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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A report has cleared Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin of ethics violations in the firing of her public safety commissioner.

Released Monday, the report says there is no probable cause to believe Palin or any other state official violated the Alaska Executive Ethics Act in connection with the firing. The report was prepared by Timothy Petumenos, an independent counsel for the Alaska Personnel Board.

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didn't she appoint this group herself?

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ORIGINAL: Jhud

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didn't she appoint this group herself?

What part of "Timothy Petumenos, an independent counsel for the Alaska Personnel Board." don't you understand?

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ORIGINAL: Jhud

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didn't she appoint this group herself?

What part of "Timothy Petumenos, an independent counsel for the Alaska Personnel Board." don't you understand?

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ORIGINAL: HighPlainsDrifter

You're right ex, the R behind their name denotes a complete absence of honesty.

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who appoints the alaska personnel board?

hmm. the first investigation has an independent investigator assigned by a bi-partisan committee consisting of mostly republicans.

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ORIGINAL: Jhud

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who appoints the alaska personnel board?

hmm. the first investigation has an independent investigator assigned by a bi-partisan committee consisting of mostly republicans.

Independent counsel is just what it says; independent.

And when it looked like there was going to be a claim of an ethics violation, no hypocritical lefties claimed the board was 'biased' ...until it didn't go their way.

Wonder why that is?

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she appointed that board. what don't you get?

there was already an investigation done on this, and she was found guilty. this new investigation doesn't make anything worse for obama anyways, it's too late in the game and all it does is cancel out the first investigation. it doesn't prove anything. so, no, the lefties aren't upset that things here aren't "going their way", i just wanted to point out some facts. you can keep ignoring them though.

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ORIGINAL: Jhud

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she appointed that board. what don't you get?

there was already an investigation done on this, and she was found guilty. this new investigation doesn't make anything worse for obama anyways, it's too late in the game and all it does is cancel out the first investigation. it doesn't prove anything. so, no, the lefties aren't upset that things here aren't "going their way", i just wanted to point out some facts. you can keep ignoring them though.

She did not appoint the board, her predecessor did.

And the independent counsel who prepared the report is a Democrat. Stop making things up.

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the governor appoints them, and even if she didn't appoint all of them - they're still "her" people.

but like i said, this proves nothing.

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ORIGINAL: Jhud

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the governor appoints them, and even if she didn't appoint all of them - they're still "her" people.

but like i said, this proves nothing.

So before you said, "she appointed that board". I pointed out that she didn't appoint any of them, but her predecessor who she ran against did, and you act as if that is the same thing.

That is why so little of what the left says is believable; they make up a fact in one post, then when they are shown definitively that the 'fact' is incorrect, they still act as if it isn't. You are still delusional about this particular set of events.

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wrong, not all of the members were appointed by her predecessor. btw, if you'll read the article i posted above, it says that they are appointed by the governor, implying that she did it. either way, they are her people, and either way, it doesn't make this new investigation important. wow, what a surprise, her people found her innocent.

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ORIGINAL: Jhud

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wrong, not all of the members were appointed by her predecessor. btw, if you'll read the article i posted above, it says that they are appointed by the governor, implying that she did it. either way, they are her people, and either way, it doesn't make this new investigation important. wow, what a surprise, her people found her innocent.

Actually that was your assumption, because of your bias.

If you actually knew how to use google, you would have known the facts. From CNN:

Instead, Palin asked the Personnel Board -- an executive branch agency whose members were appointed by her predecessor -- to handle the investigation, arguing it was the proper legal venue.

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Some Democrats ridiculed the move, noting that the personnel board answered to Palin. But the board ended up hiring an aggressive Anchorage trial lawyer, Timothy Petumenos, as an independent counsel. McCain aides were chagrined to discover that Petumenos was a Democrat who had contributed to Palin's 2006 opponent for governor, Tony Knowles.

So again you are wrong.

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they weren't all appointed by her. you ignored that fact.

and as for petumenos, the board, made up of her people, is who hired him.

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ORIGINAL: Jhud

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they weren't all appointed by her. you ignored that fact.

and as for petumenos, the board, made up of her people, is who hired him.

You were the one who said they were all appointed by her.

And there is no evidence any of them were; and her predecessor who did hire them was in a bitter election against her, so there is no basis for the claim his appointments would favor her.

And they hired a Democrat who had opposed her.

Again, you started with a statement, it has been proven wrong, now you are just dissembling to cover the obvious error. It's pitiful.

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"Less than a week after balking at the Legislature's investigation into her alleged abuse of power, Gov. Sarah Palin on Monday indicated she will cooperate with a separate probe run by people she can fire."
http://www.adn.com/troopergate/story/534119.html

obviously they work for her, since she CAN FIRE THEM.

whither you like it or not, they are her people. and they are the ones who hired petumenos, and they are the ones who "cleared" her.

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ORIGINAL: Jhud

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"Less than a week after balking at the Legislature's investigation into her alleged abuse of power, Gov. Sarah Palin on Monday indicated she will cooperate with a separate probe run by people she can fire."
http://www.adn.com/troopergate/story/534119.html

obviously they work for her, since she CAN FIRE THEM.

whither you like it or not, they are her people. and they are the ones who hired petumenos, and they are the ones who "cleared" her.

Let's remember your statement:

"was made up of mostly republicans" - no evidence for this. the FIRST investigation was. that was my point. maybe you should re-read what i said

"she appointed that board. " - factually wrong. t's about half wrong, an honest mistake.

"whither you like it or not, they are her people. and they are the ones who hired petumenos, and they are the ones who "cleared" her. "

Again wrong. She couldn't fire Petumenos once he was hired, and he prepared the report, they didn't. he wasn't the ONLY one behind this report though, was he? it was him, along with her board, who hired him.

So again, you are continuing to make things up.

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i'm not making things up, you're twisting what i'm saying and taking things out of context in order to prove that this was a fair investigation, when it most likely wasn't.

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ORIGINAL: Jhud

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i'm not making things up, you're twisting what i'm saying and taking things out of context in order to prove that this was a fair investigation, when it most likely wasn't.

A contention you keep making even though it has been demonstrated repeatedly there is no basis for it.

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the logical side of me says that the wrong one is the one that was headed by her people.