Report: Palin's actions "proper and lawful" in trooper case

Though the headlines are deliberately geared to give the opposite impression, the panel that investigated Sarah Palin's involvement in the so-called "troopergate" case found her actions in firing a state commissioner "proper and lawful".

But somehow the same panel also found that the firing involved improper "personal gain" -- presumably in that Palin's husband pushed for Trooper Wooten to be fired because he'd tased Palin's 10-year-old nephew. God knows if you want a cop fired after he tazes your nephew, you're only doing it for "personal gain".

So, let's make the headline more accurate:

Report: Objecting to tasing child "improper", constitutes "abuse of power"

Now, let's get to the meat of it -- what the MSM doesn't want you to know or even think about:

Gov. Palin’s so-called “firing” of Monegan (it wasn’t a firing, it was a re-assignment to other government duties that he resigned rather than accept) can’t simultaneously be a violation of the Ethics Act and “a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority.” This, gentle readers, is a 263-page piece of political circus that actually explicitly refutes itself on its single most key page!

Got that?

1. Palin didn't fire the guy. She re-assigned him, and he resigned rather than take the position.
2. The reassignment was "a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority".

but

3. If it is, as the report said, "a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority, then it can not also simultaneously be a breach of ethics law!

It can't be legal and illegal at the same time.

So -- What's the story?

And can THIS have anything to do with it:



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