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July 5, 2009
"It's just not true"
Topics: Political News and commentariesIn regard to those rumors of a pending investigation of a looming controversy after Sarah Palin's surprise announcement Friday that she will leave office this month - the L.A. Times reports that Secial Agent Eric Gonzalez said in a phone interview Saturday: "It's just not true."
Reporting from Washington -- A day after Alaska Gov. Sarah 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.Meanwhile, the Anchorage Daily News reports Sarah Palin's personal attorney has issued a statement "denouncing rumors that Palin resigned because she is under criminal investigation and threatening legal action for publishing 'defamatory' material about the governor." The attorney specifically provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law.Despite rumors of a looming controversy after the Republican governor's surprise announcement Friday that she would 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." He added that there was "no wiggle room" in his comments for any kind of inquiry.
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HT - Dan Riehl and Patterico's Pontifications.
Posted by Richard at July 5, 2009 8:09 AM
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