SESTAK JOB OFFER AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE

Clinton Criminality Again

Posted on Sunday, May 30, 2010 10:59:07 PM by Biblebelter
Free Republic is a conservative forum that made its bones on the CRIMINALITY of Bill and Hillary Clinton. I remember when it was called the Whitewater forum. I became a registered member on this forum in 1998, but I was a lurker for at least a year.
The criminality of the Clintons and their minions knew no bounds and this forum established the internet as a viable place to document the criminality that the main stream media refused to report.
Hillary was an accomplice in the looting of Lincoln Savings and Loan, she did the crime, and Chelsea’s biological father, Webb Hubbell did the time. Slick Willie was sterile as he used to tell his rape victims and was incapable of fathering a child. He understood that the disease that promiscuity could cause could result in sterility as his mother was a “party girl” or common whore living in the cesspool of Hot Springs, Arkansas where political and criminal types would network to scheme and plot how to screw the decent and common man.
If you have not read Ambrose Evans-Pritchard’s book “The Secret Life of Bill Clinton” then you ought to. I still read Evans-Pritchard who is currently an economics columnist for The Daily Telegraph in the United Kingdom. His book was chilling in that he reported that former Clinton bodyguard Jerry Luther Parker reportedly said that he knew that he was a dead man when Vince Foster’s body was found in Fort Marcy Park. And so he was, as he was shot down on a rural road. To this day there have been no arrest in his murder.
If you do not know how Bill Clinton’s personal secretary, Betty Curry’s brother died, then you ought to find out.
If you are not familiar with Monica Lewinsky’s mother comment, that the blue dress was kept because she did not want to end up like Mary Mahoney, then you ought to be.
If you are not familiar with why Gyniffer Flowers taped Slick Willie, then you ought to be. A crew assembled by the Clinton thug Terry Lezner visited Flower’s roommate, and asked if Flowers was the kind of girl who might commit suicide. That is as subtle and implied a threat as I mind can conjure up.
Bill Clinton was the LOWEST man to hold the highest since Caligula.
He sold out to the RED CHINESE by taking campaign donations.
That is what this forum did best, it provided facts on the criminality of Democrat politicians such as the Clintons.
I have not posted in a while, because I am a CONSERVATIVE to the core. The Republican Party was hijacked and destroyed by the likes of guys named George Bush and Bob Dole whose names were on every Republican national ticket from 1976 to 2004. I could not stomach nor defend preppy boys named George Bush. I had no enthusiasm for distinguished and honorable veterans such as Bob Dole and John McCain who fought the good fight on the field of battle in distant lands, only to surrender again and again on the field of politics here in their homeland.
What is the point of my post?
The Clinton criminality has exposed itself once again.
Only this time, Slick Willie was not the mastermind but simply a low level errand boy, for the fairy Rahm Immanuel.
I have little respect for Newt Gingrich, but I think his analysis on Fox News Friday night got it right.
He asserted that Clinton’s offer was only the opening offer.
The fact the White House has admitted as much by using the term “offers” plural while the liar Sestak seems to have changed his story a great deal and downplayed his original story. He now realizes, the truth will bring him down. And the truth is, that what he has been telling for months, it was a CRIME for a job to be offered to him, and for him not to report it as a crime was, does not put him in a favorable light.
Of course for Slick Willie this was small potatoes. When he was on top, he never offered anybody anything, he did not negotiate with those who might give him problems, those who might simply turned up no longer breathing.
If you are not familiar with Alamo Girl’s Downside Legacy, then you ought to be. Go to Free Republic’s home page and click the first link under Alliances.
Barry Obama has committed high crimes and misdemeanors. And if he hasn’t his underlings like Rahm Immanuel have committed high crimes and misdemeanors in his name.
Wake up America, wake up Free Republic, criminality once again runs rampant in the White House

Congressman: White House Job Offer to Sestak May Be an 'Impeachable' Offense

Posted by FOXNews.com

Rep. Joe Sestak's allegation that the White House offered him a job to drop out of the Pennsylvania Senate primary race against Arlen Specter is a crime that could lead to the impeachment of President Obama, Rep. Darrell Issa said.

But the decision by the Pennsylvania congressman not to elaborate on a so-called deal also could become a political problem as Sestak tries for the U.S. Senate seat.

The White House reportedly is going to formally address the allegation in the next few days. In the meantime, Issa, R-Calif., is one of many inside and outside Washington who want the Democratic Senate primary candidate to explain in detail what offer the White House made.

