Sarah Palin and the McCain Campaign have repeatedly denied accusations in the Troopergate investigation. Now, the report may prove an embarrasment to the campaign.

After the McCain Campaign’s hasty release of a report claiming no wrong doing on the part of Governor Sarah Palin in the matter of the Troopergate investigation and their subsequent attempt to block the legislature-initiated investigation the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that the original investigation conforms to law and must proceed. The report that investigation resulted in is due out today.

Investigators have been looking into the firing of Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan, which it is charged was motivated by Governor Sarah Palin. The allegation is that she wanted her ex-brother-in-law, Sheriff Michael Wooten, fired from the Alaska State Police and pressured Walt Monegan to do the firing. When he did not comply with this order, the allegation maintains, she had him fired.

Alaska’s State Legislature approved the investigation with wide bipartisan support after the firing of Walt Monegan in July of this year.  But what was once a quiet and relatively minor ethics case was thrown into the national spotlight when the Republican Presidential Candidate, John McCain, tapped Sarah Palin to be his running mate. The case has subsequently been the subject of intense scrutiny by national media and the blogging community alike ever since.

In that time, many attempts have been made to halt the progress of the report.  On Thursday, the McCain Campaign released a document claiming that Palin was not guilty of any wrong-doing whatsoever in the case.  Moreover, they claimed that the dispute that led to the firing of Walter Monegan was as a result of budget disputes.  This claim does not square with any of the other myriad of justifications used in defense of Sarah Palin in Troopergate, and acknowledges that Monegan did indeed get fired, which is yet another fact in the case which was previously disputed by Sarah Palin, her husband Todd and the McCain Campaign.  Todd Palin admitted in an affidavit that Monegan was indeed fired.

Charges are now beginning to line up that Todd Palin was the person most responsible for the firing.  His testimony in the affidavit says that he was responsible.  He claims that he spoke to “anyone who would listen” about the matter.  Specifically, the Seattle Times is reporting that Todd Palin’s affidavit states that the alleged disagreement between the Palins and Monegan was over, among other things, the use of Alaska’s state trooper airplane.  Todd Palin claimed that “It seemed that whenever Sarah needed this plane, it was unavailable.”  Palin suggested that Monegan may have been retaliating for the Palin’s decision to sell the plane often used by the Public Safety department.  This was the plane Sarah Palin has insisted on the stump was sold by her on eBay.

However, the investigator in the case disputes this notion, claiming that “anyone who knows Sarah knows she is the governor and she calls the shots.”  The New York Times is reporting that not only did the Governor’s Office contact Monegan’s over the matter, it did so no less than three dozen times including an episode where Wooten and Palin were to attend the same fair and Palin demanded he be reassigned.

And now the Alaska Supreme Court has ruled on an appeal from Alaska Republicans, supported by a Texas Conservative legal group.  The group claimed that continuing the investigation in light of the politics at work would be a violation of the Governor’s right to a fair trial.  The Supremes’ decision was that no such violation was at work and they directed that the investigation proceed.  The report is due out some time later this afternoon.roopergate, Investigation

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