What happened to the Candidate who promised to stop corruption and “change” the way Washington did business? Instead the corruption and smoke and mirrors is worse than it ever has been and the “change” is destroying the very foundation our Country is built on… and the White Spin is unprecedented!!
White House Asked Bill Clinton to Urge Congressman Sestak to Drop Out of Senate Race
Turns out fellow Progressive and form President Clinton offered Sestak a senior position in the Obama administration that could not have been done without Obama’s knowledge. It is both despicable another and a Federal misdemeanor.
The White House asked former President Bill Clinton to talk to Rep. Joe Sestak about the possibility of obtaining a senior position in the Obama administration if he would drop out of the Democratic primary race against establishment-backed Sen. Arlen Specter, the Obama administration will say in a report to be released Friday morning, Fox News has confirmed.
The report, by the White House Counsel's office, will describe the Clinton conversations as informal and unhinged from any precise job offer since, as a former president, Clinton could not guarantee Sestak anything.
The conversations with Sestak were initiated by Clinton at the behest of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel was Clinton's political director when he was president. Clinton promoted Sestak to vice admiral and made his director of defense policy. Sestak was a loyal and tireless supporter of Hillary Clinton's run for the presidency in 2008.
The report will be released one day after President Obama said the White House would issue a formal explanation that should answer questions about Sestak's allegation and insisted "nothing improper" happened. On the same day, Clinton had lunch with Obama.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has also said nothing improper happened, but refused to elaborate when asked repeatedly about the charge at Thursday's briefing.
Sestak, who did not drop out and won the race against Specter last week, repeated his allegation in an interview on Sunday, but also declined to elaborate.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who has been leading the charge for more details on the allegation, said he hopes Obama's pending response "will detail what conversations were had with Congressman Sestak."
At the behest of the White House, former President Bill Clinton urged Rep. Joe Sestak to drop out of a Senate primary, according to a White House report. (AP)
(Full Aricle) The White House asked former President Bill Clinton to talk to Rep. Joe Sestak about the possibility of obtaining a senior position in the Obama administration if he would drop out of the Democratic primary race against establishment-backed Sen. Arlen Specter, the Obama administration said in a report released Friday morning.
But the report, by White House Counsel Robert Bauer, concluded that "allegations of improper conduct rest on factual errors and lack a basis in the law."
Batting down allegations that the White House dangled the secretary of Navy position in front of Sestak, the report said that Sestak was offered executive branch positions on advisory boards that were uncompensated.
One of the jobs Clinton specifically discussed with Sestak was the president's intelligence advisory board. But a White House official said the plan always was for Sestak to remain in the House, and he couldn't have served in the House and on the president's intelligence advisory board.
The report also described the Clinton conversations as informal and not tied to any precise job offer since, as a former president, Clinton could not guarantee Sestak anything.
Clinton initiated conversations with Sestakat the behest of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who was Clinton's political director when he was president. As president, Clinton promoted Sestak to vice admiral and made him his director of defense policy. Sestak was also a loyal and tireless supporter of Hillary Clinton's run for the presidency in 2008.
In a written statement, Sestak said Clinton called him last summer to express concerns over his jumping into the Senate primary, "and the value of having me stay in the House of Representatives because of my military background."
Sestak said he told Clinton that "my only consideration in getting into the Senate race ... was whether it was the right thing to do for Pennsylvania working families and not any offer. The former president said he knew I'd say that, and the conversation moved on to other subjects," Sestak said.
The White House report disputed any suggestion that there was "impropriety" in Clinton's discussion with Sestak over possible alternatives to his Senate candidacy.
"There have been numerous, reported instances in the past when prior administrations -- both Democratic and Republican, and motivated by the same goals -- discussed alternative paths to service for qualified individuals also considering campaigns for public office," the report read. "Such discussions are fully consistent with the relevant law and ethical requirements."
The report comes one day after President Obama insisted "nothing improper" happened with Sestak. On that same day, Obama had lunch with Clinton.
"This is punishable by prison. This is a felony," said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who has been leading the charge for more details on the allegation.
"This is about the White House. This is not about Congressman Sestak," Issa said, adding that he wants to know what Clinton was empowered to say. "They've answered a question and it begs many more answers," he said. "We want elections not to be appointments."
Sestak's opponent in the general election for the Senate seat, Republican Pat Toomey, questioned why it took so long for this explanation.
"If this explanation is as innocent as it looks, I sure don't know why it took three months to say so," Toomey said in a statement. "As I've said many times, this job offer issue is not my focus, and it's not where Pennsylvanians want the focus of the campaign to be."
Critics say the Sestak job offer may have violated the part of the U.S. code that says: "Whoever, directly or indirectly, promises any employment, position, compensation... appointment... provided for or made possible in whole or in part by any Act of Congress...to any person as consideration, favor, or reward for any political activity...or in connection with any primary election ...shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both."
Fox News' Major Garrett and Chad Pergram contributed to this report.
The White House will try to spin this… and are, that it was a harmless discussion. Really?? When a former president offers you a senior position in the WH through one of the presidents men (Rahm Emanual)… not to run against a Senator that switched parties (for the WH) to help pass ObamaCare, we all know that the president knew. And they are all attorneys and know that this was and is in inappropriate and illegal. If it wasn’t it wouldn’t have taken them all this time to comment.
Sestak's Statement on White House Report on Job Offer
White House Report on Sestak Job Offer (PDF)
White House Asked Clinton to Talk to Sestak About Senate Run
After Joe Sustek’s interview on the steps of the Congress today, in a follow up interview with Ben Stein, one of the most credible thinkers of our time, along with Charles Krauthammer and Thomas Sowell, said Sustek’s story sounded like a cooked up story and still has a shoot from the hip Rahm Emanuel feel to it. This writer agrees. Ben, who has been around since the Nixon years, says the whole story just doesn’t ring true. Hopefully someone is asking… was there a quid pro-quo? And would a former president really be involved in something like this, if it was as benign as they are trying to spin it?
One of the scariest things about all this is not the isolated action but that they will just keep spinning the story away from President Obama… and secondly that there is a good part of the American people who will just shrug it off… just like the people of liberal Connecticut have such little character that after (D) candidate Blumenthal lied about fighting Viet Nam (more than once)… a disgraceful lie and picture of his lack of integrity, instead of taking a hit, Blumenthal, after taking a week to even apologize after the lie was uncovered, has received a bump in the polls.
And perhaps even worse… again, the White House waits to drop the bomb to the media on the same day(s) that Congress is cracking the whip trying to cram threw two outrageous power grabbing and freedom stealing so-called ‘financial bills’… to side-track the public, often more interested in sensationalism than true issues. If someone takes a good look, every time there is a major unpalatable and detrimental bill to the rights and freedoms of the American people, that they might or should stand up over being pushed through, the Obama White House manages to create a side-tracking emergency. Those that are paying attention, see it, but the majority still seems to choose to be fooled. (There was also conveniently some eye-opening information released yesterday about the off-shore spill, that the powers that be hope nobody will notice: As people we dying and diving into the cold oily black sea and the oil rig was burning nobody called out a May Day or for help, until a 23-year-old realizing the lapse did so… and was reprimanded by her boss. Since then the media has been stopped from going out on their own and taking photos or gathering info.)
There is an old saying that people generally have the government they deserve. I always hated that statement and felt is was untrue but the more I really get involved, read and study… the truer it seems to be.
“You can fool some of the some to of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all of the time…” The Progressives which includes the White House are counting on the fact that they can fool most of the people most of the time… Don’t let them be right!!
“Pray like it was all in God’s hands, but fight like it was all up to you!!”
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