The media is buzzing with reports that Gov. Sarah Palin is guilty of abusing her power in the trooper gate accusation. But for the present, until I know more, it seems to me that Bill Dyer a/k/a Beldar perceives what is going on better than most. His post is titled, "Branchflower report on Tasergate: Just one guy's
opinion that contradicts itself and ignores the relevant facts and law." He writes:
Please understand this, if you take nothing else away from reading this post: The Branchflower Report is a series of guess and insupportable conclusions drawn by exactly one guy, and it hasn't been approved or adopted or endorsed by so much as a single sub-committee of the Alaska Legislature, much less any kind of commission, court, jury, or other proper adjudicatory body. It contains no new bombshells in terms of factual revelations. Rather, it's just Steve Branchflower's opinion — after being hired and directed by one of Gov. Palin's most vocal opponents and one of Alaska's staunchest Obama supporters — that he thinks Gov. Palin had, at worst, mixed motives for an action that even Branchflower admits she unquestionably had both (a) the complete right to perform and (b) other very good reasons to perform. [Beldar's emphases] Continue reading . . .