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Published on: 9/4/2008
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The only smoking gun so far in Troopergate is the recorded telephone call by a Palin aide, Frank Bailey, to Lt.
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In that call, Bailey asked a pointed question about the continued employment of Mike Wooten, the trooper who divorced Palin's sister, Molly McCann.
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Bailey asked.
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During the call, Bailey appeared privy to information from Wooten's confidential personnel files.
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Bailey later told the Legislature's investigator, Stephen Branchflower, that he'd received the information from the governor's husband.
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Three-and-a-half hours after the last call, the first of 10 e-mails begin to fly among Frye, the governor, Todd Palin, Bailey, Administration Commissioner Annette Kreitzer, Deputy Chief of Staff Randy Ruaro and Palin aide Kris Perry.
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"There was a serious, genuine concern about not only their safety, but the safety of their family, their kids, their nieces, nephews, her father, regarding Trooper Wooten," Bailey said in his deposition.