Alaska investigates apparent gap in Palin emails

Messages from the ex-governor's first month in office appear to be missing from last week's 24,199-page release

Published June 14, 2011 7:51PM (EDT)

FILE - In this May 31, 2011 file photo, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin walks to the door of Trump Tower for a scheduled meeting with Donald Trump in New York. Thousands of Palin's emails from her first two years as governor are being released by the state of Alaska, a disclosure that has taken on national prominence as she flirts with a run for the presidency.  (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File) (AP)
FILE - In this May 31, 2011 file photo, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin walks to the door of Trump Tower for a scheduled meeting with Donald Trump in New York. Thousands of Palin's emails from her first two years as governor are being released by the state of Alaska, a disclosure that has taken on national prominence as she flirts with a run for the presidency. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File) (AP)

Alaska officials are investigating an apparent gap in last week's release of former Gov. Sarah Palin's emails.

The state released 24,199 pages covering Dec. 4, 2006, when Palin took office, until September 2008, or a few weeks after Republican presidential candidate John McCain tapped her to be his running mate.

However, there are very few emails from her first month in office, as first reported by the Anchorage Daily News.

In fact, the first email generated from Palin's Yahoo account appears Jan. 2, 2007. Another from an unidentified account just days earlier was included in an email chain between aides.

Linda Perez, the administrative office for Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell, said Tuesday she has asked information technology services to investigate and had no timetable for an answer.


By Mark Thiessen

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