From today’s Anchor­age Daily News:

Gov. Sarah Palin’s lawyer, Thomas Van Flein, made an absurd threat in his battle to get the Leg­is­la­ture to back off its ethics inves­ti­ga­tion of the gov­er­nor and her staff.

Van Flein said leg­isla­tive inves­ti­ga­tor Steve Branch­flower tried to call First Gen­tle­man Todd Palin directly on “a secure and con­fi­den­tial line. This rep­re­sents a seri­ous secu­rity breach that we may be oblig­ated to report to the Secret Service.”

Hello? Branch­flower is acting on behalf of the Leg­is­la­ture. That’s a secu­rity breach?

Lawyers are sup­posed to vig­or­ously rep­re­sent their clients, but claim­ing that a leg­isla­tive investigator’s phone call may be a secu­rity matter worthy of Secret Ser­vice atten­tion is ridiculous.