Posted on 05/28/2010 8:48:41 AM PDT by jazusamo
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel enlisted former President Bill Clinton to persuade Rep. Joe Sestak not to run in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary but nothing improper occurred, the White House counsel said in a memo issued Friday.
According to the memo, written by White House counsel Robert Bauer, Clinton asked Sestak if he wanted to take on an unpaid, advisory role with the White House and encourage him not to challenge Sen. Arlen Specter, who had switched the Democratic party last year.
The rebuttal represents the first substantive comments from the White House on the controversy. Dozens of Republicans — including former Attorney General Michael Mukasey and all of the GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee — have pressed for the Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor to look into the White House job offer.
The full memo is embedded below.
If that is the best they can come up with, you know they are in deep fertilizer.
Bwahahahaha!
Uh, it's still illegal.
Agree with you both.
OK. WHY ask BJ to make the contact?
Hmmmmmmm??????
Why not just call youself, Rahm Emasshole?
Maybe because you know it’s wrong.
Doesn’t matter if this is true. They have to answer that question. And the next. And the next.
The hole just gets deeper and deeper.
And they pee’d in the BT by draging the previous liar in Chief into the mix.
Do they actually think ANYONe other than slutty women everywhere respect that slug.
Well, The Odinga Regime IS the Land of the Lost (and clueless).
Bill Clinton, now that’s the guy I’d pick to make an “offer” that I know would be completely in the clear.
What did happen? I guess I’m behind in the game a little.
LOL!
hahaah, this is the best laugh all day !!! Yep, those White House boyz sure do know how to make a deal. Just offer an unpaid advisory position. Voila! deal done.
Bauer, Emmanuel and Obama are all total POSs.
Yeah let’s get another party involved (clinton) so we can have maximum room for “misspeaking”, “misunderstanding”, etc.
you got that right...Mrs O kinda reminds me of Chakka.
WHAT?? Do they think we are crazy??
i highly doubt its an unpaid advisory job offer, because what sort of offer is that to convince Sestak to drop out of a paid senator job for an unpaid advisory job. Not worth the trade. The unpaid advisory job offer is a disguise for the defense. Its unpaid thus no monetary bribery happened, is what they want us to think
“Just because the position was unpaid does NOT mean it had no VALUE. Thanks for the admission of guilt WH.”
“Whoever…indirectly…promises…”
Bingo!
WH counsel Robert Bauer also was the one who earlier represented to the court that Obama had published his “birth certificate” on the internet.
If Clinton, who is not a WH official as Sestak said made him the offer bribe, actually did do as they say then why did the WH lawyers have to investigate, ask a whole bunch of other people what they knew in order to determine "nothing inappropriate" occurred? I want to see the records of those inquiries, I want to see who was talked to, what they said, the when, where, how. This is ridiculous.
Uncompensated Advisory Board Options. We found that, as the Congressman has publically and accurately stated, options for Executive Branch service were raised with him. Efforts were made in June and July of 2009 to determine whether Congressman Sestak would be interested in service on a Presidential or other Senior Executive Branch Advisory Board, which would avoid a divisive Senate primary, allow him to retain his seat in the House, and provide him with an opportunity for additional service to the public in a high-level advisory capacity for which he was highly qualified. The advisory positions discussed with Congressman Sestak, while important to the work of the Administration, would have been uncompensated.
White House staff did not discuss these options with Congressman Sestak. The White House Chief of Staff enlisted the support of former President Clinton who agreed to raise with Congressman Sestak the options of service on a Presidential or other Senior Executive Branch Advisory Board. Congressman Sestak declined the suggested alternatives, remaining committed to his Senate candidacy.
And these will be the dem talking points ad nauseum for the next 2 weeks on the cable shows.
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