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But, the Anchorage Daily News reported that an Alaska drug investigator said politics interfered with the case.
In a Dec. 30 e-mail to members of the Public Safety Employee's Association, the union that represents state troopers, Kyle Young, a trooper involved in the case, said that "as soon as investigators realized who the target was ... this case became anything but normal."
He claims that police delayed serving a search warrant on Johnston because of the election. The e-mail also says that although Johnston was not under Secret Service protection when her son Levi was in the house, he and other members of the family were under its protection.
Masters said in a written statement today, "the accusations that political motives were behind the decision on how to manage this case are baseless."
He said Palin's office was not notified of the investigation until Johnston was arrested and that she was only contacted because of the "inevitable media frenzy that would ensue" because of Palin's family connection with Johnston.
John Cyr, the union director, said the union was standing by Young. "We absolutely believe that Kyle's version is scrupulously true," he said.
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