From the date stamp, this was only a couple of weeks ago. Gosh they are morons.

This is hilarious.

http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=2025

Zina Saunders’ latest political illustration: Palin Roulette

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Would this still be true if the crime stemmed from a corrupt municipal contract while she was mayor? If there was a direct rake-off of material and possibly labor from a contract for a hockey rink/community center signed by the mayor that went directly into building the mayor’s new house you have a lot tighter quid pro quo and theft of public goods than you had in the Stevens case where the linkages were longer standing and more indirect.

You guys have the lawyers on staff and I am just a commenter out here but I don’t see how being Governor gives her any protection when defending acts committed as mayor. If anything stepping down might serve to keep the Feds from moving too aggressively in the direction of potential acts committed as Governor.

McCain Adviser, Rick Davis, told the Washington Post at the end of August, 2008, that Palin had been fully vetted, including, he claimed, a background check by the FBI. Days later it was revealed, not by Davis or McCain, but by the FBI, that Davis had in fact, lied.

http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/6123

Palin And The FBI Background Check — Updated

http://marcambinder.theatlanti…..ound_c.php

01 Sep 2008 01:52 pm
The Federal Bureau of Investigation did not participate in the vetting of Gov. Sarah Palin and did not conduct a background check as part of the process, an FBI spokesman said today.

The Washington Post reported Sunday, citing an interview with campaign manager Rick Davis, that the vetting process “included reviews of financial and other personal data, an FBI background check and considerable discussion among the handful of McCain advisers nvolved in the deliberations.

“In general, we do not do vetting for political campaigns except as it might regard investigations needed for security clearances,” said John Miller, the chief FBI spokesperson.

The FBI did not participate in a vet, nor did it run a background check of Gov. Palin as part of the process.

Palin might already have a clearance that relates to her duties as governor. But the FBI can’t speak to that, and in any event, those investigations wouldn’t be accessible to the McCain campaign anyway.

No Surprises From Palin, McCain Team Says

Daughter’s Pregnancy and Trooper Controversy Were Revealed Before Pick, According to Campaign Aide

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..00710.html

Until last week, Palin was relatively unknown outside Alaska, and as facts have dribbled out about her, the McCain campaign has insisted that its examination of her background was thorough and that nothing that has come out about her was a surprise. ”John had access to all that information and made the decision,” campaign manager Rick Davis said last week in describing the vetting process.

The process included what aides described as a full search of public documents and videos of her speeches. That included a review of Alaska newspapers, but not Palin’s local newspaper because aides worried that going through back issues would indicate that she was under consideration to be McCain’s running mate.

Among the things that turned up during the vetting process: her husband’s arrest for driving under the influence more than two decades ago; the ticket that she once received for fishing without a license; her daughter’s pregnancy; and a report that she had supported Pat Buchanan for president in 1996, which she denied at the time.
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Her name, along with others, was submitted to the FBI under a routine inquiry into whether she was the subject of a criminal investigation.

Palin Made an Impression From the Start

Fellow Maverick Survived McCain’s Thorough Vetting Process, Aides Say

By Dan Balz and Robert Barnes
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, August 31, 2008

Rick Davis, McCain’s campaign manager and the person at the point of the vice presidential process, said there was no abrupt change of course in the final hours. Nor, he said, was Palin selected without having gone through the full vetting process that was done for other finalists. That process included reviews of financial and other personal data, an FBI background check and considerable discussion among the handful of McCain advisers involved in the deliberations.

“Nobody was vetted less or more than anyone in the final stages, and John had access to all that information and made the decision,” Davis said. “It’s really not much more complicated than that.”

New York Times – Published: September 1, 2008

Mr. McCain’s advisers said repeatedly on Monday that Ms. Palin was “thoroughly vetted,” a process that would have included a review of all financial and legal records as well as a criminal background check. A McCain aide said the campaign was well aware of the ethics investigation and had looked into it.

“It was obviously something that anybody Googling Sarah Palin knew was in the news and there was a very thorough vetting done on that and also on the daughter,” the aide said.

People familiar with the process said Ms. Palin had responded to a standard form with more than 70 questions. Although The Washington Post quoted advisers to Mr. McCain on Sunday as saying Ms. Palin had been subjected to an F.B.I. background check, an F.B.I. official said Monday the bureau did not vet potential candidates and had not known of her selection until it was made public.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09……html?_r=1

Go Bachmann/Palin in 2012!