Posted by
Always To The Right on Sunday, September 14, 2008 2:13:39 PM
Amanda Carpenter
noted a curious exchange in the Alaskan legislature committee hearing
regarding subpoenas in the investigation into “Troopergate”. The lead
investigator, who was supposed to act as an independent agent in the
probe, testified that Democrat Hollis French had overruled him on his
subpoena list and struck a witness he wanted to interview
Branchflower then explained that he had submitted Tibbles’ name for
a subpoena, only to have it removed by French. He could provide no
explanation why French, who has endorsed Barack Obama, would have
denied him a subpoena to interview the man who conducted the meeting in question.
As both Democrats and Republicans pressed Branchflower to explain this
omission, French himself interjected that he didn’t see a “political
will” for the subpoena.
Clearly, this interference demonstrates the partisan nature of this
inquiry. Why would the state of Alaska subpoena all of the attendees
of a meeting but neglect to subpoena the man who called and ran the
meeting? If the “political will” did not exist to question Tibbles,
then why would it exist to subpoena the other participants in this
meeting?
For some reason, French doesn’t want the committee to hear what
Tibbles has to say about this meeting. Even beyond that question,
though, French’s interference shows that this investigation is neither
independent nor apolitical. French has been caught manipulating
subpoenas for a predetermined outcome of this case. That strongly
indicates that French doesn’t have much of a case, and feels the need
to distort it for his own political reasons.