The media has finally dug up that commissioner of public safety Palin canned in Alaska and he says she’s being less than honest about why she fired him.

The fired Alaskan official, whose dismissal has become the subject of a state senate committee’s investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin, has told ABC News that she has not been entirely truthful on the matter.

In a telephone interview Wednesday, Walt Monegan, the former Alaskan Public Safety Commissioner, said he was dismissed because he refused to fire the Governor’s former brother-in-law, a state trooper.

“I believe I was fired because of, primarily the reason of her former brother-in-law,” Monegan said. “I think that my unwillingness to take special action against her former brother-in-law was not well received.”

Monegan says he believes that the Governor has not told the truth about what happened.

“I think there are some questions now that, coming to light about how transparent and how honest she wants to be,” Monegan said.

First, let’s remember that the position Monegan held is essentially a member of the Governor of Alaska’s cabinet.  It’s an appointed position, and he serves at the pleasure of the Governor.  If the commissioner isn’t doing what the governor wants, he’s gone.  The Governor doesn’t, or shouldn’t, need a reason.

Second, let’s remember that the Trooper Palin got fired was a bad cop.  From Wikipedia:

On March 1, 2006, Wooten was notified of the results of an Alaska State Trooper internal investigation. The probe found that Wooten violated internal policy, but not the law, in making the death threat against Heath (the father of Sarah Palin and Molly McCann).[7] Wooten denied having made the threat, but the investigation decided that he had in fact done so. [7] The trooper investigation concluded that the death threat was not a crime because Wooten did not threaten the father directly; therefore, the investigator deemed the threat to be a violation of trooper policy rather than a violation of criminal law.[12]

The Alaska State Trooper internal investigation also found that Wooten had violated both Alaska law and Alaska State Trooper policy in shooting a moose: he had been out hunting with McCann and had shot the animal himself even though their permit was in McCann’s name only.[7] According to subsequent news reports, McCann had obtained the permit but balked at killing the moose herself, so she handed the gun to her then-husband, who shot the animal.[13]

Wooten was also found to have violated department policy in using a Taser on his then 10-year old stepson; he told investigators that he did so “in a training capacity” after the child had asked to be tased in order to show his cousin, Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol, that he “wasn’t a mama’s boy”.[6][7] The investigation initially cleared Wooten on all of the drunk-driving charges,[7] but Grimes subsequently overturned that result and found that Wooten had driven while drunk on one occasion, violating both the law and internal trooper policy.[14]

In summary: This guy is a drunk.  A child abuser who, as a cop, was calling up people and issuing death threats.  So, at worst, Sarah Palin is guilty of using her power as Governor to get a bad cop fired.

Period.