In his latest story on the so-called “Troopergate” scandal (background here), the Washington Post‘s James V. Grimaldi reports a false statement made by state trooper Mike Wooten, Sarah Palin’s ex-brother-in-law, as if it were a fact. Grimaldi writes that Wooten “contradicted Palin’s statement that she overheard him in 2005 threaten her father during an argument with Palin’s younger sister, Molly McCann, Wooten’s wife at the time. Wooten noted that an internal investigation failed to sustain the death-threat allegation.” But according to the Anchorage Daily News, the internal investigation did sustain the death-threat allegation:
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