Disclosures on Palin Raise Questions on Vetting Process

New York Times by Elisabeth Bumiller | Sep. 2, 2008 (News Report)

Aides to Mr. McCain said they had a team on the ground in Alaska now to look more thoroughly into Ms. Palin's background. A Republican with ties to the campaign said the team assigned to vet Ms. Palin in Alaska had not arrived there until Thursday, a day before Mr. McCain stunned the political world with his vice-presidential choice. The campaign was still calling Republican operatives as late as Sunday night asking them to go to Alaska to deal with the ... Full Story »

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 by Roland F. Hirsch - Sep. 2, 2008

This opinion piece has no journalistic value. It is full of inaccuracies. Gov Palin was never a member of the Alaska Independence Party. The team sent by the campaign to Alaska is not to "vet" her but to protect against the smears against the candidate. If Alaskan "officials" did not know she was being considered they did not read any newspapers of polls for the last three month, as she was running first or second in every poll of VP preferences. And a 20-year old drunk-driving charge against her husband! The National Enquirer does a better job of checking out its stories than the Times.

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