Troopergate Report: Sarah Palin "Unlawfully Abused Her Authority"

The report is out, and the result is very bad for self-described pit-bull-with-lipstick Sarah Palin. Although the text isn't available yet, MSNBC reports that the report says Palin "abused her power" in securing the firing of a state official for refusing to fire a state trooper who is the ex-husband of her sister by pressuring subordinates to get her former brother-in-law, a state trooper, fired.

UPDATE: Details of the report are here. Palin is found to have violated "violated the state's executive branch ethics act, which says that 'each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust.'" This is a bipartisan report, and it essentially says that although Palin's claims that her brother-in-law had nothing to do with her firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monhegan are completely false says (among other things) that although Palin was within her powers in firing Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan (which she could do for any reason or for no reason at all), his failure to fire the state trooper was a substantial factor in Monegan's firing, thus contradicting Palin's repeated claims that firing Monegan had nothing to do with her former brother-in-law.

2nd UPDATE: Text of the report here [.pdf].