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Issa: Explanation of Sestak Deal Is Bad Cover-Up of Crime (Obama not that smart after all)
fox news ^ | 5/30/2010 | fox news

Posted on 05/31/2010 6:02:08 AM PDT by tobyhill

A California congressman who called it an "impeachable" offense for the administration to offer Rep. Joe Sestak a job in exchange for his quitting a Senate bid said Sunday the cover-up, as usual, appears worse than the crime.

Republican Rep. Darrell Issa said the explanation for the Sestak affair -- that former President Bill Clinton offered the Democratic congressman an unpaid position on an advisory board if he would drop his challenge against party-switching Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter -- is not plausible because as a sitting congressman Sestak couldn't have served on a presidential commission.

"It's a crime because they've admitted that they offered this position ... So that begs the real question. Do we believe this is a further cover-up because he's -- they're now talking about a job that President Clinton himself should have known Sestak couldn't take? " he said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; corruption; crime; democrats; impeach; obama; sestak; sestakgate

1 posted on 05/31/2010 6:02:08 AM PDT by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

Sestak gate must be over. It is no where to be found on Drudge, and not in FR’s populer keywords.


2 posted on 05/31/2010 6:09:11 AM PDT by Sybeck1 (Pander to me for a change!!)
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To: Liz

Ping


3 posted on 05/31/2010 6:33:58 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops....and vote out the RINOS!)
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To: Sybeck1

It will be over after we completely humiliate Obama. Not before.


4 posted on 05/31/2010 6:37:13 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops....and vote out the RINOS!)
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To: tobyhill
"It's a crime because they've admitted that they offered this position ...

Has anyone given Issa a course in logic? It's not a crime because they've admitted they've offered a position. It would only be a crime if there were any statutes broken by offering the position. So far, 18 USC 600 and 18 USC 211, as quoted in various places in the news, don't apply to this; 18 USC 600 because of the "act of Congress" clause; 18 USC 211 for these reasons.
5 posted on 05/31/2010 6:55:00 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: tobyhill; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; ...

The list, ping


6 posted on 05/31/2010 9:19:08 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

I thank God, reverently, for the few Republicans who are actually willing to fight. Issa is near the top of the list.


7 posted on 05/31/2010 9:24:15 AM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: tobyhill

I saw a clip of a reporter asking bubba about this. bubba learned well. He did not even acknowledge the reporter.


8 posted on 05/31/2010 10:15:45 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: tobyhill; Nachum

It’s now reached Super Nova.


9 posted on 06/01/2010 2:43:47 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Kagan ENDED Constitutional Law in Harvard: freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2523089/posts)
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