Sarah Palin Documents: Emails Released By Alaska Government (TEXT)

After a more than two and a half years of delays, the state of Alaska released on Friday thousands of emails sent and received by Sarah Palin during her tenure as governor. The emails were originally sought by journalists, citizens and other groups in September 2008, shortly after Palin was tapped by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to serve as the Republican Party's vice presidential nominee. The emails' release was repeatedly delayed, in part because of the sheer number of files, and in part because Palin used a personal email address to conduct public business -- complicating and expanding the records request.

With more than 24,000 pages of emails expected to be released (totaling 250 pounds of paper), The Huffington Post needs your help sorting through the documents. Please read over these emails and tell us what you find. See anything interesting on Todd Palin? Sarah's vice presidential run? Something entirely new? Tell us about anything notable you find here or email us at [e-mail]. (Be sure to let us know the page number.)

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Below is the complete set of Palin emails. These emails were scanned by the Associated Press.

December 2006 through March 2007

April 2007 to August 2007

September 2007 to January 2008

February 2008 to May 2008

June 2008 to September 2008

Comments

[michelesda]

09:58 AM on 06/14/2011

Much though I despise Sarah Palin, there is something about the image of crowdsourcing the Sisyphian task of pawing through 250 lb of her old email that seems redolent of rats behind the sheetrock. Sure, it's necessary work, it's the only really practical way to do it, and somebody might conceivably turn up something politically significant, for better or worse. On the other hand, considering what a lightning rod Moose-tang Sally has made of herself over time, what do you bet the more compelling motivation among a certain percentage of volunteers will be more along the lines of turning up something personally tabloid-worthy on Lady Blah-Blah and/or her hapless clan? Personally, I rejoice to have oh so many better ways to spend my time.

[southernblue]

03:23 PM on 06/14/2011

I'm not so interested in her personal life. I've had enough of it! However, her professional life and decisions she made, trite battles, petty political revenges, those do interest me. I can't for the life of me understand how anyone can behave like she does and maintain the gall that she has!

[michelesda]

04:42 PM on 06/14/2011

IMO it has a lot to do with not knowing any better. For me it's hard to believe that someone who has been out in the world as much as she has for the last couple of years, however suddenly, can still be so unworldly. I can only guess it's because she only talks to Fox News and terminal fans who pay her a lot of money for the, um, privilege, and pretty much takes her Alaska bubble with her wherever she goes.

[madisonhack]

09:11 PM on 06/13/2011

Is this thread still alive? Or did it quit working like Palin?

[TheTruthSayer]

06:55 PM on 06/13/2011

If I didn't know better, I'd think that HP actually likes her and is desperately trying to create sympathy and interest for this very average woman.

[David Wertheimer]

08:11 PM on 06/13/2011

HP actually love the animosity this brings keeps their ratings up not hers lol we are all victims of a practical joke

[TheTruthSayer]

06:50 PM on 06/13/2011

Yet another HuffPo article on Palin, featuring a photo with her mouth agape. I think we've got it, now...

[notright guy]

06:31 PM on 06/13/2011

I blame John Mac for this blathering fake candidate. The files were redacted by Palin team. Not a story here move along...

[livesimply]

06:21 PM on 06/13/2011

All I have to say is:
1. Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
2. Very little of what I saw was written by Palin herself
3. Who the heck is going to read 24,000 pages (already edited) email?

[intellectualTradition]

06:04 PM on 06/13/2011

when hp goes off line. you can say this article was the one that made you know their days were numbered.

help us find some dirt on palin ? really ?

[ECB]

06:38 PM on 06/13/2011

But your posts help keep HP alive and well. "You betcha" wink, wink.

[TheTruthSayer]

06:53 PM on 06/13/2011

I hope Ariana has cashed that check, I'm beginning to hear some odd noises coming from the engine compartment..

[glorysong]

06:01 PM on 06/13/2011

I wonder if they made Heads are tails of those E-mails. If they read like she talk, they are in trouble.

[redsongia]

05:58 PM on 06/13/2011

Who really cares? She's not the vice presidential nominee anymore, though it seems no one told her and her bus driver.

[SECT Dem]

04:54 PM on 06/13/2011

the biggest non-event since Y2K

[HaeJee]

01:47 PM on 06/13/2011

I am not a Palin fan, yet I would never waste my time reading emails she wrote. I find posting them for everyone to read tacky. I don't support her politically and found her comments in 2008 to be offensive. I find that the media has found away to pit two groups with two different opinions against each, so they can profit along with Palin.

[OliverEdwards]

07:39 PM on 06/13/2011

bravo!

[Jhames Alyn]

01:46 PM on 06/13/2011

If she writes anything like she speaks, they would impossible to understand! Did she write all those e-mails using a crayon?

[zunklives]

07:35 PM on 06/13/2011

That would be funny, crayola coming out with stylus program and a crayon looking stylus to go along with it, that Palin is the spokesperson for. "I have used crayons for years"- Sarah Palin

[bmike]

01:28 PM on 06/13/2011

Sara e-mail sound like a normal person and that is not good with today nut cases on the right.That is who she was hiding it from. The e-mails were the Sara we thought we were getting.

[michelesda]

12:21 PM on 06/13/2011

Palin has spoiled us. She's gotten us so used to thinking of her as a walking national punchline/blithering idiot that it seems surprising, kind of touching in a way, to read some little long-ago statement she wrote that actually makes some kind of sense.

[didyouseethat]

11:55 AM on 06/13/2011

Even the UK is amused by the lame stream media.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100091820/american-way-sarah-palin-email-frenzy-backfires-on-her-media-antagonists/

[zunklives]

07:38 PM on 06/13/2011

Yeah, who owns most of the UK media?