Oops, those e-mails aren't supposed to hurt US

[TVDOC]

You missed my point, I was making the comparison how the focus was on that 18 minutes and how the focus this time will be on the missing emails.

I don't think that I've missed your point.......in Nixon's case the tapes required a "Special Prosecutor" and a subpoena to obtain........18 minutes were erased, gone, kaput........an obvious cover-up.

In Palin's case, 200 documents were placed before the Attorney General of Alaska, and he (and likely a state judge) reviewed them and determined that they were beyond the purview of the FoIA.  They still exist.....they are there.......they just can't be publically released.  No cover-up.  Not that MSM won't claim that, but 200 documents out of 24,000 would seem to me, as an average unbiased observer.....to be reasonable.

For all we know, Alaska has many military installations, and those emails possibly have "national security" implications........a damn good reason for withholding their publication.

doc

[Freeper]

I don't think that I've missed your point.......in Nixon's case the tapes required a "Special Prosecutor" and a subpoena to obtain........18 minutes were erased, gone, kaput........an obvious cover-up.

In Palin's case, 200 documents were placed before the Attorney General of Alaska, and he (and likely a state judge) reviewed them and determined that they were beyond the purview of the FoIA.  They still exist.....they are there.......they just can't be publically released.  No cover-up.  Not that MSM won't claim that, but 200 documents out of 24,000 would seem to me, as an average unbiased observer.....to be reasonable.

For all we know, Alaska has many military installations, and those emails possibly have "national security" implications........a damn good reason for withholding their publication.

doc

My point has nothing to do with the legalities of either case. The point is how the conspiracy theorists will run with what is missing rather than with what is there. In both cases they create what they think went on in the missing data. I bet you anything in the next few days there are going to be all kinds of speculation of what was in the missing emails, and they will run with it as gospel truth like they do with any conspiracy theory that they can come up with to blast republicans.

[FiddyBeowulf]

My point has nothing to do with the legalities of either case. The point is how the conspiracy theorists will run with what is missing rather than with what is there. In both cases they create what they think went on in the missing data. I bet you anything in the next few days there are going to be all kinds of speculation of what was in the missing emails, and they will run with it as gospel truth like they do with any conspiracy theory that they can come up with to blast republicans.

Ditto. They are going to try and move focus to the emails they cannot access.

Some of the left have been moving off of this though. Such as Andrew Sullivan who has renewed his investigation  into tracking down Trig Palin's real mother. 

[TVDOC]

My point has nothing to do with the legalities of either case. The point is how the conspiracy theorists will run with what is missing rather than with what is there. In both cases they create what they think went on in the missing data. I bet you anything in the next few days there are going to be all kinds of speculation of what was in the missing emails, and they will run with it as gospel truth like they do with any conspiracy theory that they can come up with to blast republicans.

Again perhaps......however, they way this is shaping up, even in CNN reporting, is that it is a witch hunt, that backfired.

There are conspiracy theories about everything public.......hell the DUmmies are still building models of the WTC out of cinder blocks and chicken wire.  Doesn't make them close to credible to the average citizen however.

More important, the farther "out there" the media drives this, the more audience of reasonable voters they will lose (and the more Palin will look like a persecuted martyr)........they know that.  Even the most left-wing of media personalities is aware that pushing a non-story beyond the bounds of credibility hurts THEM, and not the subject.  Example: "Special Keef"

doc