[Vision2020] The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin XIII: Accessing Wooten's Medical Records

[Saundra Lund]

The Atlantic

The Daily Dish

Andrew Sullivan

19 Oct 2008 04:03 pm

 

The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin XIII: Accessing Wooten's Medical Records

 

>From the Public
<http://www.pubrecord.org/component/content/337.html?task=view>  Record:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has denied claims that she and several of her senior
staffers illegally accessed the personnel file of her ex-brother-in-law,
Trooper Mike Wooten, and disseminated confidential information about the law
enforcement official to his superiors.

Palin, Sen. John McCain's running mate, her private attorney Thomas Van
Flein, and McCain campaign officials, said the confidential medical and
employment records became part of the public record during divorce
proceedings between Wooten and Palin's sister, Molly McCann...

But that assertion is untrue. 

In fact, the judge who presided over the divorce proceedings and the custody
hearings that took place over the course of three years never saw Wooten's
records because the trooper entered into a settlement agreement with his
ex-wife over custody of their young children before the confidential
information was discussed in court, according to Palin's sister's attorney,
Roberta Erwin.

 

Read the whole thing. Palin clearly stepped over the usual ethical and legal
limits to access Mike Wooten's personal medical files and disseminated the
information to smear her ex brother-in-law. Todd Palin was deeply involved
as well.

Palin's other publicly documented lies can be read here
<http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/the-twelve-lie
s.html> .

 

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/the-odd-lies-21
.html

 

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