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That’s right.  The “whistleblowers” North Dakota’s liberals have been actively defending for months now - who people like Joel Heitkamp have all but lionized as martyrs - were rightfully terminated according to Grand Forks County state’s attorney Peter Welte:

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) A prosecutor says criminal charges are not justified for the firings of two North Dakota workers compensation agency employees.

Grand Forks County State’s Attorney Peter Welte reviewed an investigation into the firings at the state Workforce Safety and Insurance Agency.

Former WSI chief of support services Jim Long and former fraud investigator Todd Flanagan said they were fired because they called attention to possible wrongdoing at the agency.

North Dakota law forbids a state agency to retaliate against a worker for reporting possible misuse of taxpayer resources.

Welte said it appears the firings can be traced to other reasons besides the whistleblower reports from Long and Flanagan.

Those “other reasons,” at least as far as Democrat legislative candidate Jim Long and Billi Peltz are concerned, have to do with inappropriate conduct in the work place up to and including romantic touching on the job.  It’s too bad not one single media outlet in North Dakota has seen fit to publish this bit if exculpatory reality.

According to liberal Democrats in the state - as well as most of the state’s media - WSI is/was a den of corruption where worker claims were wrongfully terminated and the WSI employees who tried to expose the corruption were fired for speaking out.  Now not one but two independent audits by nationally-recognized firms have found no evidence of fraud or corruption at WSI, and a state prosecutor has found nothing illegal in the termination of the WSI “whistleblowers.”

Thus ending the ND Democrats’ #1 campaign issue for the 2008 election cycle.