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Would love a full and transparent disclosure of circumstances surrounding the dismissal of the state's public safety director. Did First Dude exercise undue influence?
An Alaska State Attorney General who owes his job to First Dude's wife, the governor, (appointed in December 2006) is unlikely to do anything unless provided a high-definition digital video, transcript and taped confession pointing to a crime being committed.
As long as he doesn't fib during a probe, First Dude can feign ignorance of ethics or civil rights. He can say he was motivated out of "concern" for his family's safety when he inquired on the trooper's employment status several times and shared information dug up from a private investigator hired to tail the tainted cop. Call it the "Palin Doctrine" defense. Doesn't matter that Alaska's First Family presumably has access to a government provided security attache.
