Lawyers and Republican aides acting on behalf of Sarah Palin are engaged in a fierce legal battle to block an inquiry into the so-called troopergate affair, in which the vice-presidential candidate is accused of abusing her public office to wage a vendetta against her former brother-in-law. The bipartisan panel of the Alaskan state legislature in charge of the inquiry is ...

You can read it all here (PDF file), but here are the crucial paragraphs from the independent investigation into Sarah Palin's attempts to persuade Alaska's police chief, Walter Monegan, to fire her brother-in-law, a state trooper, and her subsequent firing of Monegan: More follows...