Posted on 05/24/2010 1:51:03 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
For Sestak Matter, a Trust Us Response From White House By PETER BAKER
WASHINGTON For three months, the White House has refused to say whether it offered a job to Representative Joe Sestak to induce him to drop his challenge to Senator Arlen Specter in a Pennsylvania Democratic primary, as Mr. Sestak has asserted.
But the White House wants everyone who suspects that something untoward, or even illegal, might have happened to rest easy: it still will not reveal what happened, but the White House says it has examined its own actions and decided that it did nothing wrong. Whatever it was that it did.
Lawyers in the White House and others have looked into conversations that were had with Congressman Sestak, Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, said on Sunday on the Face the Nation program on CBS. And nothing inappropriate happened.
Improper or not, did you offer him a job in the administration? asked the host, Bob Schieffer.
Im not going to get further into what the conversations were, Mr. Gibbs replied. People that have looked into them assure me that they werent inappropriate in any way.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the trust us response from the White House has not exactly put the matter to rest. Though Mr. Sestak stayed in the race, and defeated Mr. Specter in the primary last Tuesday, the questions have returned with intensity and remain unanswered. Mr. Gibbs deflected questions about the matter 13 times at a White House news briefing last Thursday, while Mr. Sestak reaffirmed his assertion without providing any specifics about what the offer was or who made it.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
You mean even the TIMES isn’t buying the trust us answer??? Hussein must be astounded? His OWN NEWSPAPER causing him grief!
"TRUST US"....isn't it about time for Plugs to chew on another foot?..he's overdue
Just imagine if Bush had done this....
Even Pinchee is pissed, he needs positive cash flow before the family money is gone....
I dont see the scandal, Steve Elmendorf, who was chief of staff to former Representative Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri when Mr. Gephardt was the House Democratic leader, said in an e-mail message. Sestak is totally qualified for the job, and Dem and Rep presidents routinely offer members of Congress jobs for all sorts of reasons.
Uh, qualified for WHAT job?
“the White House says it has examined its own actions and decided that it did nothing wrong.”
Thanks for helping me believe the Bible:
“Every way of a fool is right in his own eyes.” (Prov. 12.15)
This from the most transparent administration ever? More like the most corrupt ever.
Well thank you for confirming that you did an internal investigation and have the records to show it. Now that will make the subpeonas all the easier now that you have consolidated the information in one place.
ping
Famous Quotes:
Richard Nixon: “I am not a crook.”
Howard Baker: “What did the President know and when did he know it?”
Barack Obama: “Trust Us.”
Harry Reid: “OK.”
Just ignore the body, no murder was committed here.
The communists are using the RAT party for a front as they seek to ruin this country and the RATS are completely enjoying it!!!!!!
I would NOT trust a single person in the White House to even walk my dogs.
A version of this article appeared in print on May 25, 2010, on page A18 of the New York edition.
I would have prefered the front page of the national edition, page A01.
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