Another Palin lie uncovered! She approved Walt Monegan's trip to Washington.

An internal government document obtained by ABC News appears to contradict Sarah Palin's most recent explanation for why she fired her public safety chief, the move which prompted the now-contested state probe into "Troopergate."

Fighting back against allegations she may have fired her then-Public Safety Commissioner, Walt Monegan, for refusing to go along with a personal vendetta, Palin on Monday argued in a legal filing that she fired Monegan because he had a "rogue mentality" and was bucking her administration's directives.

"The last straw," her lawyer argued, came when he planned a trip to Washington, D.C., to seek federal funds for an aggressive anti-sexual-violence program. The project, expected to cost from $10 million to $20 million a year for five years, would have been the first of its kind in Alaska, which leads the nation in reported forcible rape.

The McCain-Palin campaign echoed the charge in a press release it distributed Monday, concurrent with Palin's legal filing. "Mr. Monegan persisted in planning to make the unauthorized lobbying trip to D.C.," the release stated.

But the governor's staff authorized the trip, according to an internal travel document from the Department of Public Safety, released Friday in response to an open records request.

The document, a state travel authorization form, shows that Palin's chief of staff, Mike Nizich, approved Monegan's trip to Washington, D.C., "to attend meeting with Senator Murkowski." The date next to Nizich's signature reads June 18.

One by one the Palin lies fall.

And don't let us forget that Monegan went on that trip to get money to provide funds to protect victims of sexual assault. Governor Sarah's problem with funding any programs for victims of sexual assault or to teach children how to avoid sexual assault seems to form a pattern, as evidenced by her decision to charge rape victims for their medical exams. And the fact she cut funding for teenage moms. And of course her stance against teaching sex ed in public schools.

Palin's extreme version of Christian faith may have a lot to do with her twisted view of sexuality and create a fear that helping a victim of rape may in some way anger her God. Remember she does not believe in abortion, even for victims of rape or incest.

Of course we know that seeking these funds was not the REAL reason Walt Monegan was fired.