BREAKING in the Troopergate Fiasco: Gov. Palin is Exonerated

The Anchorage Daily News is reporting:

The state Personnel Board-sanctioned investigation is the second into whether Palin violated state ethics law in firing her public safety commissioner, and it contradicts the earlier findings by a special counsel hired by the state Legislature.

Both investigations found that Palin was within her rights to fire Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.

But the new report says the Legislature’s investigator was wrong to conclude that Palin abused her power by allowing aides and her husband, Todd, to pressure Monegan and others to dismiss her ex-brother-in-law, Trooper Mike Wooten. Palin was accused of firing Monegan after Wooten stayed on the job…(more)

Common sense prevails – a bit late, according to Ed Morrissey, of HotAir:

It’s probably too late to address the political damage done by the partisan hack job from the legislature, but at least it will correct the record….Monegan won’t get a hearing from the Personnel Board to “clear his reputation”. Where does Palin go to clear hers after this tempest in a teapot? (more)

Hat-Tip, Sadiq Green