By GottaLaff
ABC News has an exclusive:
An internal government document obtained by ABC News appears to contradict Sarah Palin's most recent explanation for why she fired her public safety chief, the move which prompted the now-contested state probe into "Troopergate."
There have been so many contradictions. Anyone out there keeping track?
Fighting back against allegations she may have fired her then-Public Safety Commissioner, Walt Monegan, for refusing to go along with a personal vendetta, Palin on Monday argued in a legal filing that she fired Monegan because he had a "rogue mentality" and was bucking her administration's directives.
Wowzers! A rogue cop! He must have done something terrible! I'm afraid to even imagine...
"The last straw," her lawyer argued, came when he planned a trip to Washington, D.C., to seek federal funds for an aggressive anti-sexual-violence program. The project, expected to cost from $10 million to $20 million a year for five years, would have been the first of its kind in Alaska, which leads the nation in reported forcible rape.
Good lord! He... he... wanted to help prevent rape?! In a state that leads the nation in... forcible rape!? What kind of beast is this Walt dude? Who would do such a thing?! Why... why... that's almost as bad as a governor who won't cover the costs of rape victims' medical tests!
The McCain-Palin campaign echoed the charge in a press release it distributed Monday, concurrent with Palin's legal filing. "Mr. Monegan persisted in planning to make the unauthorized lobbying trip to D.C.," the release stated.
So Gramm-pa McCain is on the attack, too, huh? Good for him! Nobody should be allowed to spend so much as a company dime on something as frivolous as rape prevention! Especially without permission! ... I'm sorry, hang on... What's that?... I can barely hear... It's coming in more clearly now, and... okay... This just in!
But the governor's staff authorized the trip, according to an internal travel document from the Department of Public Safety, released Friday in response to an open records request. The document, a state travel authorization form, shows that Palin's chief of staff, Mike Nizich, approved Monegan's trip to Washington D.C. "to attend meeting with Senator Murkowski." The date next to Nizich's signature reads June 18.Well, now, that's a moose of a different color.
Monegan said he didn't know why Palin's chief of staff approved a trip that confounded her other aides. "It sounds like it's a breakdown of communication internal to the governor's staff," he said.It sounds like a breakdown of Palin's entire premise. This just in: Palin/McCain have lost all credibility... and that's assuming they had any to begin with.
H/t: JohnnyAppleseed at DKos.
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