Sarah Palin emails – live coverage

Follow our live blog as the Guardian attempts to identify and collate the most interesting Sarah Palin emails with your help 12.40pm ET / 5.40pm BST: Rachel Weiner, a reporter for the Washington Post, has tweeted a photograph of a stack of boxes in Juneau. Inside these boxes may be Sarah Palin’s email trail. 12.30pm ET / 5.30pm BST: Mother Jones’s David Corn has an excellent piece in today’s Guardian explaining his role in the legal background to the release of Sarah Palin’s emails: As journalists scurried to Alaska and searched for any titbit, I headed to the website for the Alaska state government and discovered the state had a decent open records law. A week after Palin hit the headlines, I sent a request to the governor’s office on behalf of Mother Jones, my magazine, asking for all “emails written by her, emails sent to her, and emails cc-ed to her”. The state had previously released emails from her office in response to narrow requests – though it had withheld a lot of material under questionable justifications. Still, I was not sure that this request, which covered a lot of records, could be processed before the November election. Other media outfits in subsequent weeks submitted related requests for particular emails, such as all of Palin’s emails to and from her husband. But I had been the one to ask for the whole pile. 12.20pm ET / 5.20pm BST: The Guardian is only one of the many media organisations in Juneau today. The Associated Press, New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, Mother Jones and others are in town waiting to get the Palin email dump – and they all have plans to release them to the public in one form or another. 12 noon ET / 5pm BST: So what are we expecting to find in the Sarah Palin email dump? What’s being published are emails from Palin’s term as governor of Alaska: starting in January 2007 through to her resignation in July 2009. Expect lots of detail about internal Alaska state politics, not to mention Palin’s unhappy “Troopergate” affair . There’s also the negotiations over the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, which Palin often mentions as her biggest success as governor. But most interest will initially focus on the period when John McCain nominated her to be his presidential running mate in 2008. But who knows what else is in there? It’s the Alaska gold rush of 2011 : after a tortuous process, thousands of emails from Sarah Palin’s time as Alaskan governor are released publically today – and the hard work of trawling through the 24,000 pages of emails begins. Follow our live blog of the key developments as the Guardian attempts to identify and collate the most interesting emails with your help. Guardian journalists in Juneau, Alaska, will be combing through thousands of Palin emails as fast as they can read. And Ian Katz explains how the Guardian plans to post the entire cache of emails , allowing readers to take part by reading through them: Given the size of the cache, we reckon the collective eyes of thousands of you will find the juicy bits more quickly, so we’ll be publishing the raw mails on our website as quickly as we can and asking you to tell us which ones are interesting and why. They’ll be pretty rough and ready – no headlines or details of what they’re about – but we hope you’ll help us by using our simple system to tag them according to what subjects they cover, and how interesting they are. We’d love it if you’d alert our editors, via a button on each email, or Tweet us at @gdnpalin , about any emails that you think our reporters should be examining. Remember that each numbered document represents a single page, so you have to click to previous and subsequent pages to see a full email. Now, as Ms Palin once exhorted: “Drill, baby, drill!” Stay tuned with our full Palin email coverage on the site – and on Twitter follow the latest developments at our special feed @gdnpalin . And of course we’ll be following all the latest developments from the US media and around the web right here. As always, you can take part by leaving your comments below. I’ll be tweeting at @RichardA . Sarah Palin emails Sarah Palin Alaska US politics United States Republicans Richard Adams guardian.co.uk

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