Palin cleared in second 'troopergate' probe

The so-call legislative panel was used by the Democrats to politically attack Sarah Palin. It had no authority. The state Personnel Board of Alaska does have the authority. The board concluded that the wrong state law was used by Steve Branchflower and that he also misconstrued the evidence as well.

Recommendations by the board:

- There is no cause to believe Palin violated the state ethics law in deciding to dismiss Monegan as public safety commissioner.

- There is no cause to believe Palin violated the state ethics law in connection with Wooten.

- There is no cause to believe any other state official violated the ethics act.

- There's no basis to conduct a hearing to "address reputational harm," as requested by Monegan.

- The state needs to address the issue of using private e-mails for government work and to examine how records are kept in the governor's office. Palin used her Yahoo e-mail account for state business until it was hacked.

The headline is way too kind and lends way to much legitemacy to a crony report. I'm up here in Anchorage and this just put me on the bandwagon to recall/impeach/whatever it takes to get this "crook" out of the Governor's Mansion. She's a liar and a crook. The she changed after the fact , what the purpose of her family's travel was for, trying to jusitfy spending tax dollars on her family's travel expenses etc., show's she's a crook. The way she kept changing story after story about why Monegan got fired makes her a liar. Don't give this "report" any credibility. Up here we know it's a sham.

Yawn. Is anyone following this woman anymore? Her highest moment was when Tina Fey impersonated her on SNL. Poof! There she goes.

should read: "mess divorce with Palin's sister-in-law."

2 investigations found different guesses at her mindset but the facts of her actions were wrong in both.

The Governor appoints this board. They decide her guilt. She signs the check.
Yeah.

In a statement, Palin's lawyer said she was pleased with the ruling, which proves that the legislative probe's conclusion was wrong.

Really? Why wouldn't the legislative probe's conclusion prove this new ruling wrong?

This is great! It was always clear to any honest individual that she was not guilty of any wrongdoing here. This was simply a political stunt on part of a few Alaskan democrats. She should be able to sue, though, for clearly they timed the whole thing to play out during the last several weeks. Now clearance comes and vendicates her......hello, the night before we vote?! I'm sure the ethic's probe was handled as quickly as possible, but this was the best they could do. At least it wasn't held back until tomorrow night I suppose.

Its not an abuse of power if you wink while you do it.
Wink Wink

She diid not abuse power to fire the safety commisioner. She has the right to fire any of the commisioners according to the constitution of the Sate of Alaska
But the investigator did not investigate if she had any one try to force the firing of the troopers. This investigation was fixed from the start because they never investigated the whole story. It is like writing a novel and purposely skipping pages. Typical repubgant tactics