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Sarah Palin not under FBI investigation, agency spokesman says
L A Times ^ | July 5, 2009 | Josh Meyer

Posted on 07/04/2009 10:03:17 PM PDT by MestaMachine

Reporting from Washington -- A day after Alaska Gov. Sara Palin resigned, a federal official in her home state dismissed one potential explanation for her sudden and unexpected resignation -- a rumored FBI investigation into the former Wasilla mayor on public corruption charges.

Despite rumors of a looming controversy after Palin's surprise announcement Friday that she will leave office this month, some of them published in the blogosphere, the FBI's Alaska spokesman said the bureau had no investigation into Palin for her activities as governor, as mayor or in any other capacity.

"There is absolutely no truth to those rumors, that we're investigating her or getting ready to indict her," Special Agent Eric Gonzalez said in a phone interview Saturday. "It's just not true."

Gonzalez added that there was "no wiggle room" in his comments that could exclude any kind of probe.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: andreamitchell; defamation; fbi; gopimplosion; leftynuts; msm; palin; pravdamedia; quitter; rumors; sarah; sarahbarraquitta; sarahpalin; smearcampaign; stalinisttactics; yellowjournalism
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Sarah said: (And I wholeheartedly agree.)

"How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it's about country. And though it's honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make."

1 posted on 07/04/2009 10:03:17 PM PDT by MestaMachine
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To: MestaMachine

Sad night for the losers. And by losers I mean basically everyone in DC and all of the media. They seemed to be hoping for a big scandal here.


2 posted on 07/04/2009 10:09:26 PM PDT by redk
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To: MestaMachine

I hope those who are maligning Sarah Palin are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Enough is enough. Sarah is 100% justtified to pursue them legally and may her attorneys be relentless in pursuit of those who falsely accuse her.


3 posted on 07/04/2009 10:11:01 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: Polarik; PhilDragoo; Niteflyr; Red Steel

Lock and Load!!!


4 posted on 07/04/2009 10:13:11 PM PDT by MestaMachine (Evil exists, but cannot act without willing participants. Obama participates.)
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To: redk

Did you find it obscene, (as I did,) that not one single “pundit,” conservative or otherwise, actually understood what We the People grasped immediately? Sarah is OURS, NOT THEIRS!!!!


5 posted on 07/04/2009 10:15:46 PM PDT by MestaMachine (Evil exists, but cannot act without willing participants. Obama participates.)
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To: MestaMachine
Did you find it obscene, (as I did,) that not one single “pundit,” conservative or otherwise, actually understood what We the People grasped immediately? Sarah is OURS, NOT THEIRS!!!!

Yes, on both counts!

6 posted on 07/04/2009 10:17:11 PM PDT by madison10
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To: MestaMachine

I just hate all of them at this point. They can all go to hell. The only “conservatives” I heard came on fox to speculate that something bad must be coming.

And it must, I mean for her to resign and not hold a cocktail party and tell them first it must be something bad right?


7 posted on 07/04/2009 10:19:33 PM PDT by redk
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To: madison10

I sat and watched the critters on FoxNews make their remarks about Palin and could not believe what I was hearing. These people have absolutely no connection to the real world. Even those whom I had a modicum of respect for, Charles Krauthammer in particular, were so narrowly tuned the Beltway, all their pronouncements were not even relevant to how we see Sarah Palin at all. Not even a little bit.
Ah, but THEN, watching Bulls and Bears this morning, I watched the money guys cheering her on. They seem to believe that just her announcement will be good for the market. Fancy that....HOPE....from Wall Street.


8 posted on 07/04/2009 10:30:49 PM PDT by MestaMachine (Evil exists, but cannot act without willing participants. Obama participates.)
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To: MamaDearest

I hope those who are maligning Sarah Palin are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Enough is enough. Sarah is 100% justtified to pursue them legally and may her attorneys be relentless in pursuit of those who falsely accuse her.
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I agree and they can start with Huffington, Kos and Democratic Underground who continue to lie and falsely accuse her. Celebrities sue and win for tabloids, etc. doing this sh*t, time for Sarah to make them pay for their lies.


9 posted on 07/04/2009 10:40:34 PM PDT by mojitojoe (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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I’d love to see her start with the two DNC heffers in Alaska, the ones who’ve filed all the bogus ethics charges against her.

