FBI: Claims of Palin investigation ‘just not true’
Published: July 5, 2009
Updated 4 months ago
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is not under investigation by the FBI, the federal agency’s Alaska spokesperson has said.
“There is absolutely no truth to those rumors that we’re investigating her or getting ready to indict her,” Special Agent Eric Gonzalez told the Los Angeles Times Saturday. “It’s just not true.”
On Saturday, Palin’s lawyers came out fighting against allegations that her resignation was prompted by a brewing scandal. On Friday, bloggers including Shannyn Moore and Brad Friedman suggested that Palin is under federal investigation over her activities in the development of the Wasilla Sports Complex, a multi-million dollar facility in Palin’s home town built while she was mayor of the town.
“To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as ‘fact’ that Governor Palin resigned because she is ‘under federal investigation’ for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation,” Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein said in a statement.
“Sources close to Palin consider the letter a warning shot” to large news organizations “to stay away from the topic,” writes Jonathan Martin at Politico. “Still, the decision to issue a public statement reciting all the facts in the case now all but ensures that there will be mainstream media accounts of the situation.”
Palin held a hastily called press conference Friday to say she was stepping down. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee told Fox’s Chris Wallace on Sunday that Palin’s press conference had created more questions than it answered.
“You don’t call a press conference that creates questions. You call one to resolve them,” said Huckabee.
Karl Rove also questioned the Palin strategy — though he, like everyone else, could only speculate as to what the strategy’s goals may be.
“If she wanted to escape the ethics investigations and save the taxpayers’ money, she’s done that,” Rove said. But “it sort of sends the signal that if you do something like this to a sitting governor, you can drive them out of office.”
“She’s not going to be able to escape media attention,” Rove added. “If she thinks somehow she’s going to be able to protect her family … and seek a role of leadership for effective change for our country, she’s not going to be able to do it.”
This video is from Fox’s Fox News Sunday, broadcast July 5, 2009.
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Could we have STATE CRIMINAL charges pending?
we can only hope and pray. i am willing to do just about anything to get her ass (and her husbands) thrown in jail where they belong.
looks like its another trip to the feed store. live chickens are still cheap. time to break out the gris-gris and tophat and wait for midnight again.
Why is it when I call the FBI or Texas ethics commission or the Harris County DAs office I always get “I cannot confirm or deny….”
That’s not what the voices in her head tell her…
Well what would you expect from the FBI, the CIA, the NSA or any of the super secret agencies with unlimited funds and limited imagination?
PDQ?
So what EXACTLY are you prepared to do, Trooper? She is no abortionist.
Better a harmless, eccentric, retired beauty queen than a victimized and martyred defendant.
don’t believe them.
Just because the FBI may not be investigating the Palin brood, it doesn’t mean they aren’t being investigated by another law enforcement or regulatory agency. It all depends on the type of alleged crime that is being investigated.
Her actions don’t pass the smell test. Something improper has happened. Prominent members of her own party are baffled.
Well, she could be pregnant or she may have reconstructive surgery planned to enhance her image. Let’s ask Todd.
And for the Threats of slander and lawsuits being thrown out to the media so fast after her announcement, tells me that their is something she is hiding and hiding big time. For a politician to try to sue and intimidate THE MEDIA of all organizations so quickly, is a sign of very much smoke and a fire. You don’t quit half-way in your first term as a governor if you are thinking about running for president. Even her own GOP people are questioning that, what is she going to do when they ask her about her experience, say that she quits two years and change in office. I’ve noticed one thing about this woman, and that is she tries to fight every battle that comes to her doorstep. You have to pick your battles, and when she decided to fight with david letterman she painted herself as the “the woman that will cry rape when it didn’t happen” over the Bristol (which she knew he was talking about).
I will say now, that I believe that something big is going to come crashing down and when it does it will make her not only eat crow but eat a whole flock. She’s been painting herself as a religious family value’s person, when in reality she is a fraud and a con woman who is using her whole family as a way to fight her losing battles. She’s going to be humbled and it won’t be nice.
