Malia Litman's explosive Secret Service expose hits the MSM.

So as a number of you are no doubt aware fellow blogger, and friend, Malia Litman has been doggedly pursuing stories about Secret Service malfeasance and scandalous behaviors.

Malia originally started her inquiries based on information she received from Shailey Tripp and it just exploded from there.

So here she is a number of years later and all of her hard work has now been vindicated.

According to The Dallas News this is just a portion of what she has uncovered: 

Here, though, are lowlights of behind-the-scenes mishaps of our vaunted Secret Service. 

• A culture of "wheels up; rings off" meant even married agents could party on foreign trips. 
• Secret Service K-9 units brought their dogs into their hotel room, which the dogs trashed. The agents made payoffs so the incident wouldn't be reported. 
• A agent who missed his flight later showed up drunk with two prostitutes. He was not disciplined. 
• Agents "engaged" with prostitutes in Amsterdam's red-light district during an advance team trip. 
• A supervisor choked a female subordinate because she rejected his sexual advances. 
• A supervisor offered a subordinate a larger office in return for sex. 
• A supervisor took a subordinate to a sex show while on duty. 
• A male agent's gun was stolen by a male prostitute he solicited online. The gun was never recovered. 
• A manager in the National Threat Assessment Center forced employees to drink alcohol in his office "so that he could trust them." The same manager was accused of multiple incidents of sexual harassment.

The article goes into more detail, but that right there is enough to take your breath away.

None of this information came easily and Malia spent $100,000 of her own money on legal fees to gain access to the documents which tell these troubling tales.

Which goes to show the kind of dedication it requires from citizen journalists to get to the truth, and then get that truth out to the American people.

All I can say is congratulations Malia! You do us proud!

Holiday greetings from the Palin gals.

Courtesy of the Mad Mama of the Mat-Su's Facebook page:  

Merry Christmas! I hope you had a joyous day and can keep the Christmas spirit alive in your heart and home all year long. Love from my girls and me. 

Okay so I have a confession to make.

I really tried with this most recent pregnancy NOT to go all conspiratorial.

After all not EVERYTHING these people do can be a lie, a manipulation, or a made up part of the family mythology. Right?

Right?

But then things started to happen.

First we had the whole question of "Who's the daddy?"  Which neither the Palins nor Dakota Meyer seemed interested in putting to rest. (Why would somebody just let that go on?)

Then we had all of these rumors that Bristol gave birth sometime in November. (No confirmation so could just be people talking on the internet.)

Next there was the fact that Bristol phoned in her participation during Tripp's child custody case. (Well there are legitimate reasons for this, besides hiding a recent birth. Right?)

That was followed by the birth, and the Grizzled Mama's Facebook page showing her holding the newborn which originated from New Orleans.

Posted by Sarah Palin on Thursday, December 24, 2015

WTF?

Now that has been followed by a post from our friend Malia Litman in which she called all of the area hospitals every day since December 11th and found that Bristol had NEVER been a patient at any of them.

I give up. Apparently EVERYTHING these people do is a lie, a manipulation, or made up part of the family mythology.

One of our bloggers wrote a book.

So Malia Litman, of Malia Litman's blog, has written a book.

I have not yet read it so I cannot give a full throated endorsement, but if you like Malia's writing on the blog then there is a good chance you will enjoy this as well.


I always like to promote books written by fellow bloggers or folks who are writing about Sarah Palin in factual manner.

Malia of course is both.

When scandals collide. A little vindication for Shailey Tripp.

I have been covering Shailey Tripp's story since early 2011. I even conducted the first on the record interview.

I followed numerous leads provided by Shailey, and even introduced her to Joe McGinniss, but could only get so far before I would hit a brick wall. The same has happened with others who have pursued the story of Shailey and Todd Palin.

That is not to say that what Shailey has claimed is not true, and in fact much of what she has said has been supported by facts. Just that there were numerous obstacles placed in the way of anybody who tried to dig too far into the story.

