Trooper-gate Everything you need to know.

The Sarah Palin Trooper-Gate saga has taken so many twists and turns lately that we decided it was worth taking a step back, to consider what we've learned to date, and what it might all amount to.

As regular readers of TPMmuckraker know, Trooper-Gate centers on allegations that Sarah Palin fired the former Alaska Public Safety Commissioner for his refusal to axe a state trooper who had undergone an ugly divorce from Palin's sister, and who was embroiled in a bitter feud with the Palin family. But as is so often the case when powerful figures are accused of wrongdoing, the effort to conceal what happened by Palin and Alaska Republicans, apparently with the aid of the McCain campaign, may be just as revealing as the original event.

The whole sordid tale started on July 13th, when the Anchorage Daily News -- which has been all over Trooper-Gate since the start -- reported that Walt Monegan, the state's respected public safety commissioner, had been fired without a clear explanation.

Within the week, Monegan came forward to allege that Palin had pressured him to fire a state trooper, Mike Wooten, who has been embroiled in a long-running dispute with the Palin family since his messy 2005 divorce from Palin's sister. Monegan's claim was backed up by the troopers' union, which, the day before Monegan came forward, released a file from its own 2005 internal investigation of Wooten -- initiated at the request of the Palins -- and charged that Wooten had been unfairly targeted by the Palin family. Palin immediately denied that anyone in her office had pressured Monegan to fire Wooten. A former U.S. attorney and ethics adviser that Palin had previously hired to oversee new financial-disclosure regulations for the Alaska state legislature wrote to Palin to advise her to simply "apologize" for "overreaching" in regards to Wooten.

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