By GottaLaff
Ummm...
Sources: Palin to Help Investigation She RequestedNothing she agrees to will help the investigation. Nothing. Try again, IWRC* Sarah.Attorneys for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin met with a special investigator for the Alaska Personnel Board earlier today to broker her cooperation with the panel's own probe of the scandal now known as "Troopergate," according to sources close to the matter.[...]
Lawyers hired by Palin and the McCain-Palin campaign met with Tim Petumenos, an Anchorage lawyer hired by the Personnel Board to investigate the matter, after Palin herself filed a formal complaint to the panel.
Initially, Palin had pledged cooperation with the legislature's investigation. She changed her position after joining the GOP ticket, claiming that probe was politically biased and that the legislature lacked constitutional authority to investigate her. She argued the proper venue was the three-member Personnel Board -- part of the executive branch -- and filed a complaint against herself, saying she "welcomed" its investigation. [See this post for back story: ...By doing this she controls what information is released since the Personnel board is made up of three people appointed by, you guessed it, Palin.]
All three of the board's current members were originally appointed by Alaska's previous governor, Frank Murkowski; one has since been re-appointed by Palin.
Palin's attorneys are expected to make an announcement at a press conference later this afternoon that they have hammered out a "roadmap for cooperation" with Petumenos, including an agreement on what "search terms" to use while sifting through thousands of emails from her government and Yahoo! email accounts for possible evidence.
The Governor's attorneys are also said to be negotiating a plan to turn over paper documents and setting dates for initial interviews with both the Governor and her husband.
Meanwhile, critics say Palin has worked with her allies and the campaign to impede the legislative investigation.
*In What Respect, Charlie?
.jpg)
Posts
10 comments:
I need to look this up: She only appointed one of the 3?
Roadmap to cooperation? Jesus, I'm glad my kids didn't think that one up when they were little. We had only cooperation and noncooperation - too poor to afford roadmaps.
Hey, I think this site could be a big help in exposing Palin for what she is:
http://bitchtonowhere.com
Anon, LOL!! I love the name Bitch to Nowhere. Thanks.
Chris, anything with the word "roadmap" in it now raises suspicions.
Firedoglake as a new and interesting twist to add:
Oh, THAT Kind of Financial Incentive
By: emptywheel Monday 9/22/08
I asked a while back what the TrooperGate investigator, Stephen Branchflower, might have meant when he said a key witness--whom he believes lied to him in an interview--had a "financial incentive" to do so. It appears that Murlene Wilkes, who handles the state's workers comp claims, was pressured by the governor's office to deny a claim from Trooper Wooten.
http://firedoglake.com/
It just gets better and better.
I am a bit weary of as Sarah turns?(rolling eyes)
So "conflict of interest" does not exist as a concept in PalinWorld? "Have my people call my other people, and we'll do lunch, 'kay?"
Other fuzzy concepts:
A bipartisan decision by a majority-Republican committee is "politically biased" against a Republican? Ditto for the bipartisan (3 Republican, 2 Democrat) panel created by that committee? And yet bringing in a gaggle of McCain/Palin campaign operatives to complicate the inquiry is not skewing things politically? Jinkies!
And if the legislature lacks constitutional authority to investigate the governor, why did the citizens of Alaska bother to put in a provision in their state constitution for impeachment? (Article II, section 20: http://ltgov.state.ak.us/constitution.php?section=2 )
Lucy, I too will be glad when Saracudda's 15 minutes of fame are expired.
Investigation for the scandal as known "troopgate" in which Palin has appointed one judge, now she is trying to impede the legislative investigation seems to be politically motivated. The real face of Sarah will unfold as the time passes.
One thing i would like to say that all voters should use their voters right to save America's future.
Use http://www.statedemocracy.org for all your voting facility.
Thanks
This is all so ridiculous.
My speculation is that Gov. Palin could make this entire episode go "poof" simply by re-hiring Walt Monegan. But why do anything the simple -- and right-- way? That seems to be just too difficult for the Campaign of Senator McCain; instead, that Campaign prefers to follow the Bush playbook, which includes delay, delay, delay and ignore duly served subpoenas (violation of the law).
I just do not understand how this race could be so close. I don't believe that half the people of this country are so friggen blind. Do they like what we had the past 7 years? The polls show that they don't, but yet it can't seem to seep into the minds of some people that McCain/Palin will just continue the Bush regime.
Something is really wrong here.
Post a Comment