Alaska Supreme Court Okays Troopergate Report, Sarah Palin Freaks Out

Shit’s about to hit the fan. Thanks to an Alaska Supreme Court ruling, the report on Sarah Palin’s Troopergate situation will be released sometime today, according to the Anchorage Daily News.
 

Six Republican legislators had brought the case to court in order to block the investigation, claiming it wasn’t “fair and just.” However, the Supreme Court didn’t buy it, and now the world will finally learn what investigator Steve Branchflower discovered about Palin’s dismissal of the public safety commissioner Walt Monegan. The heart of the issue is whether Palin improperly pressured Monegan to fire a state trooper, who just so happened to be Palin’s sister’s ex-husband. Juicy.
 

Today’s report will supposedly shed some much needed light on this scandal. The New York Times gives us a peak into the shady dealings:

Ms. Palin has denied that anyone told Mr. Monegan to dismiss Trooper Wooten, or that the commissioner’s ouster had anything to do with him. But an examination of the case, based on interviews with Mr. Monegan and several top aides, indicates that, to a far greater degree than was previously known, the governor, her husband and her administration pressed the commissioner and his staff to get Trooper Wooten off the force, though without directly ordering it.

In all, the commissioner and his aides were contacted about Trooper Wooten three dozen times over 19 months by the governor, her husband and seven administration officials, interviews and documents show.

“To all of us, it was a campaign to get rid of him as a trooper and, at the very least, to smear the guy and give him a desk job somewhere,” said Kim Peterson, Mr. Monegan’s special assistant, who like several other aides spoke publicly about the matter for the first time.

I must admit the allegations seem plausible. Sarah Palin may not be the smartest tool in the Republican tool shed, but she certainly knows how to spread a good smear campaign.