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The story of Sarah Palin and her brother-in-law, the trooper
Sunday, August 31, 2008, 12:49 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Today’s Washington Post has the first extended take — at least in the lower 48 — of that investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin, now the GOP vice presidential nominee, pressured her underlings to fire an Alaskan state trooper who was married to her sister.

Writes the Post:

The trouble between Wooten and the governor’s sister broke into the open after an alleged incident in February 2005. Palin told an internal affairs investigator that she overheard on a speakerphone [trooper Michael] Wooten arguing with her sister and threatening to kill their father. Fearful for her family members’ lives, Palin said she drove to her sister’s house and watched the argument through a window.

“Wooten’s words were, ‘I will kill him. He’ll eat a [expletive] lead bullet, I’ll shoot him,’ if our father got the attorney to help Molly,” Palin said in an e-mail she wrote in August 2005 to the chief of the state police. “I heard this death threat, my 16-year-old son heard it (Track Palin), Molly heard it, as did their small children. Wooten spoke with his Trooper gun on his hip in an extremely intimidating fashion, leaving no doubt he is serious about taking someone’s life who disagrees with him.”

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