In the five minutes that she was governor of Alaska, she kept two email addresses – her public one and a private one that was also used for public business she wanted to keep confidential:
In a Feb. 2, 2007 e-mail, Palin told her inner circle, including
family members, advisors and her chief of staff, that "My NEW personal/private/confidential account will now be:
gov.sarah@yahoo.com All other people will be emailing me through the state system at governor@gov.state.ak.us and that is NOT a confidential/private account so — warning — everyone and their mother will be able to read emails that arrive via that state address."
Should those allegedly private emails now be released?
Palin's definition of "private", like her definition of most things, is post-modern:
Palin addressed the Feb. 2, 2007 e-mail to "Friends/Family." Among those who received her note were her new attorney general, chief of staff and a few advisors, including John Bitney and Ivy Frye.
Alaska Dispatch has received and just published the contents of several of Palin's "private" emails. They bust her cover-story.
The Dish 