Palin crony, Alaska Attorney General says subpoenas will be ignored, she is above the law
It is virtually unprecedented that a state attorney general say he will break the law and not honor lawful subpoenas. This is something right out of the corrupt Bush Administration’s politicized Justice Dept.
Even the much maligned and indicted Alaska senator Ted Stevens wants to get his trial over before the election so he can be found innocent and clear his name. Contrast this with Palin’s tactic to make sure that special counsel Steve Branchflower won’t be able to issue his report before the election. Obviously, she fears the investigation and the findings that could come from it.
It is fairly clear from a damning audio tape already released that the allegation has merit. This audio tape is of a recorded phone call from Palin senior staffer Frank Bailey to an Alaska Public Safety Department staffer, (trashing of Wooten starts at 7:30 on the tape). First Palin claimed she knew nothing about any pressure from her office to fire her ex-brother-in-law, and her subsequent firing of the Public Safety Director Walt Monegan when he would not do so.
Palin now admits DOZENS of contacts to state police, both from her staff and from her husband, Todd, but admitted only after this TrooperGate recording surfaced. Caught.
This is how Republicans do business. They don’t call it the “Culture of Corruption” for nothin’.
So she fires somebody that she has the right to fire for any reason whatsover, and there is a crime. She could have fired the guy because she didn’t like the way he parted his hair.
But lets say that she explicitly fired him because he allowed scum like her brother in law to still work as a trooper, a guy that drank in his patrol car, tasered a little kid, threatened to kill another human being. Yeah, that’s a good scandal you got there William. Pursue the hell out of it.
Why is she affraid of the investigation if she has nothing to hide? Why wouldn’t she want to clear this up?
Tell us Glen
She lied - that’s why
Because it’s BS. I would tell them to go to hell too. She can hire and fire whoever she wants to, and for any reason. It’s typical Democratic BS, purely political.
It’s called abuse of power - an authoritarian’s dream
If it’s BS, then she shouldn’t have anything to worry about in cooperating with the investigation. Which is probably why she said she would do so, before she flip-flopped on that.
And even in an employment-at-will arrangement (which I’m not sure applies to government agencies and employees), there’s still such a thing as wrongful termination, which can be, and often is, litigated.
A subpoena is a subpoena.
If you support the idea of officials and attorneys ignoring them, you are in effect volunteering to live in [insert horrific totalitarian regime here].
Same goes for torture, BTW.