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Ranking member on Judiciary considering options to probe Sestak offer details
the hill ^ | 5/31/10 | Bridget Johnson

Posted on 05/31/2010 1:22:00 PM PDT by Nachum

The ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee said Monday that he's studying options for investigating the Sestak affair if the administration does not responded to calls for an inquiry.

Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) said Friday that former President Bill Clinton had conveyed an offer of an administration post if Sestak did not run against Sen. Arlen Specter for the Democratic Senate nomination. Sestak said he immediately brushed off the offer, and White House counsel Bob Bauer released a memo Friday saying "we have concluded that allegations of improper conduct rest on factual errors and lack a basis in the law."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: judiciary; member; ranking; sestak

1 posted on 05/31/2010 1:22:01 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, ping


2 posted on 05/31/2010 1:22:32 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2524782/posts


3 posted on 05/31/2010 1:23:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: Nachum

This Sestak scandal sure helps Toomey by not having to buy advertizing to attack Sestak.


4 posted on 05/31/2010 1:26:27 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: BenLurkin

It is amazing how they rip people off and then accuse the ones they are screwing of doing the same.


5 posted on 05/31/2010 1:27:09 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum
The story is flawed and implausible. Enough suspicious behavior here to warrant an investigation.

6 posted on 05/31/2010 1:27:11 PM PDT by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: Nachum

I suspect the ranking member on the Judiciary is looking at options for making the issue disappear rather than options for proceeding.


7 posted on 05/31/2010 1:30:01 PM PDT by howlinhound (Live your life so that, when you get up in the morning, Satan says, "Crap!..He's awake" - Unknown)
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To: Nachum

It’s “transparency”.


8 posted on 05/31/2010 1:39:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: Nachum

They are always considering.


9 posted on 05/31/2010 1:58:13 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Nachum

It’s a RAT, it will go nowhere!


10 posted on 05/31/2010 2:44:46 PM PDT by blondee123 (Illinois ELECT Adam Kinzinger - http://www.electadam.com/ rid US of communism!)
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To: howlinhound

“I suspect the ranking member on the Judiciary is looking at options for making the issue disappear rather than options for proceeding.”

Now why would the ranking member, who is a republican, want the issue to disappear?


11 posted on 05/31/2010 3:06:36 PM PDT by billhilly
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To: Nachum
Ranking member on Judiciary

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas)

Had to look it up.

12 posted on 05/31/2010 3:08:13 PM PDT by Libloather (Tea totaler, PROUD birther, mobster, pro-lifer, anti-warmer, enemy of the state, extremist....)
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To: Libloather

Sestak said he was approached SEVERAL TIMES by the blackhouse. Wonder if it was Clinton every time


13 posted on 05/31/2010 3:21:56 PM PDT by manonCANAL
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To: Nachum

The Head Political Writer at Washington examiner says that SESTAK wasn’t even eligible for the Supposed Unpaid Intelligence Board postion because he was a Federal Employee.... Obama Admin can’t even LIE WELL...


14 posted on 05/31/2010 3:58:53 PM PDT by philly-d-kidder (....Nothing is more powerful than a man who prays...(St. John Chrysostom))
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To: billhilly

“Now why would the ranking member, who is a republican, want the issue to disappear?”

Based on experience of recent year’s, Republicans tend to lose certain appendages when it comes to standing up against high-profile Democrats. They’re still wounded from opposing Bill Clinton during impeachment. Hopefully things will change.


15 posted on 06/01/2010 12:01:27 AM PDT by howlinhound (Live your life so that, when you get up in the morning, Satan says, "Crap!..He's awake" - Unknown)
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