FAILIN’ PALIN’S BAILIN’…AGAIN! Palin has been attending all of those Republickin Governors convention that S.C. Governor Stanford has been the chairman of. Hmm. Do you suppose that she has been, “Walking the old Appalachian trail” with Mark Sanford? Sanford has admitted to “Crossing the Line” with other women even while he was taking trips to Buenos Aires to,” Walk the Appalachian trail” with his Latina trail walker down there. Inquiring minds want to know: Was Sarah “walking the Appalachian trail” with the Old Line Crosser, while they were attending those Governors conferences? Hmmm Sarah should get her tubes tied if she is going to be doing a lot of trail walking for her bid for POTUS in 2012.
ummm…the FBI doesn’t indict. The DOJ brings the indictments.
Is this the FBI that let the saudis fly into buildings when they received info from flight schools? I’ll believe BradBlog, thank you much….
Spot on norquistnemesis, spot on. It’s the DOJ that brings the indictments, and besides why would the FBI say or not say their is an investigation of her. I mean if it was that simple, then the mob could just go to the New York office and ask are you investigating this person and they would tell the truth. What a crock, the FBI would just say no comment or not say anything at all as some bloggers have posted that they aren’t commenting. Also I never thought about the Stanford connection Attila. She could be one of the ones he “Went hiking on the trail” with. If that’s so, then it will be to much to much.
Maybe they went to prey (sic) together. They are both like-minded in their faith, afterall.
Hooooboy! Wouldn’t that just rock the Republican political establishment into eternal hell if anything close to that happened? ROFL!
Dennycrane.
This is the very same FBI that continues to hold the video security tapes of the airliner flying into the Pentagon in a super secret place.
GOP (played by Hilter) Finds Out Sarah Palin Quits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IzNPEGWNos
Hilarious..sue for this, pageant princess
Can just any old FBI special agent speak for the entire FBI and claim that that there is no ongoing investigation? Is this guy an authorized spokesperson for the FBI? And even if the FBI is not the agency that’s investigating the Palins, that does not preclude the DOJ or the IRS. I can think of no other time in my lifetime that a politician who suddenly resigns from office didn’t do so because they suddenly found themselves in serious trouble of one sort or another.
And Palin has yet to state precisely WHY she suddenly decided to quit her job now instead of responsibly finishing her term and then stating her intention to not run for re-election. It is her sudden and uncharacteristic behavior that makes this all the more suspicious.
Personally, I think a whole lot of Palin supporters are going to end up with a lot of egg on their collective faces when this is all said and done.
They won’t show the security tapes from that plane that crashed into the pentagon, I wonder why. They show all the others, but not that one. Also why was the 4th plane debris scattered over 4 miles when it crashed headlong into the ground.
I agree with the posters upstairs. This doesn’t pass the smell test.
Why is my comment ‘awaiting moderation” c’mon RAW that doesn’t make sense!
I think Palin was “walking the Appalachain trail” with Mark Sanford. Think about it. Sanford admits to “Crossing the line” with others than his Latina trail hiker in Buenos Aires. Sanford was the chairman of the Republickin Governors Association of which Palin never missed an expense paid meeting. At least she wasn’t “hiking the trail” in public bathrooms with strangers, or” Hiking the Appalachian trail” with prostitutes and drugs. We all know that line crossing is a Republickin-Christian value so what the Hell. I just hope she gets her tubes tied if she is going to be “Hiking the trail” a lot in her bid for the 2012 Presidential run.
Ok no investigation of Caribou Barbie……but wait! what about the “first dude?”
Sure, and Santa Claus really does exist … LMAO!
The Wasilly Hillbilly’s actions show her resignation was more than her fear of being a ‘lame duck’ … I think she fears being a ‘jailed duck’.
One question back to the FBI: Why NOT?