Comments on: Did McCain/Palin Obstruct Justice in the Johnston Case?

By: maryo2

maryo2 — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:55:52 +0000

“The affidavit, dated Dec. 22, details how troopers used two informants to collect evidence that Johnston sold OxyContin on Oct. 11, Oct. 22 and Nov. 26. The informants had been arrested themselves on a drug charge and agreed to help trap Johnston.”
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska.....33751.html

Questions:
- Why does the ADN say second deal was made on October 22, while the NYT says October 12?
- Why was a third deal necessary on November 26? (Was it just to justify waiting until after the election??)
- What did Mrs. Johnston say to Palin and vice versa? Just because the Secret Service and Troopers agreed that the surveillence was only during contacts with Palin doesn’t mean there was nothing learned during those conversations.
- Were the previously arrested informants arrested in relation to Track Palin’s arrest?

By: IFSIM

IFSIM — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:27:57 +0000

In fairness, the NYT and Post seem to have gotten it straight from an affidavit. That isn’t bad reporting, that is bad police work.

I agree, that’s bad police work, and I don’t blame this blog, or anyone, for trusting a major newspaper to get the facts straight.

The timing is what bothers me in this particular case: the ADN article is dated December 24. Thus the issue was cleared up by an authoritative local source one day prior to the publication of the Times article and two days prior to the publication of the Post article. If I were writing for the Post, hinting about a “controversy” that had been put to rest two days before, I’d make a promise to myself to check the local papers next time!

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:45:39 +0000

Hey, thanks. You’re the champ at this stuff.

BTW: Sometime I’ll bore the sh*t out of you with background detail about “My Pet Goat”. It was actually part of a reading program out of Eugene, OR that was sold to IBM back in the early 1970s if the legendary version I heard is correct. I think that I met the guy behind that reading program once time.

That approach to teaching reading had some really impressive results, for all kinds of kids (especially kids who needed extra help).
Unfortunately, like everything else that comes into contact with GWBush, its reputation is now tarnished by being associated with that feckless twit.
What a shame.

I completely agree that it’s hard to believe GWBush understands much of what he reads in those books. If he did, he’d have canned Condi’s ass, along with Hadley’s, years ago.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:09:03 +0000

I think the ADN is a better source than the Times or the Post when it comes to news from Alaska.

In fairness, the NYT and Post seem to have gotten it straight from an affidavit. That isn’t bad reporting, that is bad police work.

By: DaddyLove

DaddyLove — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:45:49 +0000

The troll did waht trolls do. they have few tricks and often cycle through them all. What I saw here was:
1. Point somewhere else to derail the conversation away from the subject (or any subject ahrmful to conservtive interests).
2. Ascribe any and all observations about conservative lawbreaking, corruption, incompetence, and/or malfeasance to Bush Derangement Syndrome or some other mental illness. Ignore fact at all costs.
3. This one prvided a little blast from the past. I recall during the Clinton administration how often trolls would inform us in all seriousness that Any Day Now the evidence would apear that would finally and conclusively prove that Bill Clinton had personally gutted and beheaded Vince Foster, had shot Ron Brown, had smuggled cocaine into the country, had what-have-you. Any Day Now. This one hearkens back to that halcyon era with his assurances that Any Day Now the smoking-gun evidence of Barack Obama’s obvious, extensive, and thorough “Chicago!!” corruption will be surfacing then that then We Will All Be Sorry and will Admit He Is Right.

Get ready for a lot more of this. And like before, it WILL be fun.

By: IFSIM

IFSIM — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:24:56 +0000

I don’t think the Secret Service played much of a role in this. According to this article from the Anchorage Daily News,

The affidavit refers to Johnston being under Secret Service protection while dealing drugs, but that appears to be incorrect.

Special Agent Darrin Blackford, spokesman for the Secret Service in Washington, D.C., said that only the governor and her immediate family were protected. Johnston was not under the agency’s protection or surveillance, he said.

Troopers later agreed that part of the affidavit was wrong.

“Whenever she was in contact with Palin, that was probably the only time it came into play,” said trooper spokeswoman Beth Ipsen.

I think the ADN is a better source than the Times or the Post when it comes to news from Alaska.

By: BlueStateRedHead

BlueStateRedHead — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:54:11 +0000

Laughing makes me miss Jodi. or miss Ms. Jodi. If she was a Ms. If she was a Jodi and not a bunch of freepers. Jodi thought she was thinking and on point. Laughing spews his/her stuff out and hangs it on the most convenient hook.
For example his vitriolic description of our community in response to my comment @1. 25% of which was devoted to “happy new year marcie.” and the other 75% to expressing skepticism that the Palin obstruction would come to anything. But rejoicing in Alaska as our gift that…you know.

If that’s a symptom of what laughing calls “personality disorder” then laughing has a personality disorder. Called extreme paranoia.

By: freepatriot

freepatriot — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 07:32:17 +0000

technically, It was “The Pet Goat”

and I’m willing to bet george is confused about the name of the story too

the fact that george reads two books a week doesn’t impress me

I read a few million words every day

the difference betwen george an me is that I UNDERSTAND what I read …

visions of a scene from “A Fish Called Wanda”:

Apes don’t read Nietzsche

Yes they do Otto, they just don’t understand it

kinda sums up george’s whole academic career, don’t it ???

By: freepatriot

freepatriot — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 07:18:49 +0000

wow, you did a really good job

13 full comments before mommy caught you using her laptop

sorry to inform you that those mcstain blogger points are wothless nowadays

so clean the cheeto stains off your mother’s laptop and get back in the basement whre you live …

hey everybody, get a load of this:

most of you will be without a job soon, too.

this putz thinks I work for a living … ROTFLMAO

btw troll, I don’t believe you’re “laughing” at us. I can tell your true emotions by the desperation you show just by your BEING HERE. We SCARE THE PISS out of people like you, don’t we ???

BOOOOO !!!!

Look everybody, I found a troll in my stocking, I knew santa wouldn’t forget about me

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 05:38:49 +0000

Hmmm… maybe s/he gets that magnificent display from reading the National Review?
Perhaps s/he read TBogg’s latest and came over here to be spiteful, but unfortunately doesn’t seem to know how to serve up revenge with Ding Dongs. Perhaps a little review is in order…?
http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2.....ing-dongs/

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