Posted on 05/27/2010 6:12:43 PM PDT by malkee
Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) said Thursday that his brother has spoken with White House officials about the congressman's allegation that he was offered an Obama administration job if he would stay out of a Democratic Senate primary.
Sestak ran in, and won, that primary, defeating the White House's preferred candidate, Sen. Arlen Specter.
He told reporters Thursday that he would not expand upon his prior statements until the White House releases its report on the matter. President Obama said in his news conference that such a report would come "shortly."
Richard Sestak, the congressman's brother, who has served as his top political adviser and campaign lawyer, spoke with administration officials Wednesday, Joe Sestak said.
"They got a hold of my brother on his cell phone, and he spoke to the White House . . . about what's going to occur," said Sestak, who said he expects the White House will release its information Friday. He declined to elaborate on his discussions with Richard.
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Do you have a hypothesis on that?
(BTW, I visited your beautiful city in 1994 and bid on the Submarine communications contract, unfortunately I was AF and the Pentagon wasn’t amused. :^).....)
An honest man would have already told the complete truth.
A dishonest man plays coy.
Or threaten his family?
Working overtime to find a way out of this mess.
It’s a given that the MSM will buy it. How about the American people?
The elderly don’t like obamacare and that’s a giant step into the stronghold the democrats have enjoyed with the elderly for too long a time. The elderly will believe their doctors over the democrats.
Trust me, I am trying to share your optimism! I am ready to rebel and do whatever is necessary to restore our Republic!
The Marxists have not won yet! We’re Americans. They’re AINO.
OATH? I think he has fractured every oath he’s ever taken. Riar riar pants on fire.
The ends justifies the means
This is the same story in a nut shell on him.
this fromm one blog
Admiral Joe Sistack who was fired from his last job as a three-star and did not serve long enough to be paid for the rank. Bottom line - he retired as a two-star, and yet he has three-star listed on his bio as a congressman from PA.
He couldn’t possibly have had the views he has now as an active duty Naval Officer. When he got fired, something broke inside him. My sense is that he would love to get on a committee that holds sway over military funding and budgets...he wants payback.
Conspiracy to obstruct justice. Sestak and now his brother have a duty to report these crimes to a federal magistrate or both be guilty of Misprison of Felony. If they both refuse to do so and attempt to help cover up the crimes, they will be in even more trouble.
That is the summary of it. They are all aware of it by their own admission, yet don't have the ability to talk about it. In other words.. They have lawyered up ..
The transparency is blinding.
Could it be he got fired for not playing well with others above him?
We’re not going to get Obama.
We’re not going to get anyone Obama wants to keep.
Yes it’s a serious crime. Yes it’s bad.
But in the end, justice won’t be done.
If there was no crime, Obama would have simply stated that Sestak was never offered a position in exchange for dropping out of the race and this would have all gone away.
The ONLY conclusion a reasonable person can make is that the attempted bribery actually took place.
However, Sestak’s Navy career ended in a less-than-ideal fashion. In July 2005 - within a week of Adm. Michael Mullen’s swearing-in as chief of naval operations - Sestak was dismissed as deputy chief of naval operations due to a “poor command climate,” according to the Navy Times.
Ok. Thanks
BTW, who is the only pro-gay Joint Chief? (rhetorical of course).
off hand I can’t think of.
There are thousands of gays in the military.
Thousands have been discharged out over the yrs.
One person on the Joint Chiefs support gays in the military. Its Chairman Mullen.
Mullen grew up around them as his father was a PR guy in Holywierd
Then he needs to stop worrying about being so polite. He might want to view a couple of Gov Chris Christie's responses to the media, to see how to bluntly answer & respond to liberals and the media. We are at war with the socialist RAT bastard demoRATs in this country, and it is way past time to worry about being "polite" to the socialist commie pigs, especially 0bozo the kenyan negro usurper-in-chief.
Joe Sestak’s campaign-finance report reads like a list of invitees to an Oval Office meeting with Bill Clinton.
The former three-star admiral, trying to oust Republican Curt Weldon from his U.S. House seat in the Philadelphia suburbs, has received financial support from a dozen top insiders from Clinton’s two terms in the White House.
