TrooperGate Won’t Go Away: Palin Punk’d By Her Own Document

How do you know Sarah Palin is lying?

Just when it seemed the Alaska investigation into Gov. Sarah Palin’s firing of a state official might have been scuttled by the pressures of presidential politics, another turn of events has kept it going.

Palin has maintained that she fired Monegan not over the status of Trooper Mike Wooten, but over budget disagreements – specifically a trip Monegan planned to Washington which she said was unauthorized.

However, Palin’s chief of staff did authorize the travel to Washington.

A travel authorization document signed by Palin’s Chief of Staff Mike Nizich on June 18 approved Monegan’s trip to Washington for the purpose of meeting Sen. Lisa Murkowski.

When she’s moving her lips.

Ian broke this yesterday. And there’s more here.

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