The ‘Troopergate’ Cover-Up

Here we go again. Sarah Palin, after “welcoming the investigation” into her firing of Walt Monegan, her chief law enforcement officer, is stonewalling big time.

After pledging to cooperate, she did a complete about-face and told her staff and her husband not to talk to investigators. She refused to be interviewed.

When 13 people were subpoenaed by a bipartisan committee, suddenly the highly partisan Attorney General Talis Colberg has urged that they defy the call to testify. An army of Republican lawyers and operatives are in Alaska and the order has been given: “Shut this down, stop it in its tracks.”

The reason: After months of trying to get her ex-brother-in-law fired, after hiring private investigators, after using her staff as governor to place two dozen phone calls and countless e-mails, after involvement by her husband, she fired Monegan. And then she lied about it.

If she was truly innocent of wrongdoing, why not cooperate fully, as she said she would? Why try so desperately to cover this up?

This is a woman with serious problems with the truth — on the bridges to nowhere, on her abysmal record on earmarks, on her fabrications about Alaska’s contributions to oil and gas, on banning books at the Wasilla library, on selling the state plane on eBay, on and on.

The truly scary thing is that Palin may get away with her stonewalling and her cover-up. But stay tuned. This isn’t over yet.