The White House Lawyers Up May 31, 2010
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And Krauthammer comments:
I found the statement from the White House just unbelievably lawyerly and, I must say, deceptive. Look at the things that it hides inside.
It says that options were raised— look how they use the passive [verb construction] – “for Executive Branch service.” Now, that could be a paid or unpaid job.
The next sentence then speaks about unpaid [appointment] to give the impression that the only offer was unpaid. But it doesn’t say [that explicitly]. They need to be asked, was he ever offered a paid job? That is not denied explicitly in here.
Number two, the only offer that we’ve heard about — [which] Sestak has talked about – [is] a phone call from President Clinton. But this is what the White House statement says: Efforts were made in June and July of 2009 to determine whether Sestak would be interested in appointed service.
I’ve never heard of a phone call that lasts two months. Obviously there were either other efforts [either] by Clinton — according to the White House, not me — or by others if this was a two-month effort. Who were the others who made the offers, what were the offers and were any of them non-paid?
The other questions are: Why did the White House contact the brother of Sestak yesterday? Did they say [it was] a heads up? It could also be obstruction, working out stories. And what was the conversation like between Obama and Clinton yesterday morning? — just by accident, perhaps, a day before the Clintonian [Sestak] story.
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