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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTe7is-80j8

Palin: The report that came out also was very clear in that there was no unethical or unlawful behavior on my part. … No abuse of power there at all.

Watch the video. No parsing, no clarification. Just a blanket statement that is at odds with the first finding of the report.

When spindoctors get stuck on “who said what, when” they are trying to make the public forget the original transgression. Let’s not forget that officers of the law are there to protect everyone. Who would be running for any kind of office if they and their families must give up their rights as citizens, in order to serve?

You clearly want to believe she’s a liar.

I will give her the benefit of the doubt because:
a. I don’t know her state of mind.
b. It’s clear she hasn’t read the report and she’s trying to answer to the best of her ability.
c. The conclusion of the investigator regarding abuse of power is very, very thin. i.e. I think it’s crap.

So thanks for your comments. There is no need for you to disparage Palin here any further.

The reporter asks her if she’s read the entire report (in context it appears that the reporter is asking her to clarify her statement that the report clears her). There is no response to this question – so it’s an open question whether or not the governor has read the report.

Second, your posts said:

“Her initial sentence said that she was cleared of any wrongdoing, and then one or two sentences later she clarifies that she was cleared of wrongdoing regarding the firing.”

and

“When she later refers to being cleared…. well that’s exactly what I’m talking about. She later clarifies that she is referring to no wrongdoing in the Monagan firing.”

The sentence where she says she has been cleared is the *last* sentence of her response to the question about whether she thought she did anything wrong.

There is no clarification of what she has been cleared of after that.

The next question is about the perception of partisanship in the investigation and the final questions are about the civility of the McCain/Palin campaign.

She makes a blanket statement – which is directly at odds with the first finding of the report she refers to – and makes no clarifying statements afterwords.

Third – even accepting the notion that Gov. Palin was parsing her statement tighter than the transcript shows, she would be “picking and choosing” which finding she chooses to feel vindicated about.

Were she to do this (and she did not) she would be making a blanket statement (“cleared of any legal wrongdoing”) about finding #2 of the report, in response to a specific question about finding #1. In the absence of a follow up – this leaves the public with the impression that she believes she has not been found to have done anything illegal.

And she has.

Whether she’s answering with a demonstrably false statement – or a cynically parsed one that avoids a direct question and leaves the public with a false impression, it’s pretty shameful behavior.

With Gov. Palin, night is day – apparently.

That said – it is unlikely in the extreme that this ethical violation will be prosecuted. Findings are one thing, but proof in a court of law is much harder to establish – especially in the absence of documents like financial records.

The consequence of violating the law Gov. Palin was found to have broken is a misdemeanor and the immediate resignation of her state office.

A current reading of the tea leaves suggests the Governor will serve out her term.

ADN: Governor, finding No.1 on the report was that you abused your power by violating state law. Do you think you did anything wrong at all in this Troopergate case?

Palin: Not at all and I’ll tell you, it, I think that you’re always going to ruffle feathers as you do what you believe is in the best interest of the people whom you are serving. In this case I knew that I had to have the right people in the right position at the right time in this cabinet to best serve Alaskans, and Walt Monegan was not the right person at the right time to meet the goals that we had set out in our administration. So no, not having done anything wrong, and again very much appreciating being cleared of any legal wrongdoing or unethical activity at all.

It appears from the reading of the transcript that when this statement was made, Palin hadn’t yet read the report. So she’s going on her understanding of it, which is that the firing of Monagan was not deemed improper.

“So no, not having done anything wrong, and again very much appreciating being cleared of any legal wrongdoing or unethical activity at all.”

in response to a question on finding number 1 (that she abused her power in office).

I’ll repost that:

“…very much appreciating being cleared of any legal wrongdoing or unethical activity at all.”

That is a categorical statement.

I see no clarification of that answer or walkback in anything that follows that answer. If you can find one in the transcript, please post it.