Last night, David Kurtz (nee TPM's Reader DK) noted that the New York State Police demoted a 28-year veteran detective following the pre-election leak of a police report detailing a 9-1-1 domestic disturbance call from the house of Rep. John Sweeney (R-NY). Sweeney's attorney insists he was the guy who leaked the police report to the press.

So Sweeney got his retribution, it would seem. But he should have been warned -- whom the gods would destroy, they first make angry. And this morning, the story just turned sharply against Sweeney: This morning, the Albany Times-Union reports that the State Police may have faked a vague version of the original police report filed from the incident, to protect Sweeney in case the document became public:

State Police took steps to "lock up" a 911 report about a call to Congressman John Sweeney's home last year by creating an alternate version that lacked key details, an informed source said Thursday.

The full report on the domestic incident was concealed because of concern it could be used against Sweeney during his re-election campaign this fall, the source said.

Since the emergency call did not result in any arrest -- Sweeney and his wife, Gaia, called off the alert -- State Police officials created a less specific version to guard against leaks of the original, according to the source.

When Rep. John Sweeney (R-NY) announced there there'd be a press conference today, expectations were high that he was going to finally release that promised "authentic" police report. You know, the one that would disprove all those news accounts which said an officer was called to his house because he was knocking his wife around.

Alas, he's not giving up the document. Instead, he's starting his own investigation into who "leaked" the "false" records. From The Albany Times-Union:

E. Stewart Jones apologized to TU reporter Brendan J. Lyons, who is over at Jones’ office in Troy, saying he has no documents to release today.

The news, Jones said, is that he has been hired by the Sweeney campaign to investigate who leaked police records related to the Dec. 2, 2005 911 call by GOP U.S. Rep. John Sweeney’s wife, Gaia/Gayle, that summoned State Police to a domestic incident at the couple’s Clifton Park home.

It's not entirely clear, but it sounds as though Sweeney's no longer contesting the integrity of the police reports cited in news accounts.

Sweeney has said that recent reports of police documents showing he abused his wife were forgeries, and that he'd consent to releasing the originals so they could see they'd been duped. But for over a day and a half, he's declined to sign the official order to allow those docs to be made public.

As TPM readers no doubt know, The New York Daily News and Albany Times-Union both published accounts earlier this week of a police blotter report that showed that an officer had been called to the Sweeneys home in December of last year on a domestic abuse call. Sweeney's wife allegedly told a 9-1-1 dispatcher that he was "knocking her around the house," and when an officer arrived, he was told that Sweeney had "grabbed [his wife] by the neck and pushed [her] around the house," but that everything was fine now.

Sweeney responded to the report by claiming that the blotter report was forged. But oddly, the Sweeneys did confirm that there had been a 9-1-1 call -- but that nothing like what's alleged in the blotter report happened.

There's a very clear way to get to the truth, of course: the police could release the official report. To do that, all they need is a signed and notarized letter from the Sweeneys. Now, Sweeney has said that he would authorize the police to release the report. But somehow, despite the fact that numerous news organizations have offered to facilitate the process, Sweeney just hasn't gotten around to sending the police that letter.

And more than 24 hours after his promise to release the report, we're all still waiting.