Sarah Palin has failed in her efforts to block the Alaska legislature's ongoing abuse-of-power investigation into her firing of the state's public safety commissioner because he did not respond to her and her family's pressure to fire her ex brother-in-law, a state trooper. Nor has she successfully prevented seven state employees from responding to subpoenas), despite a big assist from a Focus on the Family-affiliated legal foundation, who were most likely called up by the McCain campaign people, who are effectively governing Alaska now. She's also, in a particularly Cheneyesque twist, refusing to turn over a huge number of emails to the independent investigator, whose legitimacy she disputes.
See, she'd rather have the state Personnel Board handle the investigation, secretly. She can fire them all if she wants, but she can't get rid of the legislature or the courts.
So what to do when you've failed to stop the independent investigation, your seven aides have flipped after a judge denied their challenges to their subpoenas, and the investigator's report is due out Friday?
Why, put out your own report (written by the McCain campaign operatives to whom you've abdicated your executive responsibilities) clearing yourself of any wrongdoing, of course!
For some really great, though really long, analysis of the issues behind Troopergate, and why it all matters even if Mike Wooten is the scum of the earth, see Teresa Nielsen Hayden. Or poke around at Mudflats or at the Anchorage Daily News's site.
All of this secrecy and abuse of power and personal-vendetta-driven governance (or reward; let us not forget that she rewarded many of her schoolmates with high-level state jobs for which they were not adequately qualified, including putting one friend in charge of agriculture based on her childhood love of cows) is a good indication of how she might govern if she became president through McCain's death in office.
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