Roibert Parry: Palin's 'Trooper-gate' Cover-up

[BuyingThyme]

Palin's 'Trooper-gate' Cover-up

By Robert Parry
September 6, 2008

Ripping a page from George W. Bush’s playbook on obstructing investigations, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her senior aides are maneuvering to thwart an abuse-of-power investigation that Palin initially vowed to assist.

Now, rather than cooperate with an independent counsel assigned to examine whether Palin fired the state’s public safety commission because he refused to fire her ex-brother-in-law from the state troopers, Palin, her husband and seven witnesses close to Palin are resisting giving testimony.

Moreover, on Tuesday, just one day before giving her widely acclaimed speech to the Republican National Convention, Palin took the unusual step of filing an ethics complaint against herself – to move the investigation to the state personnel board whose three members are appointed by the governor.

Palin’s decision to, in effect, turn herself in so she could get a hearing before more sympathetic investigators was known by the U.S. news media before Palin’s speech, but was rarely, if ever, mentioned by TV pundits filling hours of air time with chatter about her charisma, her moose hunting and her 17-year-old daughter’s pregnancy.

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/090608.html

(Lots more!)

[MarjorieG]

1. Confused how to get the constant abuse of power/pettiness out there....

She's unfit with the same Bush pettiness, vindictiveness, loyalty over competence, reliance on charm and simplistic solutions and views of the world. An incurious person pushed along by GOPAC, governing by the Contract with America platform, no wonder Newt Gingrich is thrilled.

Their right-wing agenda, thought discredited and on the wane, would be a heartbeat away from a four-time cancer survivor, who won't show a complete look at his medical records. What people did see were many medications, propping up a guy who does an event a day, and not on weekends.

How do we get this information out there.

[BuyingThyme]

2. kcik

[FVZA_Colonel]

3. What the trooper himself did is ultimately irrelevant.

What matters is the clear abuse of power on her part.


The trick will be getting the average voter to look past "TASERED 11-YEAR-OLD!!!"

[Lucinda]

4. They wont. If there IS something found illegal in her conduct, shes toast.

Otherwise it will have no effect. He was just shown in an interview last night, admitted what he did and was supportive of Palin.

[BuyingThyme]

5. kcik