"It's very clear that allegation is one that everyone from Arlen Spector to Dick Morris has said is in fact a crime, and could be impeachable," said Issa, who is threatening to file an ethics compliant if Sestak doesn't provide more details about the alleged job offer.

Sestak, a former vice admiral in the Navy, first alleged in February that the White House offered him a high-ranking position in the administration last summer if he would sit out the primary against Specter, who won the backing of the White House and state Democratic leaders for switching parties.

The allegation is considered one of the factors that helped him defeat Specter, who was viewed as unscrupulous in doing whatever he could to keep his seat, including changing his party to win White House support for an uphill re-election battle.

But now, Sestak has to go into the general election, where his opponent, former Republican Rep. Pat Toomey, is willing to use the topic as referendum on both Sestak's and Obama's credibility.

"Congressman Sestak should tell the public everything he knows about the job he was offered, and who offered it," Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey said in a written statement. "To do otherwise will only continue to raise questions and continue to be a needless distraction in this campaign."

And Democratic Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, a close ally of the president, said Sestak can't continue to lay out the charge without backing it up.

"At some point, Congressman Sestak needs to make it clear what happened," he said.

Issa said this allegation is bigger than the Senate race.

"For Joe Sestak, he can dance around it and he may or may not be a senator," he said. "But for the White House, this problem's not going away. Adm. Sestak is in fact a very reliable source."

Ann Marie McAvoy, a former federal prosecutor, said the White House could have a problem on its hands depending on what the facts show.

"If they were simply offering him a job because they thought he was a qualified person for it and there was no request made that he in essence drop out of the race, it would be different," she told Fox News. "This is why there really needs to be an in depth investigation. There needs to be witness interviews and so on to figure out what happened, who said what, what were the other circumstances surrounding it."

Issa has called on the Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor but Attorney General Eric Holder has said that won't be necessary.

"We assure you that the Department of Justice takes very seriously allegations of criminal conduct by public officials," Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich told Issa in a letter. "All such matters are reviewed carefully by career prosecutors and law enforcement agents, and appropriate action, if warranted, is taken."

Weich said a special prosecutor won't be needed because the Justice Department "has a long history of handling investigations of high level officials professionally and independently, without the need to appoint a special counsel."

But McAvoy said any allegation of wrongdoing shouldn't be left to the Justice Department to decide.

"Someone in the administration had this conversation which means that would be the person mostly likely who committed the crime if there is a crime," she said. "So you have the people who are representing the people who potentially committed the crime are making the determinations as to whether anything wrong happened. That's not the way it's supposed to happen."

Issa compared any potential cover-up to the Watergate scandal of the Nixon era.the White House Tuesday of a cover up similar to the Watergate scandal.

"It's not about what was done wrong. It's about the cover up," Issa told Fox News. "And right now, there's a cover up going on at the White House 10 weeks after the allegation."

How the Sestak job offer became a big deal

By Chris Cilliza, Washington Post. May 28, 2010

Party leaders and campaign operatives -- on nearly a daily basis -- approach challenger candidates seeking to disrupt the established political order with a simple message: Get out or else.

And so, the report this morning that former President Bill Clinton was tasked by White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to make such an approach to Rep. Joe Sestak -- allegedly offering him an unpaid advisory role on an intelligence board in exchange for getting him to drop his primary bid against Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) -- would not normally raise much of a stir in official Washington.

That the story has become a major controversy, a regular fixture on cable news chat shows and a momentum-killer for Sestak following his come-from behind victory against Specter in last week's Pennsylvania primary is evidence of how the White House mishandled the controversy, according to conversations with several high-level Democratic strategists.

"How do you make something out of nothing?," asked one such operative who was granted anonymity to speak candidly about the matter. "By acting guilty when you're innocent."

Another senior party official said that the White House "has a lot of egg on their face" and described the events as a "PR nightmare".

The unfolding of events since Sestak told a local television host -- albeit obliquely -- in February that he had received a job offer from the White House speaks to one of the oldest political adages about the presidency: stonewalling almost never works. (The full White House report on the matter is here.)

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was repeatedly asked in the intervening months about Sestak's allegation but deflected comment. As the story became a bigger deal in the wake of Sestak's primary victory, the statements out of the White House grew more and more opaque -- as Gibbs insisted over the weekend that "nothing inappropriate happened" but refusing to engage in the more basic "what happened question."

