The Washington Post just got it's hands on the emails that Pailn sent out concerned with the firing of a state-trooper. These emails come from someone else she fired along with the trooper, and could prove to be damning in a court case, because what you say in email is permanent.
Follow me over the fold for all the details.
WaPo notes that the speeches were never made public, but they were shown to them by a Walter Monegan, a public saftey commissioner, who was also fired by Palin.
"This trooper is still out on the street, in fact he's been promoted," said the Feb. 7, 2007, e-mail sent from Palin's personal Yahoo account and written to give Monegan permission to speak on a violent-crime bill before the state legislature.
"It was a joke, the whole year long 'investigation' of him," the e-mail said. "This is the same trooper who's out there today telling people the new administration is going to destroy the trooper organization, and that he'd 'never work for that b****', Palin'.)"
Read the whole article, it goes on to describe how much Palin gossips in her emails as well as pushes people to help her set ta trap for the trooper.
Of course, the Palin team has released a comment, from the same article:
Asked about the e-mails, Palin's campaign spokeswoman Maria Comella said that Palin was merely alerting officials to potential threats to her family and that there is no evidence that Palin ever ordered Wooten to be fired.
This is just a minor update in the Troopergate scandal of course, but it gives more details about the evidence that is starting to mount against Palin's ethics. Of course Palin is gong to try to "hit it out of the ballpark" with her speech tonight, but this scandal is sure to come up again when the case goes to trial, and when she is (I think) most likely to be found guilty.
This does something very important for us, according to Chuck Todd all the Palin scandals will be "water under the bridge" by next week. If the scandal breaks into national news again, then it has the potential to destroy Palin's (fake) 'maverick/reformer' credentials built up by the loving media.
So, supposedly by the last week of October, we should be seeing the results of this investigation into Palin, That is, unless her team of newly hired lawyers manages to tangle the process up so much that we won't get any information.
The only way we can stop her lawyers from tangling this up and delaying it is to keep it in the spotlight.
As an aside, I find it a bit disingenuous of Palin to be sending emails to this person to encourage him to get a bill passed that require 99-year sentences for police officers that betray the public trust:
In the e-mail sent a few weeks later, Palin encouraged Monegan to testify for a bill that would require 99-year sentences for police officers found guilty of murder. "For police officers to violate the public trust is a grave, grave violation -- in my opinion. We have too many examples lately of cops and troopers who violate the public trust DPS has come across as merely turning a blind eye or protecting that officer, seemingly 'for the good of the brotherhood'."
...and then to go ahead and fire a officer anyways. Was she trying to set up this trap for this policeman she hates so much--her ex-brother-in-law?