So after many of the leads grew cold I moved onto other topics and other sources, while Malia Litman and other bloggers took the lead on Shailey's story.

However just recently new information that lends new credibility to Shailey's amazing story has emerged.

You might remember this from that Anchorage Press article:  

A former pornography company owner and co-founder of an “end times” fundamentalist group who joined the Alaska National Guard in 2003 is now the guard’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Training, despite military investigators finding him directly responsible for empowering Alaska guard recruiters to sexually assault and harass female soldiers, recruits and civilians. 

Lt. Col. Joseph R. Lawendowski, 46, was recommended for “other than honorable” discharge in a confidential report that military investigators submitted to high-ranking Alaska National Guard officers on March 3 of this year. The findings of this “AR 15-6” report were not released to the public. (AR 15-6 refers to Army Regulation 15-6, covering the investigation of misconduct by officers.) 

The March 3 report finds that Lawendowski failed to act on multiple complaints of serious misconduct, including sexual assault, against four senior noncommissioned officers under his command. The report covers the period from November 2007 to May 2012 when Lawendowski was commander of the Alaska Army National Guard Recruiting and Retention Battalion (RRB). 

What is interesting is that Lawendowski's name popped up over a year ago in an online archive of  information about Shailey Tripp's case.  Specifically right here:

Joseph Lawendowski 

- several men under his command saw Shailey Tripp for sexual services
 - knows Todd Palin through the Iron Dog.

That last part is confirmed a little further down in the Anchorage Press article:

The investigators also found that Lawendowski had condoned and furthered illegal steroid use by RRB personnel, and had violated National Guard codes of conduct on multiple occasions. These included using government vehicles for outings to strip clubs, and Lawendowski being publicly intoxicated at the 2012 Iron Dog Race after-party. (Lawendowski arranged for the Alaska National Guard to become the presenting sponsor of the Iron Dog snowmobile race beginning in 2010. According to the AR 15-6 report, he improperly exchanged more than 10,000 text messages with a female Iron Dog employee during sponsorship negotiations in April and May 2010.)

A connection to Shailey Tripp AND to the Iron Dog?

Look I am not one who does not think that coincidences are possible, but THIS one?

How could Shailey possibly know the name of a Lieutenant Colonel in the Alaska National Guard, who coincidentally once owned a porno company, was directly responsible for some of the sexual assault happening under his command, frequented strip clubs, AND had a connection to the Iron Dog race, if not through Todd Palin?

If any of you have a better answer I am certainly interested in hearing it.

Malia Litman is coming to Anchorage on Saturday January 22nd, to promote her new book and meet the people who know Sarah Palin best. Her fellow Alaskans.

Here is Malia's press release:

Making a Difference in Anchorage

Alaskans are the people who seem to know Sarah Palin best, and object to her most. Democrats, Independents, and Republicans are each susceptible to PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome). Hope is coming to Alaska . Malia Litman, blogger at malialitman.wordpress.com and author of The Ignorance Virtues of Sarah Palin: A Humorous Refudiation of the Half-Term Ex-Governor will be at Borders at 1100 E. Dimond Blvd , Anchorage on Sat. Jan. 22nd at 2:00. Malia will give a presentation and sign books, guaranteed to provide much needed relief for PDS. If you are one of the unfortunate Americans afflicted with this disability , come to Borders on Saturday. Together we can find comfort and therapeutic relief for our ailment.

Please join Malia.

I had the pleasure of personally meeting Malia during Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" in Washington D.C.. As Malia wrote at the time we had a wonderful dinner, shared some blogging anecdotes, and I dished about some heretofore unknown information about Sister Sarah. Good times.

I encourage everybody to take the time to visit Ms. Litman at the Anchorage Borders, and to let her know how much you enjoy her blog and to pick yourself up an autographed copy of this very humorous book.

I imagine I will be able to make some time to stop on by myself just to say hi, so perhaps I will see some of you there.