The matter reached a head during President Obama's press conference yesterday when, asked by Fox News Channel's Major Garrett about the details of the Sestak job offer, the President said only: "I can assure the public that nothing improper took place. But as I said, there will be a response shortly on that issue."

Republicans gleefully highlighted every incident of the White House's practiced silence on the matter, using the Sestak allegation to undermine one of the pillars of the Obama brand: transparency and accountability.

"This issue goes to the heart of Obama's claims to have a different kind of White House and that he would usher in a new era of transparency and accountability," Republican National Committee communications director Doug Heye told the Fix earlier this week.

Allies of the White House argue that the Sestak situation was less PR blunder than conscious choice to accept some short term pain for long term gain (or at least less long term pain).

Their argument is that the White House could have pushed out an answer to the Sestak job controversy quickly but, in so doing, would have run the risk of not having all the facts of a relatively complex situation straight -- making it a real possibility that they would be bludgeoned by the press if there was a mistake or inconsistency in the original statement.

Instead, they chose to conduct an exhaustive review, which led to what we expect to be a detailed document from the White House counsel's office later today, in order to take the public relations hit and quickly move on.

Regardless of the reasoning (or lack therefor, according to their critics) behind the White House's approach to the issue, their extended silence on the matter has created -- at least in the near term -- a major PR problem.

It's -- yet more -- evidence that small things can quickly grow into big things in the hothouse atmosphere of official Washington. While Obama and his senior aides decry that fishbowl effect, it has come back to bite them this time around.

CAPITALIZE ON SESTAK SCANDAL

By DICK MORRIS

Published on TheHill.com on May 25, 2010

Rep. Joe Sestak, the winner of the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary, says quite openly and repeatedly that he was offered a job by the White House if he would drop out of the race against Sen. Arlen Specter. Having secured Specter's conversion to the Democratic Party, thus giving the party a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, the Obama administration obviously sought to keep its word to Specter that it would do its utmost to deliver the Democratic nomination to him. According to Sestak, that included a job offer.

Who made the offer? What position was offered? And when did it happen? Sestak, who was nominated on a platform of "transparency," refuses to answer any of these questions. The White House admits that a conversation took place but won't provide any details and insists that an "internal investigation" revealed that "nothing inappropriate" took place.

Or did it?

It is unlikely that Sestak was offered a job interviewing people for the census. Only a high-level job offer -- a Cabinet post or an ambassadorship to a key country -- would have sufficient gravitas to conceivably induce him to drop his primary challenge. Some have speculated that Sestak, a retired admiral, might have been offered the post of secretary of the Navy. Others wonder whether, since he is fluent in Russian, he was to be tapped for ambassador to Moscow.

And, before an offer of that magnitude were tendered, it would have to have been cleared with the higher levels of the White House. How could an offer of a Cabinet post have been made without consultation with the chief of staff?

And how was the offer made? It would have to have been proffered by It is unlikely that Sestak was offered a job interviewing people for the census. Only a high-level job offer -- a Cabinet post or an ambassadorship to a key country -- would have sufficient gravitas to conceivably induce him to drop his primary challenge. Some have speculated that Sestak, a retired admiral, might have been offered the post of secretary of the Navy. Others wonder whether, since he is fluent in Russian, he was to be tapped for ambassador to Moscow.

And, before an offer of that magnitude were tendered, it would have to have been cleared with the higher levels of the White House. How could an offer of a Cabinet post have been made without consultation with the chief of staff?somebody whom Sestak could reasonably assume was speaking for the president and could deliver on his end of the deal. A lower-level official wouldn't have that kind of clout. Could the offer have been tendered by Rahm Emanuel himself. It's clearly his style.

But could Rahm or anyone else have made such an offer without consulting the president himself? You can't go around passing out Cabinet posts or ambassadorships without consulting the boss. Whatever position of that level the White House dangled in front of him, it would have to have been approved by the president.

And Sestak must have probed the person who conveyed the offer to ascertain its bona fides. He would reasonably have asked, "Did you clear this with the president?" Otherwise, why would he even consider such an offer?

The White House and Sestak are stonewalling questions from the media and, obviously, a Democratic-controlled Congress is not about to go poking around asking about the proposed deal.

So how could the Republicans break it open?

The weak link here is Sestak himself, who claims that he embraces "transparency." Fueled by his primary victory and the momentum it generated, Rasmussen has him four points ahead of Pat Toomey, the GOP candidate. This lead won't hold up for long in the face of a refusal to respond to questions the public is entitled to have answered.

