Alaska lawmakers review Palin trooper report

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNN) - Alaska lawmakers spent hours behind closed doors Friday reviewing a report on Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of her public safety commissioner, who says he was sacked for resisting pressure to fire the governor's ex-brother-in-law.

The bipartisan Legislative Council spent more than six hours in executive session discussing the report from former Anchorage prosecutor Stephen Branchflower ahead of its scheduled release. Before the executive session began, Rep. Peggy Wilson, a Republican member of the council, said the total report ran about 1,000 pages.

Occasional predictions by lawmakers entering and leaving the room of another hour or two proved overly optimistic - and by mid-afternoon, legislative aides were bringing granola bars to reporters in hallways outside.