Former President Clinton, by his own admission, appears to have committed another felony, by violating a crime he signed into law. Formerly convicted of perjury, President Clinton’s assertions of integrity and honesty are going to be dubious and circumspect; however, according to 18 USC 600, if a ‘job’ or ‘position’ is offered to entice a candidate to drop out of a race you have committed a crime and an impeachable offence.
President Obama’s White House is agreeing with Clinton’s implausible story of offering Congressman Sestak a ‘nonpaying position’ for dropping out of the Senate seat primary race against Arlen Specter, at least that is the story for the time being. The Obama White House has a tendency to alter a story for political advantage; however, the stakes are much higher, this time Obama is scrambling for political survival rather than advantage.
The Democrats have offered a weak defense by arguing that it is done all the time; yet if it is done all the time and is an accepted practice, why was there a law passed to prevent the practice?
Congressman Issa R CA, ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is calling for an investigation by either the FBI or the Justice Department. Since Attorney General Holder functions more as a political hack instead of an Attorney General, Issa’s request to the Justice Department is rhetorical and only serves to illustrate the corruption among some of the nation’s highest office holders.
Congressman Issa:
If they offered a job, it’s a crime, it’s clearly a crime. What the White House is now saying happened, falls under the statute.
President Obama issued a two page report on Friday, after calls from Republicans and Democrats for an explanation concerning Sestak’s allegation that he was offered a job to pull out of the race and allow Arlen Specter to have the Democratic nomination. The report conceded the fact that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel
enlisted the support
of Former President Clinton, who acted as a go between with Sestak, on Thursday President Obama curiously opined that there was
nothing improper
concerning his personal conduct in the issue.
White House lawyer Robert F. Bauer, wrote in the report that the job offered was a nonpaying, advisory board position in the executive branch and that accusations of improper conduct by the administration
rest on factual error and lack a basis in the law
The ambiguity of this phrase as a response implies more guilt than it relieves. The report stresses the fact that the White House had no direct contact with Congressman Sestak, as if this fact was relevant for absolving guilt.
Congressman Sestak maintains that he had only one phone call from Clinton lasting over a period of two months, one of the longest phone conversations on record. In a written record by Sestak, a former Rear Admiral and unfortunately for whom honesty is supposed to be foremost and above all else in the code for an officer and a gentleman, relates his story of the job offer.
During the course of the conversation, he expressed concern over my prospects if I were to enter the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate and the value of having me stay in the House of Representatives because of my military background, He said that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel had spoken with him about my being on a presidential board while remaining in the House.
Mr. Sestak wrote that he was unsure,
whether it was the right thing to do for Pennsylvania working families.
Trying to be a down home politician without the talent and intellect is proving to be the undoing of Sestak and of the White House; during a Capitol Hill press conference, Sestak admitted he thought the offer was illegal.
The question is whether Obama has consolidated his authoritarian control over the FBI and the Justice Department well enough to prevent the commission of an investigation and justice. The next few weeks will enable the American people to see how much power and control Obama has usurped and whether America still functions under the rule of law.
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