Toomey or the Republican Party or other independent-expenditure groups should run ads throughout Pennsylvania asking these basic questions.

They should tell Sestak that he ran on a platform of transparency and it's time to reveal who offered what and when.

Either Sestak is lying and there was never an offer or the White House has skirted very close to having committed a crime or may have stepped over the edge. And, considering the stakes and the nature of what the offer would have to have been, this scandal could reach very high indeed.

Is it a high crime and misdemeanor to offer someone something of value in return for withdrawing from a U.S. Senate race? We may be about to find out.

Sestak, White House Deflect Job-Offer Questions

By Thomas Fitzgerald

Inquirer Staff Writer

Rep. Joe Sestak, the brand-new Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania, and White House press secretary Robert Gibbs each dodged questions Sunday about Sestak's claim that the Obama administration offered him a job last summer if he would skip a primary challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter.

The issue, with implications of potential illegality by the White House, has rekindled in the five days since Sestak defeated Specter, who fled the Republican Party to seek a sixth term. GOP leaders are pressing Sestak and the administration to provide details of discussions.

During an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press, Sestak confirmed he was offered a job. But he would not answer host David Gregory's follow-up questions. "Anything that goes beyond that is for others to talk about," Sestak said.

On CBS's Face the Nation, Sestak said that providing details "just gets into politics, and actually that is what I think is failing Washington, D.C."

Gibbs, bombarded with questions about the allegation at Wednesday's press briefing, acknowledged that there were talks with Sestak about his challenge to Specter but told host Bob Schieffer on Sunday that they were kosher.

"Lawyers in the White House and others have looked into the conversations that were had with Congressman Sestak - and nothing inappropriate happened," Gibbs said. "I'm not going to get further into what the conversations were."

After beating Specter 54 percent to 46 percent Tuesday, Sestak faces Republican Senate nominee Pat Toomey in the fall general election.

Sestak, a retired Navy admiral who is in his second term in the House, appeared on the two political talk shows as analysts grappled with primary electorates in Pennsylvania and Kentucky that gave the boot to a Democratic incumbent (Specter) and the GOP establishment choice (Trey Grayson, who lost to Rand Paul).

Because the White House backed Specter, who had provided the crucial vote for President Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus, Sestak was cast as the outsider. Under questioning from Gregory on Meet the Press, however, he had difficulty naming any policy disagreements with the administration.

Sestak voted for bailouts of the financial industry, the stimulus, the health-care overhaul, and a bill designed to cap carbon emissions to battle climate change - all Obama priorities.

"Oh, I honestly think that this president has done great, good things, but I don't think we've gone far enough in terms of helping small business," Sestak said.

Toomey's campaign seized on the interview to argue that Sestak is a loyal Obama Democrat and thus out of step with the public in a state where about half of voters disapprove of the job the president is doing, according to the most recent independent polls.

"It is clear that Joe Sestak is not an independent voice for Pennsylvania, but an echo," said Nachama Soloveichik, communications director for Toomey. Sestak has voted 100 percent of the time this year with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), she said.

There was no secret that the Obama administration and Democratic leaders in Pennsylvania wanted to avoid a divisive primary fight and rally around Specter. But Sestak refused to stand down, and then caused a stir in February when he told veteran TV journalist Larry Kane that he had been offered a significant federal job to forgo a challenge. Kane asked whether the post was Navy secretary, and Sestak declined to comment.

He has stayed mum since on the details of the job claim, and the White House, when it would address the subject at all, has said nothing inappropriate happened.

Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the top Republican on the House government-oversight committee, has demanded information from the administration on conversations with Sestak, and he has called for an independent counsel to investigate the matter. He has been rebuffed on both counts.

Last week, Issa said he was considering filing a formal ethics complaint against Sestak on grounds that he has withheld knowledge of a potential crime.

"President Obama faces a critical choice - either he can live up to his rhetoric of transparency and accountability and disclose who in his White House tried to manipulate an election by bribing a U.S. congressman, or he can allow his administration to stonewall and relinquish the mantle of change," Issa said Sunday in a statement.

Even Democratic National Chairman Tim Kaine, appearing on Fox News Sunday, seemed to suggest that the White House should be more forthcoming.

"Look, if the question gets asked, it's something they should deal with," Kaine said. But when he was asked later, on ABC's This Week, whether the White House had an obligation to provide details, Kaine said: "I don't know that they do."