E-mails from Sanford's affair, more to come soon
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Whoa. Questions that come to mind:
1) HOW did The State get those? They say they obtained these from his "personal e-mail account". Did they hack, was it a govt acct that he designated as personal, FOIA request, etc?
2) WHY did they decide to run these? Other than titillation, voyeurism, etc, WHAT is the relevance?
3) WHY would he write these?
June 24, 2009 6:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
1) HOW did The State get those? They say they obtained these from his "personal e-mail account". Did they hack, was it a govt acct that he designated as personal, FOIA request, etc?
I don't know? Is his personal account on the South Carolina web domain?
2) WHY did they decide to run these? Other than titillation, voyeurism, etc, WHAT is the relevance?
I guess they want to show if this had any impact on his job as governor? I guess the good people of South Carolina expect more of their leadership?
3) WHY would he write these?
Maybe he thought he wouldn't get caught? Maybe he will explain.
June 24, 2009 6:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sounds like you have the same questions, 1849!
June 24, 2009 7:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
An update: the Los Angeles Times is reporting that he along with Ensign encouraged Clinton to resign after his peccadilloes.
June 24, 2009 7:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
ThinkProgress has some of his quotes. I'll grab a link.
June 24, 2009 7:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/24/sanford-affair
June 24, 2009 7:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
When would that have been, before or after the perjury allegation? If after, that's a bit different.
"But back in 1998, according to the Post and Courier, he said of Clinton, “Very damaging stuff. This one’s pretty cut and dried.” Calling the overall situation messy, he added: “I think it would be much better for the country and for him personally [to resign].""
I'm a bit lost on the history details.
"Clinton was impeached on December 19, 1998"
So the calls could have been relative to the alleged perjury not the spot on his sexual record.
"The lawyers for Jones arranged to depose Clinton on January 17, 1998."
"Kenneth Starr ... convened a grand jury and compelled Clinton to testify before it on August 17, 1998. "
June 25, 2009 12:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
Valid question, eds. But, his comments talk about also breaking the oath he made with his wife. Taken together with his post-Vitter comments, Sanford's quotes seem to focus on the extra-marital nature rather than the perjury allegations.
June 25, 2009 12:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have not seen such quotes.
The one included here "messy" suggests to me that the emphasis is on the consequences of the Clinton "not sex" affair, aka the perjury issues. This is of course a fine point of whether Sanford is hypocritical re Clinton if Sanford doesn't resign.
Breaking an oath to one's spouse (actually a vow, usually) is different in law (and politics) from committing perjury and getting caught at it.
June 25, 2009 3:53 PM | Reply | Permalink