Posted on 05/29/2010 8:27:43 PM PDT by AJFavish
In a little-noticed passage Friday, the New York Times reported that Rep. Joe Sestak was not eligible for a place on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, the job he was reportedly offered by former President Bill Clinton. And indeed a look at the Board’s website reveals this restriction:
The Board consists of not more than 16 members appointed by the President from among individuals who are not employed by the Federal Government. Members are distinguished citizens selected from the national security, political, academic, and private sectors.
As a sitting member of Congress, Sestak was not eligible for the job. And since the White House intended for Sestak to remain in his House seat, he would not have been eligible for the board after this November’s elections, provided he was re-elected to the House.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/sestak-was-ineligible-for-job-clinton-offered-95167459.html#ixzz0pNbk7DhT
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
It’s amusing that anyone thinks Obama actually appoints people based on appropriate experience.
The usual preposterous Obama lies.
Utterly ignored by whore media.
They’re lying. They got caught and made up this alibi. Total Bravo Sierra. Used Clinton because he has no soul, is willing (eager) to lie and is “not part of the administration”. Unless someone flips they got away with it.
Everyone in the damned administration is either ineligible or unqualified already!
If an illegal job offer is made to a man that is not eligible for the position, has a crime really been committed?
This is just the NYT giving cover for the current administration.
You forgot liars
Hussein isn’t eligible or qualified for the job of POTUS.
Notice all this complete bullsh*t from Obama was deposited shortly after 5 PM Friday at the start of a three day holiday weekend.
Everyone in the damned administration is either ineligible or unqualified already!
Maybe that was their poison pill—he gets out of the race, then can’t take the job, and they figured he’d look too stupid if he spilled to the press?
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. Is the New York Times really this stupid or do they think it's the public who's stupid? In the first passage they're continuing the lie that it was Clinton who offered Sestak the job. Yet, in the second paragraph it says the person must be appointed to the job by the president. Now we haven't had the 'Stainmaker' as president since Jan 2001, so how can he offer a job to someone who must be appointed by the president?
I suppose since we voted for the kenyan klod the Times is right in thinking of us (at least those of us who rely on the NYT for their news) as morons.
No...it’s pretty simple....They tried to concoct a credible story but forgot that Sestak wasn’t available to take the unpaid job anyway.....just like the Nixon staff blame the secretary on erasing the 18 minutes on the tape that was missing...which the media laughed at as being ridiculous
The cover story for Sestak was botched! GET IT?
Take a chill pill. You don't know \all the facts. No one does at this point.
Dang, when I first saw this story I thought it was going to say that Sestak wasn’t intelligent.
Now, would Sestak have been eligible for Secretary of the Navy?
As I recall, Al Haig was *NOT* eligible for Secretary of Defense in 1981 because he had not been out of the army for 10 years.
I assume Secretary of the Navy is under a similar constraint? It looks like Sestak was discharged in 2005.
Chill Pill? How can somebody offer him a job that he can’t take anyway...it was a blunder on the WH trying to cover up the facts that somebody did offer Sestak a paid job!
They got caught with another lie in the Clinton coverup story! why can’t you see that?
Even Sestak and the WH memo reports that more that once Sestak was contacted — now they are only focused on Clinton talking to him once for 60 seconds!
Don’t let facts get in the way of the cover up bookmark.
Don’t get so worked up all. This is typical of CONgress. This is yours & my government. The corruption here is as bad as any democracy on this planet & nothing will come of this. Accept reality.
I think everyone knows they are lying, even if they don’t say it out loud.
They remind me of teenagers who are up to no good and come up with cover stories they have to keep straight in order to fool their parents.
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