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2010-11-30T13:57:03Z

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2010-11-30T13:56:38Z

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Report clears Palin in Troopergate investigation

2010-06-26T00:46:53Z

Report says Sarah Palin, staff did not violate ethics laws during safety commissioner firing

Gov. Sarah Palin violated no ethics laws when she fired her public safety commissioner, the state personnel board concluded in a report released Monday. "There is no probable cause to believe that the governor, or any other state official, violated the Alaska Executive Ethics ...

McCain, Palin and a Bush-Style Whitewash

2010-06-25T22:45:27Z

For anyone who followed the story of how and why Sarah Palin fired her state’s public safety commissioner, last week’s release of a legislative investigation that found she had violated state ethics statutes was anticlimatic. After all, everyone knows that she and her husband Todd tried to push Walt Monegan, then Alaska’s public safety commissioner, ...

Subpoenaed Palin aides don't appear at abuse probe

2010-04-16T13:12:13Z

7 subpoenaed Palin aides fail to show up for hearing into her possible abuse of power

Seven of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's top aides defied subpoenas for their testimony Friday into possible abuse of power by the governor.

Palin's chief of staff, Mike Nizich, and six other aides failed to appear at a legislative hearing into whether Palin abused her powe...

Palin probe has parallels to 2000 recount fight

2010-06-25T23:05:38Z

GOP moves to derail Palin probe have parallels to 2000 Florida recount fight

This time, there are no hanging chads.

Yet the Republicans' drive to derail an abuse of power investigation against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP vice presidential candidate, reflects the same determination a...

Palin unlikely to speak with investigator

2010-06-25T23:14:35Z

McCain spokesman: Palin unlikely to speak with 'Troopergate' investigator, probe 'tainted'

Gov. Sarah Palin is unlikely to speak with an independent counsel hired by Alaska lawmakers to review the firing of her public safety commissioner, a spokesman for Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Monday.