In the "Troopergate" matter, an investigation by an agency under her office cleared her of any wrongdoing, while one headed by a legislative committee concluded she had abused her office.
Meanwhile, the following had been posted at the time, on the Flopping Aces website:
Talk about a stacked deck!
Sarah Palin is being investigated by the Alaska Legislative Counsel for any improper action she may have taken in firing the State’s public safety commissioner or any pressure Palin may have put on him regarding her brother in law: a State Trooper known for being violent towards members of his family and threatening to kill Palin’s father.
Mata Harley has the whole story covered in detail.
Questions about the partisan nature of the investigation arose after State Senator Hollis French (D), project manager for the investigation, promised the findings would be an “October surprise.”
Further questions regarding the objectivity of this investigation are raised by the following photograph which shows some Democrat members of the Alaska Legislative Counsel and State Sen. French, at an Obama event July 30, 2008. From the official Obama web site:
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This "legislative committee" is referenced again in a recent article at Flopping Aces:
4: Sept. 2, 2008: Palin files an ethics complaint request on her Troopergate charges, saying that the legislative investigation has now become too political. This is the first of the three Troopergate related ethics charges, atop the legislative investigation. One day before the election, the Personnel Board dismissed the charges, saying the firing of Monegan violated no ethics laws. As I said… already been there, done that… see the Troopergate series archives.
WSJ's brief reference to the findings of "a legislative committee" would naturally put doubt in the mind of the reader that, perhaps, Sarah had been guilty of some wrongdoing, especially because it was the "agency under her office" that cleared her.
Slimy, aren't they?