Palin — guilty in Troopergate

That’s the official verdict of the newspaper of record, who doesn’t fall for Sarah Palin’s line that “Andrew Halcro made me do it.”

Here’s the nut graf:

An examination of the case, based on interviews with (former Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Walt) Monegan and several top aides, indicates that, to a far greater degree than was previously known, the governor, her husband and her administration pressed the commissioner and his staff to get Trooper Wooten off the force, though without directly ordering it. …

“To all of us, it was a campaign to get rid of him as a trooper and, at the very least, to smear the guy and give him a desk job somewhere,” said Kim Peterson, Mr. Monegan’s special assistant, who like several other aides spoke publicly about the matter for the first time.

The rest of the story goes on to look at all the different excuses Mayor Whazzup and First Dumbass have offered for pushing Monegan out.