Decades ago a rather insignificant individual made a statement during the water gate hearings that didn’t draw much attention on the evening news; he casually mentioned the fact Nixon taped conversations in the oval office. Some historians mark that day as the unstoppable beginning of the end for Richard Nixon.
Her Excellency the Governor of the Great State of Alaska, Sarah Palin will never become Vice President of the United States even if John McCain becomes President. One of the principle witnesses defending Governor Palin in the trooper probe, choose to avoid the error that sent Martha Stewart to Jail. They recanted previous statements offered to the probes independent investigator Stephen Branchflower.
Murlene Wilkes, whose company Harbor Adjusting Services, has the $1.2 million a year contract with the State to handle workers compensation claims. Admitted she initially lied when asked if the governor’s office ever asked her to deny a worker’s compensation claim for Palin’s ex-brother-in-law Trooper Mike Wooten.
Unknown to Wilkes a woman working for the company whose identity is being protected called the tip line Branchflower set up at the beginning of the investigation. According to the informant the governor’s office did pressure her to deny the claim. Confronted with the revelation, Wilkes did the wise thing. She asked to change her statements to avoid perjury and admitted the attempt to have her deny the claim was at the direct request of the Governor’s office.
Martha Stewart committed no crime in taking advantage of unsolicited insider information to sell stock; she went to jail because she lied to cover up that which was not criminal to begin with. Those still drinking the kool-aid will attempt to spin it down and it may take a couple weeks to become the lead story on the evening news cycle.
But like the revelation of Nixon’s tapes, the first domino has fallen. Links to official transcripts, detailed articles and probe sources for this post can be viewed here and here
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackOk so if all of this story is true, first, Wilkes was the one to lie in the first place and she dose not make any claim that Sarah Palin or her office asked her to lie. Second, what was the claim that Trooper Wooten made to be able to get workman’s compensation? Did he taser himself like he did his 10 year old stepson? Maybe crash his state trooper car while drinking and driving. Shoot himself while illegally hunting moose? You seem to painfully not even address what claim Wooten made, ignore his dismal record, and find fault with Palin if she raised any question any citizen of Alaska has the right to do. You just want to place fault on her because someone else might have lied? No where in your story do you tell us what Trooper Wooten claimed was his injury and how he should have rightfully been granted workers compensation. My guess is that it was a false claim, but lets not look at the real issue of Wooten abusing the system, lets try and place blame on someone that questioned or maybe even offered evidence against him. In my mind, nothing you can say has any merit unless you give the full facts of the case. What was Trooper Wooten’s claim? If Sarah Palin had personal information that the claim was false should she be prohibited to express it because she was Governor? Should her staff not have the ability to look into all issues when a threat is made against a leader of the State or her family? All you want to do is attack Sarah Palin and you never report the underlying claim! Why do you not report what Wooten’s claim was? My guess is that it was so false Sarah Palin had a duty, not as just because of her elected office, but as a citizen, she had a duty to report it.
KMKolsch, the question that is pertinent to this investigation is not the veracity of Mike Wootens claim. It is why did Murlene Wilkes choose to lie? Is she just a compulsive liar, or did someone from the Governors Office tell her to lie? Did they threaten not to renew her contract? If someone from the Governors office told her to lie to investigators then Caribou Barbie is more likely to end up in the Big House, not the White House.
It would be ironic if this rather trivial matter gets Palin off the ticket. Her manifest unsuitability to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency should have ensured that she was nowhere in the frame originally. But what the heck – Al Capone was jailed for Tax evasion, so if the ends justify the means that’s fine by me!
WHAT A BUNCH OF BULLS HIT
“But what the heck – Al Capone was jailed for Tax evasion, so if the ends justify the means that’s fine by me!”
LOL. Palin also cheated on her taxes!!
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