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Sanity -> RE: The Sestak Allegation (5/27/2010 5:36:51 AM)
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The (montage) tape was released hours before Sestak and Gibbs were scheduled to appear as guests on Sunday national TV talk shows this weekend. In a statement released by Issa, who is the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform as a well as a senior member of Judiciary, the Congressman said: For months, a United States Congressman has stated that the White House offered him a job in exchange for not running in an election -- we call this a bribe. Despite being asked numerous times, the White House has not refuted Congressman Sestak's allegations, but refuses to disclose who offered what and when. So this Administration, that pledged to be a beacon of transparency and change, continues to conceal from the American people the truth about what exactly was said and offered. Until we get direct answers, this White House doesn't have a leg to stand on when they talk about openness and change. During his Meet the Press appearance, Sestak was asked by moderator David Gregory in this fashion: MR. GREGORY: Yes or no, straightforward question. Were you, were you offered a job, and what was the job?
REP. SESTAK: I was offered a job, and I answered that.
MR. GREGORY: You said no, you wouldn't take the job. Was it the secretary of the Navy?
REP. SESTAK: Right. And I also said, "Look, I'm getting into this... The "Right" answer would be the first time that Sestak has personally confirmed what has been long suspected -- the bribe Issa mentions was indeed the job of Secretary of the Navy. Meanwhile, over on CBS's Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer, Obama press secretary Gibbs was saying this: BOB SCHIEFFER: One final question. Joe Sestak who beat Arlen Specter and the White House, of course, was-- was backing Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania primary up there. All these reports that the White House offered him some sort of job, some sort of post in the administration, if he wouldn't run, would you tell us what-- what post he was offered?
ROBERT GIBBS: Well, Bob, I-- I'm not a lawyer. But lawyers in the White House and others have looked into conversations that were had with Congressman Sestak. And noting-- nothing inappropriate happened. I-- I think Republicans are continuing to dredge this up because if you look just a couple of days after this primary, the polling shows that Republicans are already behind in a very important Senate race.
BOB SCHIEFFER: Improper or not, did you offer him a job in the administration?
ROBERT GIBBS: I-- I-- I'm not going to get--
BOB SCHIEFFER (overlapping): Okay.
ROBERT GIBBS: --further into what the conversations were. People that have looked into them assure me that they weren't inappropriate in any way. Which is to say, while Sestak is now admitting the job in question was Secretary of the Navy, Gibbs refuses yet again to discuss the issue. He makes it clear the White House will not be revealing the name of the person who offered Sestak the job of Secretary of the Navy.
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/05/24/bribe-charge-issa-jobsgate-vid/print
This could be serious. This will very potentially cost the Dems a Senate seat, and no one could possibly offer the Secretary of Navy position without going through the president.
"High Crimes and Misdemeanors".
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