In any case, Sarah is running out of wiggle-room…

I wouldn’t put it past Branchflower to have watched the Petumenos announcement – and saying to himself, “Hell, there’s Tim! He has a terrific reputation as an above-board lawyer!” – and placing all the confidentiality-protected evidence of Ethical Misconduct in an envelope, sealing it, and then slapping a transmittal form on it to Petumenos’ attention – with a subject line of: “Have fun, Pardner!”

If that happened – if Branchflower essentially sent the work-up file for an indictment on a misdemeanor Ethics Violation to Petumenos – it might be next to impossible to get a white-wash Personnel Board Report for Sarah.

I’ll bet lawyer shop-talk over Bourbon-and-Branches are full of interestin’ reminences about un-doing the clever and powerful…

and she means it in a neutral sense? she isn’t a very good liar.. on the other hand she only has to convince a few low iq folks to win a few votes…

kudos, they neo cons have not co-opted the intire republican party

Also note, Todd later came back to Monegan and asked for that file back–perhaps realizing he shouldn’t have given it to Monegan.

So yeah, Cyr is not a Palin fan.

This is the section covering Todd’s infamous January 4th meeting in the Governor’s Conference Room with Monegan. There are three stacks of paper arranged in front of Todd. One of the stacks is photos printed onto typing paper, showing the Moose Kill. The second stack of papers is a ‘Private Investigator’s Report.’

But the third stack, of about 3 or 4 pages, is a copy of a letter, on DPS letterhead, from Colonel Grimes (Monegan’s predecessor) dating back to before the Palins became Governor.

What footnote #9 makes clear is that Col. Grimes never sent any correspondence to Sarah and Todd regarding the Wooten investigation – which means that that DPS Letter, which looks for all the world to be a Note-To-File by Col. Grimes ‘closing out’ the DPS’s internal investigation of Trooper Wooten – that copy of the Grimes letter originated from somewhere besides the Palins.

While there’s no doubt that Sarah, like any head of department, could routinely request an employee’s personnel file to review as part of consideration for a personnel/career action – it’s what she did with the file after she got it that seems to be the problem, because it appears that she – at a minimum, and Branchflower says there is evidence of her direct involvement – but at a minimum, she appears to have allowed Todd access to the contents of Wooten’s file, for the purpose of pressing for further action with Monegan.

So, the January 4th meeting appears to go like this:

- Todd hands Monegan the Grimes document to read while Todd says, “We don’t think he was punished enough.”

- Then Todd refers to the ‘Private Investigator’s Report’ – presumably to show that the Moose Kill wasn’t properly investigated as part of the Internal DPS Review that the Grimes document refers to.

- Finally, Todd slides the stack of Moose Kill spy-photos over to Monegan as his ‘evidence’ and says, “See?” Todd then pushes the three stacks of paper together into one pile and gives the consolidated stack to Monegan to take with him.

So, Todd’s whole pressure tactic on Monegan in the January 4th meeting – one month after Sarah has become Governor – appears to be based on the Grimes Document, which we know didn’t come from the Palins – but could, very well, have come from the Personnel File that Sarah likely ordered up for her own ‘review.’

She then ‘looked the other way’ while Todd Abused the Governor’s Power – taking information from a Strictly Confidential, Privacy Protected, Personnel File – in order to Run a Pressure Campaign to achieve Sarah’s Desired Outcome – the Firing of Trooper Wooten.

Or, at least footnote #9 makes that scenario very possible…