The Troopergate report reminded me of a blog post I read about the Sarah Palin’s interview with Sean Hannity (I don’t remember where I read this, so I can’t attribute it). If you saw this, you weren’t surprised by the report’s conclusion; in the interview, Palin inadvertently admits that she’s guilty! (There ya go again, Sean, with yer "Gotcha" Journalism!)
Hannity asks Palin about the investigation, which was looking into whether Palin’s dismissal of Alaska’s Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety was improperly motivated by his refusal to fire her ex-brother-in-law, which she was allegedly pressuring him to do.
Palin asserts that she asked the Commissioner to transfer to another position simply because she had "an obligation to make sure we had the right people in the right places at the right time in the cabinet to best serve Alaskans." He refused the tranfer and left the service. She says:
It had nothing to do with a former brother-in-law, a state trooper who happened to have been married to one of my sisters until about three years ago.
Hannity then says that there was "talk" about this brother-in-law having tasered a 10 or 11 year old boy. Palin responds:
He did. This trooper Tasered my nephew. And he Tasered — well, that was — it’s all on the record. It’s all there. His threats against the first family, the threat against my dad. All that is in the record. And if the opposition researchers are choosing to forget that side of the story, they’re not doing their job.
See, right there she forgot that her story is that the brother-in-law has nothing to do with the firing, and states that his behavior is an essential part of the story. She apparently switched to a defense of: the brother-in-law was such a bad guy I was justified in pressuring the Commissioner to fire him.
She was "tricked" into blowing her whole story and revealing her true motivation by the most friendly, sycophantic interrogator imaginable, Sean Hannity. This is the person John McCain thinks is ready for games of brinkmanship with the likes of Russia, China, North Korea and Iran