Interesting Perspective on Troopergate

From Donald Craig Mitchell, an attorney in Anchorage.

So how did Attorney General Colberg, the chief law enforcement officer of the State of Alaska, respond to the subpoenas?

In a letter to Hollis French dated September 16 Talis first noted that the state employees who had been subpoenaed (who he characterized as his “clients”) were in an “untenable position” because “the Governor [i.e., Sarah Palin] has so strongly stated that the subpoenas issued by your committee are of questionable validity.” He then asked Hollis to withdraw the subpoenas and thereby “relieve” his “clients” from "the circumstance of having to choose where their loyalties lie.” He then concluded by announcing that if the subpoenas were not withdrawn “our clients will not appear in response to the subpoenas until either the Alaska Senate or the full Alaska Legislature convenes to issue a resolution requiring their presence before the appropriate legislative committee.”

In the puffery that has morphed into outright lying about Sarah Palin’s qualifications to be the Vice President of the United States even the McCain campaign has not suggested that Alaska’s governor-girl is an attorney. So what qualifications does an ersatz hockey mom and former small town mayor bring to the task of evaluating the legal validity of subpoenas that have been issued by a committee of the Alaska Legislature?