So many onetime Clintonites are among Sestak donors that the Weldon campaign yesterday cited it as proof of its claim that Sestak, with no previous electoral experience, is little more than the tool of a Democratic Party effort to oust GOP incumbents in swing districts throughout the country.
Sestak’s campaign said, however, that the former Clinton officials are people Sestak knew personally when he was something of a White House insider - director for defense policy on the National Security Council staff.
Sestak’s contributors include U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D., N.Y.), whose political action committee gave $2,500.
Also on the list are:
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who donated $500.
Former White House chief of staff John Podesta, who gave $300.
Former CIA director John Deutch, who gave $500.
Former Navy secretary John Dalton, who gave $500.
Former national security adviser Samuel R. “Sandy” Berger, who gave $1,000.
Former national security adviser Anthony Lake, who gave $500.
Among the administration’s once-powerful but lesser known figures on the donor list is Richard A. Clarke. He later became famous for his 2003 book, Against All Enemies, that accused President Bush of ignoring terrorist threats before 9/11. Clarke, who was a top counterterrorism adviser to several presidents, gave $2,100 to Sestak.
“Joe Sestak was picked - handpicked - by the Clinton national Democratic organization to... run for this seat, and now they’re bankrolling him,” said Michael Puppio, a Weldon campaign spokesman.
Sestak is running in the Seventh District, concentrated in Delaware County, where he grew up but where he had not lived for decades before mounting his campaign. As a Navy officer, he lived all over.
The Weldon campaign earlier criticized Sestak for taking support from Berger, whom it said is a convicted criminal. Berger pleaded guilty last year to a misdemeanor charge of removing unauthorized material from an archive and retaining classified documents.
Puppio, in a telephone interview yesterday, said the inclusion of Deutch’s name on Sestak’s list made for two “convicted criminals” who had contributed to the Democrat.
Deutch won a pardon
Clinton, on leaving office in 2001, pardoned Deutch for a misdemeanor conviction of having retained classified information on his home computer.
Allison Price, Sestak’s spokeswoman, said yesterday that Sestak was “very proud” of gaining support from the Clinton insiders, including both Berger and Deutch.
Sestak earned the support of the administration officials by having won their respect and confidence when he worked with them, according to Price. His campaign Web site contains a photo of him in white Navy uniform in the Oval Office with Clinton.
A number of former National Security Council staffers, and at least four former admirals, are also among the 3,864 people the Sestak campaign said have contributed $427,264 from Jan. 1 to March 31.
In the same period, Weldon, who has been in Congress for two decades, raised more than $460,000, including substantial contributions from the defense industry. He is vice chairman of both the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees, and is the head of an Armed Services subcommittee that authorizes defense programs.
Officials at defense firms
Sestak’s financial report, filed last week with the Federal Election Commission, shows a few contributions from officials at General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, all defense companies. Price said these are from former Navy leaders or National Security Council officials who worked with Sestak.
“Many of the people in armed forces... go to work for the defense industry,” Price said.
Also donating to Sestak’s campaign were members of his large immediate family, including his father, Joe Sestak Sr., and his mother, Kathleen, both of Delaware County, who each gave the legal maximum of $4,200.
Several of his brothers and sisters gave up to $4,200, also.
Among the political well-knowns on Sestak’s report is an entertainer. Jimmy Buffett, the singer who made “Margaritaville” famous, donated $2,100 from his base of operations in Los Angeles.
Former President Clinton is a big no-show on the Sestak list.
But there is a Bill Clinton - in fact, a William J. Clinton - on the list.
Clinton, a former health-care manager who now works as a consultant from Upper Providence, Delaware County, gave $250. He recently became a township councilman.
“I am a Democrat, and a progressive,” he said, “and I support Joe Sestak.”
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For those who have been following Able Danger, here’s further proof that the Clintonites do not want Congressman Curt Weldon to get to the bottom of this scandal. For those unfamiliar with it, Able Danger was a DOD program that identified Atta before the 9/11 attacks. But when datamining efforts used by the group turned up shady links between the Clinton Administration and China, it was shutdown and prevented from sharing info with the FBI.
This group could have prevented 9/11, but the Clinton’s knocked it out of Commission. When Weldon started digging into this issue, the Clinton’s recruited one of their own — Admiral Joe Sestak, a former member of Clinton’s NationalSecurity Council — to run against Weldon.
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