utc the entire affair is fairly well documented at the encyclopedia dramatica page found at this com the incident ed is of course by far the most reliable source that has ever been used on wikipedia fact nevertheless they do tend to chronicle anon actions such as this pretty well and they have links to everything that was obtained it would be pretty easy to find out the answer to this question for what it's worth the ed page claims palin was conversing with an aide via email about using the email for gov't business but that would be easily verifiable via the wikileaks page linked to at the bottom of the article october