...and with her John McCain, since he is the one who had the “judgment” to choose her to be one of his weak heartbeats away from the Presidency:
From TPM Muckraker: Trooper-Gate: Palin's Shifting Stories
In brief: Governor Palin has so far offered 3 completely contradictory explanations for firing her public safety commissioner. Anytime someone does that it is obvious they are lying. And perhaps the best part is that her newest cover story (which she only now comes up with, 2 months after the firing) is she fired the guy for being too aggressive in going after child sex abusers!!!
Details after the jump....
In this interview from July, Palin said she fired Monegan because she was dissatisfied with his performance on filling vacant trooper positions and on bootlegging and alcohol abuse issues.
Around the same time, she told The New Yorker, for a story published this week, that she hadn't actually fired Monegan, but rather had wanted to reassign him to combat alcohol abuse, and that he quit instead....
But the new line from the Palin camp is that Monegan was fired for his insubordination on budget issues, culminating in his effort to win federal money for the initiative to combat sexual assaults -- an explanation that neither Palin nor anyone around her had raised until now, two months after the firing....
Update: According to TPMmuckraker's reporting, the initiative to combat sexual assault that Palin now claims she fired Monegan for trying to get federal money for, was designed to go after child sex abusers.
And the lies don't stop there:
Palin at first said no one in her office had exerted pressure to fire Mike Wooten -- the trooper who was embroiled in a bitter dispute with the Palin family. But after a tape surfaced of Palin-aide Frank Bailey raising the issue with a trooper official in a phone call, Palin backtracked and admitted that "pressure could have been perceived to exist," though she maintained that Bailey had been freelancing.
Similarly, she at first said that she had never contacted Monegan about Wooten except in the context of expressing concerns about the safety of her family. But recently, The Washington Post published emails sent by Palin to Monegan in which she expressed frustration that Wooten was still on the job.
And of course, Palin at first pledged total cooperation with the investigation. Now, through her lawyer, she refuses to testify, saying that the probe has been inappropriately politicized.
For the complete story, including links to the sources of this report, please read the original TPM Muckraker report.
With that many lies already exposed, it's no wonder Palin is reneging on her promise to cooperate with the investigation. People need to hear about this story and all its sordid details.
UPDATE: More details here.