Todd and Sarah to testify under oath before AK personel board on Friday.

[jefferson_dem]

Reported on AC360 just now.

[napi21]

1. I'm not positive, but I THINK it's a deposition, so they will be

under oath and be questioned, but I don't think they're going to AK. to testify in person.

[jefferson_dem]

5. Right.

They mentioned that also. They will be deposed, but not in AK.

[napi21]

9. A deposition is usually easier to go through. Not nearly as many people are there,

and nobody has to put on a show.

[Blaze Diem]

2. Gee Sarah, What you going to wear???

So many new outfits to choose from.

[Clio the Leo]

3. darn it! ya beat me to it! lol NT

[CakeGrrl]

4. Isn't this the board that the Governor can fire at will? n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

6. The Board is,

but the attorney handling the matter is very good, and he's a Democrat. He has already been provided with Branchflower's report and the 1,000 pages or so of confidential information that he had. My guess is this investigation will be an affirmation of the first one.

Mudflats -- http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/troopergate-i-shares-documents-with-troopegate-ii/


Think of it as a changing of the guard. The first Troopergate investigation (the one from the Alaska Legislature) has concluded, finding that although Palin was within her legal rights to fire Walt Monegan, the Commissioner of Public Safety, she DID abuse her power and violate the state’s ethics code.

The new guard is another investigation, prompted by Palin herself, from the Personnel Board. Presumably Palin went to the extraordinary lengths of filing an ethics complaint against herself because she felt that the Personnel Board would be a friendlier investigative body. This may or may not be so. Crackerjack Anchorage prosecutor (and Democrat) Tim Petumenos has been hired by the board as the special investigator.

Petumenos has asked the Legislative Council to turn over the confidential information from their special investigator, Stephen Branchflower. The Legislative Council made public a 263-page tome with the snappy title: “Report of the Investigation of the Circumstances Surrounding the Termination of Former Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan and Potential Abuses of Power and/or Improper Actions by Members of Governor Sarah Palin’s Administration, Volume I, Public Report.” It’s Volume 2 we’re talking about.

Volume 2 makes Volume 1 look like a flimsy paperback, and contains information utilized to come to the conclusions that were stated in the public report. Everything in Volume 2, is not for public consumption. I didn’t even know they made binders that big.

So, meanwhile, the Personnel Board and its investigation, which operates out of the public eye, marches on. We don’t know when they will be finished, we don’t know when they will release the report, and we don’t know what the report will say. But every once in a while, like a surfacing whale, we catch a glimpse of this mysterious investigation, before it sinks out of sight again. And we wait.

[frylock]

7. good info..

keep us posted.

[sohndrsmith]

8. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but this is before people she appointed.

Which sort of defeats the purpose.

[Blue_In_AK]

10. All three of the board members were holdovers appointed

by her predecessor, Frank Murkowski. Only one of them has been "re-upped" by Sarah -- a guess they have overlapping term limits or something. It's a well known fact that she's not very popular with the "old guard" Republicans here, so it's not a given that they will be friendly.

[sohndrsmith]

13. well then, that's reassuring.... right? Why the idea of "conflict of

interest" doesn't enter into these things simply because of titular power is something I can't figure out....

[Warren Stupidity]

11. Can you imagine if Joe and Jill Biden were in this situation?

The 'librul' media would be eating their livers nightly while roasting their toes in a pit of fire. Instead:

:crickets:

[FLyellowdog]

12. So has the McCain camp already put out the results?

[Blue_In_AK]

14. This will be another opportunity (hopefully)

for some more good Alaskans to show what they're made of, like the legislative council did.