July 6, 2009 8:27 AM

FBI Says There Is No Palin Investigation

By
Kevin Hechtkopf
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Republicans
5132045The FBI has made particular note to say that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who announced her resignation for the end of the month, is not under investigation, the Anchorage Daily News reports.

"We are not investigating her," FBI spokesman Eric Gonzalez told the paper. "Normally we don't confirm or deny those kind of allegations out there, but by not doing so it just casts her in a very bad light. There is just no truth to those rumors out there in the blogosphere."

The unusual step from the FBI comes after Palin's attorney threatened legal action over the weekend to those who "propagate defamatory material" about the former Republican vice presidential nominee.

"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," Thomas Van Flein said in a statement. "This is to 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."

The Anchorage Daily News reports that Moore, who alluded to the investigation during an appearance on MSNBC, fired back at Palin during a press conference on Sunday. She called Palin "a coward and a bully" and that she never claimed the rumors were fact but only pointed out they existed. "Shannyn Moore will not be muzzled," she said.

Palin's attorney Van Flein responded to Moore via the paper: "The Constitution allows anyone to print what they want, but it does not say you can do so with impunity and with a total disassociation from reality ... to be blunt: falsely implying that the governor, or her husband, are under federal investigation, is not free speech."

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by dahizzle July 6, 2009 7:58 PM EDT
The Palin FBI investigation must be top secret. They won't even discuss it.
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by cranialnerves July 6, 2009 7:02 PM EDT
I wish Obama had a vagina. The road would be so much easier.
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by TerryTooo July 6, 2009 5:19 PM EDT
1. It's not like the FBI is required to tell the truth.
2. Doesn't mean that she isn't being investigated by other parties.
3. She will ALWAYS be investigated by someone as long as she is in polictics.
4. She's a liar.
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by Joe_NY_15 July 6, 2009 5:08 PM EDT
by skyk-2009 July 6, 2009 1:00 PM PDT

It looks like you've become a new type of Bigot and racist.....against anyone who happens to live south of the Mason-Dixon line.....BigottedAgainstSoutherns is your new nickname
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by Joe_NY_15 July 6, 2009 5:06 PM EDT
The FBI needs to investigate why she is so freakin hot !
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by mahalapril July 6, 2009 4:49 PM EDT
The democrats,progressive liberal women ,movie stars and singers are idolized even if they are already decadent. I am an atheist but I believe we can still have moral values without religion. The human mind is smart enough to know right from wrong,good from bad, lust/greed from love. These people in democratic large cities are following the movie stars who are drunk drivers,drug abusers, murderers of their own live human babies without second thoughts,materialistic, no respect for parents,teachers and authority . How long can we last with this society. There are no more freedom,honesty,bravery,moral values,respect,duty and country. We are now a nation of cowards bowing to islamic kings and too afraid to confront our enemies who are now mocking our militarily and economically incompetent Obama who is also a pathological liar.Unemployment rate of not more than 8 % if the pork- laden stimulus bills are passed right away according to Obama and now it is 9.5 %, the highest in 26 years. Anybody want more proof?
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by specialty8 July 6, 2009 4:55 PM EDT
yea, go give them some more. They don't go away until they get hit in the face with the truth.
by Sykiks July 6, 2009 9:13 PM EDT
You may be an atheist, but you are also an idiot. Besides the things you write make you sound much more like a fundie fanatic trying to hide. Morality is a system of control through guilt...."You're gonna go to hell if you do that." "God is watching you." Morality can be twisted to serve whatever religion you subscribe to....and it is always twisted. Ethics....if you have ethics....then you are doing things because it is the RIGHT thing to do....not because you are scared of hell or a lightning bolt. You don't screw your neighbor's wife because it is not a good thing to do and it causes all kinds of problems. You don't lie and steal because it's counter-productive for yourself and for society. You don't help a little old lady across the street because you think it will get you brownie points for getting into heaven....you do it because she needs help and it's the right thing to do. Give me an ethical man any day over a moral one.
Republicans are just as guilty if not more so for drinking, drugging, and whoring....usually more so because they are ranting against it and pointing fingers while doing it. And as far as the unemployment rate....we started down that hill long before Obama was elected and as anyone that has driven a car should know if a car is speeding down a hill it won't always stop where you want it to when you put on the brakes. The Bush administration started it rolling down the hill and jumped out. Thank goodness this administration is at least trying to stop it.
by specialty8 July 6, 2009 4:49 PM EDT
Poor ole Sky is just ate up with this women. More so than the backside of Obungler.
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by mickeybr July 6, 2009 4:26 PM EDT
Just suck it up and take it, Sarah. You're already a quitter. It just makes matters worse if you go around threatening to sue everyone who's hurt your feelings.
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by culturechang July 6, 2009 3:16 PM EDT
She did not own a massage parlor. The FBI's top priority is anything sex.
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by prelgovisk July 6, 2009 1:02 PM EDT
Famous people are fair game...but printing outright lies that are designed to cause real financial and career crippling harm to a person should be illegal.

If Palin is as bad as the critic say, then the truth should be sufficient to derail any ambitions she might have. Why not just stick with the truth?

If her critics need to invent lies to accomplish their goals, and lied they have, then we wonder what other things have they lied about?

Lying reveals a hidden agenda. By lying about Palin, major media outlets have narrowed their news coverage to force forward an agenda. They no longer are media outlets, but enforcers of the political party in power.
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