It's been diaried above that Sarah Palin was caught lying by ABC News (who would have thought), but the very good diary and new article misses the bigger story.
The Governor of the State of Alaska lied in a Court document.
Fighting back against allegations she may have fired her then-Public Safety Commissioner, Walt Monegan, for refusing to go along with a personal vendetta, Palin on Monday argued in a legal filing that she fired Monegan because he had a "rogue mentality" and was bucking her administration's directives.
"The last straw," her lawyer argued, came when he planned a trip to Washington, D.C., to seek federal funds for an aggressive anti-sexual-violence program. The project, expected to cost from $10 million to $20 million a year for five years, would have been the first of its kind in Alaska, which leads the nation in reported forcible rape...
But the governor's staff authorized the trip, according to an internal travel document from the Department of Public Safety, released Friday in response to an open records request.
I am not an attorney, nor do I know Alaska laws, but I do know that the Mayor of Detroit will be doing time in jail for perjury after doing pretty much the same thing. I would love to hear your input on the legal implications of her actions.