The pre-emptive tactic gives the governor a distinct advantage in the controversy because it means that she already knows at the outset the detailed accounts of potential witnesses against her… In the depositions, Bailey says that the governor never asked him to do anything regarding Wooten. Palin and her husband, said Bailey, expressed “serious genuine concern about not only their safety but the safety of their family, their kids, their nieces, nephews, her father, regarding trooper Wooten.” Bailey’s answers to Van Flein’s questions were consistent with the account Bailey told The AP last month.