{"id":7288,"date":"2009-07-07T14:45:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T21:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7288"},"modified":"2009-07-07T15:49:35","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T22:49:35","slug":"village-voice-palin-attorney-swings-and-misses-on-housegate-scandal-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7288","title":{"rendered":"Village Voice: Palin Attorney Swings and Misses on ‘HouseGate’ Scandal Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wayne Barret, the Village Voice<\/i> reporter who wrote the original investigative report<\/a> on questions surrounding the contracting of Sarah Palin’s house on Lake Lucille and the concurrently contracted Wasilla Sports Complex, responds to the weekend legal threats<\/a> issued by Palin’s attorney Thomas Van Flein…<\/p>\n

Sarah Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein spent his July 4 in Fairbanks, Alaska, issuing a four-page statement<\/a> warning news organizations not to investigate allegations printed by the Voice last October.<\/p>\n

Talk about waving a red flag in front of a bull.<\/p>\n

Van Flein’s famous client had announced her upcoming resignation as Alaska’s governor the day before, and the attorney wanted everyone to know that Palin’s sudden and unexpected withdrawal had nothing to do with our story, ‘The Book of Sarah’<\/a> [October 7, 2008] which, of course, made many<\/a> wonder<\/a> just<\/a> the<\/a> opposite<\/a>.<\/div>\n

Barret goes on to offer point-by-point rebuttal<\/a> to Van Flein’s legal jujitsu, which the Voice<\/i> reporter says, “does not challenge a single fact actually presented in our story”…<\/p>\n

Recently related at The BRAD BLOG…<\/i>
\n• 7\/3\/09<\/b>: Is Palin’s Resignation Due to a Federal Investigation?<\/a>
\n• 7\/4\/09<\/b>: Palin Responds, Takes Offensive, Issues Legal Threats<\/a>
\n• 7\/5\/09<\/b>: AK Bloggers Push Back, Scoff at Outgoing Gov’s Threats<\/a>
\n• 7\/6\/09<\/b>: Fox Discusses ‘HouseGate’; Will Palin Sue Them?<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wayne Barret, the Village Voice reporter who wrote the original investigative report on questions surrounding the contracting of Sarah Palin’s house on Lake Lucille and the concurrently contracted Wasilla Sports Complex, responds to the weekend legal threats issued by Palin’s attorney Thomas Van Flein… Sarah Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein spent his July 4 in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,176,388],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska","category-journalist-intimidation","category-sarah-palin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7288"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}