Subject: [big campaign] Re: FBI Didn't Vet Palin as Rick Davis said
From: David Donnelly <[email-masked]>
To: Eric Schmeltzer <[email-masked]>, 'big campaign' <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:01:20 -0400
List-Id: <bigcampaign.googlegroups.com>

On top of it, I¹m not convinced that the team of lawyers ‹ some have
reported up to 10 ‹ from the McCain campaign have headed to Alaska to simply
³post-vet² her. Color me cynical, but I¹m guessing they¹ll make some people
shut up and will destroy embarrassing docs they find.

On 9/1/08 9:48 PM, "Eric Schmeltzer" <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Hat Tip to Ambinder on this one.  But, in a Sunday Washington Post A1 Balz
> story, Rick Davis said the FBI did a background check on Sarah Palin.
> Ambinder calls the FBI and finds out that they did no such thing, and wouldn¹t
> have anyway.
> http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/palin_and_the_fbi_backgro
> und_c.php
> Maybe Balz got a key detail in a front page story wrong, though that¹s highly
> unlikely.  More likely is that Davis was overcompensating, trying to throw out
> important sounding things to really sell the story that Palin went through the
> meat-grinder, and got caught in a lie.
> But, anyway, all comes back to the question:  Did McCain make this choice with
> a full-vetting, or was it an impulse decision?  And if she did go through a
> vigorous vetting, why would Davis feel the need to sell the non-existent FBI
> vetting to the Post?
> 
> > 
> 

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