McCain campaign sends lawyer to Alaska to shut down ‘Troopergate’ investigation.»

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/17/palin-mccain-shut-down-troopergate/

McCain campaign sends lawyer to Alaska to shut down ‘Troopergate’ investigation.»

On September 2, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) filed an ethics complaint against herself with the state’s Personnel Board in an effort to move the “Troopergate” investigation from the state’s legislature to the three-member board she oversees. Yesterday, Ed O’Callaghan, a former U.S. Attorney that the McCain campaign sent to Alaska to advise Palin’s lawyers on the case, said Palin “is 100 percent going to cooperate with the Personnel Board inquiry.” However, Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff reports that O’Callaghan is actually in Alaska to shut down the investigation that Palin initiated:

Then this week, Van Flein (again assisted by O’Callaghan) filed a new motion with the Personnel Board. This one argued that, after a review of the evidence, including internal e-mails within the governor’s office, the governor’s lawyers had determined there was “no probable cause” to pursue any ethics inquiry into Palin at all. As a result, it argued, the previous motion for an ethics inquiry (which Van Flein himself had filed less than two weeks ago) should be dismissed.

[Cha]

1. From all the revelations about palin in the last two weeks..

I would guess that's it's very important to pursue this "ethics violation" against palin.

I don't find anything ethical about her At All.

[hisownpetard]

2. *A* lawyer? Dollars to doughnuts, there's a dozen, at least. Probably the same number

McCain used to cover up Cindy's DEA offenses and the Keating Five fiasco.

Now, if you want to talk about experience, that's where McCain can weigh in.

[WCGreen]

3. So much for an open book...

I guess they threatened the GOP lawmakers in Alaska with an earmark clippin' if they continued with the probe.

Funny, it was going along all right until Palin was picked as a VP...

What does Sarah really have to hide...

[Rob H.]

4. "...including internal e-mails within the governor’s office..."

The problem with that is that Palin and her cronies/subordinates didn't always use their official, government email addresses. From the NY Times article Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes:

Interviews show that Ms. Palin runs an administration that puts a premium on loyalty and secrecy. The governor and her top officials sometimes use personal e-mail accounts for state business; dozens of e-mail messages obtained by The New York Times show that her staff members studied whether that could allow them to circumvent subpoenas seeking public records.

~snip~

While Ms. Palin took office promising a more open government, her administration has battled to keep information secret. Her inner circle discussed the benefit of using private e-mail addresses. An assistant told her it appeared that such e-mail messages sent to a private address on a “personal device” like a BlackBerry “would be confidential and not subject to subpoena.”

Ms. Palin and aides use their private e-mail addresses for state business. A campaign spokesman said the governor copied e-mail messages to her state account “when there was significant state business.”

On Feb. 7, Frank Bailey, a high-level aide, wrote to Ms. Palin’s state e-mail address to discuss appointments. Another aide fired back: “Frank, this is not the governor’s personal account.”

Mr. Bailey responded: “Whoops~!”

(Emphases added by me.)

Add the secrecy and the fact that of her 20 months in office, she's spent roughly 312 nights away from the governor's mansion at her home in Wasilla, and you get someone who combines Cheney's lust for keeping his activities out of the public eye and Bush's laziness. And people are willing to vote for this clown! :crazy: