Sarah Palin's Troopergate investigation has been fast tracked by 3 weeks due to bullying and delay tactics by the Palin administration.
The results of the investigation were originally scheduled for release Oct. 31 but will now come almost three weeks earlier, according to sources.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/...
The story shows that the Palins have been trying to delay the investigation findings, and in response, the lead investigator has moved up the findings by 3 weeks. The lead investigator also says the findings are damaging for Sarah Palin.
ABC News has exclusively learned that Alaska Senator Hollis French will announce today that he is moving up the release date of his investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her office to get the Alaska public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, fired. The results of the investigation were originally scheduled for release Oct. 31 but will now come almost three weeks earlier, according to sources.
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The Alaska state senator running an investigation of Gov. Palin had accused the McCain campaign of using stall tactics to prevent him from releasing his final report by Oct. 31, four days before the November election.
"It's likely to be damaging to the Governor's administration," said Senator Hollis French, a Democrat, appointed the project manager for a bi-partisan State Senate Legislative Counsel Committee investigation.
This is pretty disturbing how much of a negative effect the Palins are having on the investigation.
Now to the diary at the top of the rec list: Today's Anchorage Daily News editorial: "Governor is stonewalling the Troopergate investigation"
This is a very well written diary going over the ADN's stonewall article today, but it left out this update:
From the article:
Gov. Sarah Palin's lawyer, Thomas Van Flein, made an absurd threat in his battle to get the Legislature to back off its ethics investigation of the governor and her staff.
Van Flein said legislative investigator Steve Branchflower tried to call First Gentleman Todd Palin directly on "a secure and confidential line. This represents a serious security breach that we may be obligated to report to the Secret Service."
Hello? Branchflower is acting on behalf of the Legislature. That's a security breach?
That's some Bush/Cheney behavior right there if I've ever seen it.