Troopergate II: The Reckoning
| Tue Oct. 14, 2008 8:28 AM PDT
TROOPERGATE II: THE RECKONING....After earlier promising to cooperate fully with the Alaska legislature's probe of Troopergate (because she had "nothing to hide," natch), Sarah Palin pulled a 180 after her vice presidential nomination and denounced the probe as an obvious partisan witch hunt. Instead, she wanted the state personnel board to investigate. So how's that working out? Michael Isikoff reports:
Some Democrats ridiculed the move, noting that the personnel board answered to Palin. But the board ended up hiring an aggressive Anchorage trial lawyer, Timothy Petumenos, as an independent counsel. McCain aides were chagrined to discover that Petumenos was a Democrat who had contributed to Palin's 2006 opponent for governor, Tony Knowles. Palin is now scheduled to be questioned next week, and the counsel's report could be released soon after. "We took a gamble when we went to the personnel board," said a McCain aide who asked not to be identified discussing strategy. While the McCain camp still insists Palin "has nothing to hide," it acknowledges a critical finding by Petumenos would be even harder to dismiss.
I'm sure Scooter Libby sympathizes. I'll bet he didn't expect Patrick Fitzgerald to conduct a real investigation either. Stay tuned.
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Submitted by Howard (not verified) on Tue Oct. 14, 2008 9:56 AM PDT.
So when does the Alaska state legislature begin impeachment proceedings? Wouldn't that be the next step? Or did the "partisan witchhunt" response against the investigating panel of 9 Republicans and 3 Democrats actually work?
Troopergate compared to "Watergate", you gotta be kiddin me! As far as Scooter, he went down for his boss-Plame's husband was investigating Haliburton that's almost as bad as "Preaching against the War" and McCain_Feingold and the IRS put a stop on that!
Kevin, how would you be this flippant if a partisan Republican supporter was, in the middle of an election campaign, appointed to investigate Obama's various dalliances with corruption? His sweet mortgage from the mob-connected bank followed by legislative favors? His million-dollar earmark to his wife's hospital followed by her 200% pay rise? His money laundering operation with Rezko?
No, I don't think you would.
