Fired 'Troopergate' figure accuses Palin of lying

[kpete]

Fired 'Troopergate' figure accuses Palin of lying
Nick Juliano
Published: Monday September 15, 2008

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is lying when she says she did not try to get her brother-in-law fired from the state's police force then sacked the public safety commissioner who would not go along with her planned vendetta, the official at the center of the scandal says.

ABC News, which secured the first televised interview with the Republican vice presidential nominee, reports the accusations Monday:

"She's not telling the truth when she told ABC neither she nor her husband pressured me to fire Trooper Wooten," said Walt Monegan, the Alaskan official whose dismissal by Sarah Palin is the focus of a state investigation known as "Troopergate". "And she's not telling the truth to the media about her reasons for firing me."

In an exclusive interview with ABC News.com, former Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan said he resisted pressure by the First Couple to re-open an old case against a state trooper, who was in a hotly contested divorce and custody battle with the Governor's sister Molly.

Alaskan lawmakers are investigating whether Palin and her husband used the power of the Governor's office to conduct a personal vendetta against their former brother-in-law, whose behavior during the 2005 divorce was described by the Palin family as " threatening."

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Monegan said he tried to persuade the first couple to drop the matter. "As a cop for 35 years I'm pretty familiar with issues that come up in divorce cases," and said his argument to both Todd and Sarah was, "if this was so egregious, why didn't you bring it up sooner? Why did you wait until several years later?"

more at:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Fired_Troopergate_figure_accuses_Palin_of_0915.html

[Waya]

1. No-Choice Palin caught in lies? Say it ain't so.........

[ladjf]

2. His revelations might be allowing the Palins to escape prosecution.

He ought to wait for this information to come out in court.

[vaberella]

4. What information is he releasing that would disallow prosecution?

He's very vague about the issue, he just said she's lieing which many have done in the past. He has made it a point most of the time to say "no comment" and all of his evidence is given to the people in charge of the case and we haven't heard any solid proof of anything. The one thing which was an email quote did not come from him, but from someone else and he has more information to provide to this case. Plus it includes testamonies from parties involved and that's about 13 people, shoot even Palin's husband has been subpoenaed and under pressure we don't know how much he'll crack.

[ladjf]

6. I'm not an attorney. But, in the event of a jury trial, wouldn't that

be prejudicing the jury? (That's the way it is on TV shows.)

[vaberella]

3. I know I shouldn't be. But I love when they quote Monegan.

I'm always so impressed by his word usage. Who uses "egregious", he's seems so intelligent, that I'd love to have a chat with him. And mainly because when I think Alaska, I don't think (keeping in mind it may be my elitist New Yorker make up)the height of vocabulary. I figure Palin says it all really.

This is totally off topic, but it's thew way I think when I read quotes of his, although I find what he says as a whole to say a lot about Palin. What I find crazy is that she's going to take this to it's end, when he has proof.

It would NEVER have been taken this far if he didn't have solid enough information to get a conviction.

[chicagoexpat]

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