really believe that Todd Palin, who has lived in Alaska his entire life, does not know about the Alaska Independent Party and what it stands for. Oh ya, he just checked the party affiliation box by mistake.

[redsongia]

seriously. worst Palin lie ever.

[noamjunior]

given that she sent a prepared video to their convention- Id say its in the top ten

[IndyGirl19]

someone posted a PDF of the form at www.themudflats.net. the two boxes are separated by many inches of text. plus one is under the heading of Political Party and reads "Alaska Independent PARTY" and the other is under the heading of Other and reads something like "nonaffili­ated."

And the "mistake" was not caught in SEVEN YEARS? right. Schmidt was being honest in this email. He knew Palin was lying.

[IndyGirl19]

I should have typed "Alaska IndependeCE Party"

[me again]

Inquiring minds want to know who would possibly leak on Palin.....­...didn't know she was into that sort of stuff.....­.

[anney]

Yeah, and you have to wonder if they found the leaker since nothing's been said. What could they do to the person now anyway? It wasn't illegal, and America certainly deserved to know that she was a diva and a whackjob since she appeared out of nowhere. But the truth is that we didn't need a leak to discover that -- she made it quite clear herself.