I have made two files available. The first is the Full Report (click here). The second is the Abbreviated Report (click here). The Abbreviated Report contains only those sections that seem relevant to the outcome of the 2008 presidential election in that the information therein may sway some undecided voters. The parts I selected for the Abbreviated Version do not indicate that I have an opinion about this issue.

Some may protest that I only included the negative findings, citing the portions where Palin was not found to have violated ethics legislation. These sections wouldn't be relevant to the election, however. Consider that the other three candidates have not been found to violate any ethics legislation recently. Voters expect that Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates adhere to ethics legislation as a rule, not as an exception.

Also, if you are privy to any information not included in the report, I encourage you to forward this information to the Alaskan Legislature because they will be greatly interested in it. You may help them revise their findings. I should advise you that accusations of Council partisanship probably won't hold much weight with the ten Republicans and four Democrats on the Legislative Council.

Accusations against other candidates will probably not affect the Council's findings either. I encourage you to send those accusations to the US Senate where the other three candidates are currently employed. The US Senate may investigate your accusations if such accusations have merit and are not simply fueled by partisan anger.

If you feel other parts of the full report might be relevant to the outcome of the 2008 presidential election, please tell me what those might be and why you think they are relevant and I will consider including them in the Abbreviated Version.

Disclaimer

You are encouraged to read the Full Report and to decide for yourself how you feel about this issue. These documents comprise the entirety of public knowledge on the issue. Only the investigator Stephen Branchflower, the Alaskan Legislative Council, and persons listed in the report are privy to additional relevant information. If you read this report, your opinion will be as informed as any pundit's or public figure's opinion.

The fact that I have made these files available does not indicate that I have an opinion about the information within them. Ten Republicans and four Democrats of the Alaskan State Legislature approved these findings and voted to make this information publicly available. I am simply hosting it here as per my right and responsibility as a proud citizen of the United States of America. If you like or dislike the Council's decision to make this information available, I encourage you to write them with your approval or grievance as you see fit. Please neither blame nor credit me for the findings of the Alaskan Legislative Council of ten Republicans and four Democrats.