The DNC has no use for those two anymore and will do nothing to protect them and I hope Palin take them for everything possible. Those two will roll over so fast on their “sponsors” - get out your popcorn.

They cost her 500k, they tried to ruin her financially - it’s time conservatives stopped playing nice. I pray she starts with those two and move right on down the line.

Sarah has my full support.


10 posted on 07/04/2009 10:49:25 PM PDT by Brytani (DC Freeper Convention and National Tea Party - FreepMail Me for rooms and convention info!)
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To: mojitojoe

I looked at HuffPo for the very first time today because someone on another thread pointed to an article there. I had to take a shower when I was finished. And I am not going back.


11 posted on 07/04/2009 10:49:26 PM PDT by MestaMachine (Evil exists, but cannot act without willing participants. Obama participates.)
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To: MestaMachine
Despite rumors of a looming controversy after Palin's surprise announcement Friday that she will leave office this month, some of them published in the blogosphere

Gotta love the L.A.Times. Nice to see them upholding their "journalistic standards" by running a story based on the trustworthy source known as the blogosphere.

I guess when you go dumpster diving, for nearly a year, and still cannot come up with any dirt on her you go to the next best thing. The blogosphere. How professional.

12 posted on 07/04/2009 10:52:08 PM PDT by Nasher
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Wasn’t it the DailyKos that started the vicious rumor that Trig was actually Sarah’s daughters baby after Todd got her pregnant?

These people deserve everything that’s coming to them, an so much more.


13 posted on 07/04/2009 10:53:08 PM PDT by Brytani (DC Freeper Convention and National Tea Party - FreepMail Me for rooms and convention info!)
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To: MestaMachine
Sorry LA Slimes,Sarah gets the last laugh.


14 posted on 07/04/2009 10:57:21 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Nasher

Yeah, it was a surprise that they got out front there with the FBI refutation of this rumor, but when I checked, they seemed to be the only ones who had actually bothered to verify the story.
Shocking, I know.


15 posted on 07/04/2009 11:03:13 PM PDT by MestaMachine (Evil exists, but cannot act without willing participants. Obama participates.)
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To: MestaMachine

Bill Kristol was supportive of Palin a bit.. thought it could be very smart move..


16 posted on 07/04/2009 11:08:04 PM PDT by outlawjake
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To: MestaMachine

Yeah, it was a surprise that they got out front there with the FBI refutation of this rumor, but when I checked, they seemed to be the only ones who had actually bothered to verify the story.
Shocking, I know.


Yes shocking. And schocking and disappointing was the FOX coverage of the whole thing.


17 posted on 07/04/2009 11:19:47 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait till it is free! "~ PJ O'Rourke)
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To: Abbeville Conservative; sleepwalker; Roses0508; feedback doctor; LibLieSlayer; ...
Ping!

The rumor mongering, hatefilled demotrolls looking like the idiots they are.

Of course there is nothing to this "scandal". There never was anything to all the other fabricated "scandals" as well. The lefty hate machine of personal distraction just got some rocks in it's gears.

18 posted on 07/04/2009 11:23:43 PM PDT by SolidWood (Palin isn't retreating, but taking the fight in another direction.)
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To: mojitojoe
I agree and they can start with Huffington, Kos and Democratic Underground who continue to lie and falsely accuse her.

Absolutely. They've also gone after baby Trig. It takes a real sleazeball to attack this child and his mother, and ALL mothers of babies like Trig across this nation. These people have no morals, scruples or sense of common decency.

Time for the piper to be paid IMHO and as much as I'm anti-attorney, those maliciously making false and despicable accusations about Sarah Palin and her family deserve to meet Sarah's attorneys and present their accusations in a court of law so everyone in the nation can see the Huffington, Kos, DU and MSM Palin-hatemonger maggots squirm.

19 posted on 07/04/2009 11:27:43 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: MamaDearest

I agree wholeheartedly! However, I hear from good authority that an incumbent public official - in Alaska, at least - cannot sue for defamation of character, nor can they sue retroactively after leaving office. I’m not guaranteeing the accuracy of this, but I believe the source is good.


20 posted on 07/04/2009 11:32:51 PM PDT by ArmyTeach ( Impossible is nothing ...Adnan Barqawi)
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