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California Rep. Darrell Issa, ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is asking questions about claims by Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) that the White House offered him an administration job not to challenge turncoat Sen. Arlen Specter in this year's Pennsylvania Democratic primary. Jake Sherman of Politico reports:
[I]n a letter to White House general counsel Robert Bauer Wednesday, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said that, if Sestak's allegation is true, administration officials may have violated a federal statute which makes it a crime for a government employee to use his authority "for the purpose of interfering with, or affecting, the nomination or the election of any candidate" for certain offices, including Senate seats.
"While the White House may think this is politics as usual, what is spectacularly unusual is when a candidate - a U.S. congressman no less - freely acknowledges such a proposal," Issa wrote. "Almost always candidates keep quiet about such deals, and for good reason - they are against the law."
Issa posed a series of specific questions, among other things asking whether White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel or his deputy Jim Messina had talked to Sestak about the Senate campaign. As John Gizzi of Human Events reports, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs has repeatedly evaded questions about Sestak's accusation.
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Ret. Marine| 3.11.10 @ 6:48AM
I would not put anything pass this usurper-in-cheif little barry, one question I have though, where's the fricken investigation?
Spartan| 3.11.10 @ 11:26PM
Great question, Ret. Marine! My guess is they are going to take their time answering, unless the infamous "investigative reporters" ramp it up. An even better answer is if this were a republican administration ..... the left congressional caucus and their MSM minions would be screaming bloody murder by now. That's all you would be hearing about. It is obvious, that the important thing now is to get their tyrannical linchpin in place, called health care, so that they may proceed with the "transformation of America".
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JAS| 3.11.10 @ 11:41AM
We have Chicago thugery in the WH. There has never before in our history been a more evil and corrupt administration and party. The democ-rats have become communist to the extent that for the last decade CPUSA (the American communist party) has been endorsing them and admonishing their membership to vote for the commiecrats.
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loupgarous| 3.12.10 @ 9:36PM
One thing is for sure, the Justice Department under Eric Holder will never investigate whether or not his boss violated the law - or he'll hand the investigation off to the same guy who opined that ACORN was entitled to federal funding after Congress specifically said they were not.
Eric Holder is to John Mitchell as Rahm Emmanuel is to Hugo Haldeman as Barack Hussein Obama is to Richard Milhous Nixon. Major ethical problems all over the place, soi-disant "liberals" ignoring them studiously.
I guess all that moral caterwauling during Watergate was partisan rhetoric, after all. We need a Fred Dalton Thompson in the White House to clean all this up, the way he helped Sam Ervin do it during Watergate. Thompson doesn't seem to have the problems with ethics as the Most Transparent Administration Ever does.
Patricia Lewis| 3.13.10 @ 7:59PM
I think an irate populace needs to descend on Washington, DC.
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