House Oversight and Government Reform ranking member Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Judiciary Committee Republicans sent a letter Friday to FBI Director Robert Mueller urging him to launch an investigation into allegations that the White House acted illegally by offering Rep. Joe Sestak an unpaid position to abandon his primary bid against Sen. Arlen Specter.
Issa said it was time for the circumstances surrounding the Pennsylvania Democrat’s job offer to — “at a minimum” — be subject to a probe by law enforcement officers who are able to determine whether a law was broken.
Issa cited two federal statutes that the White House appears to have violated. He said it was time for the FBI to act and well past time for the White House to appoint a special prosecutor to look into the case.
“This is best left to individual investigators either at the FBI or the U.S. Attorneys office,” he said. Earlier Friday, Issa urged former President Bill Clinton to discuss publicly and under oath his contacts with Sestak.
White House counsel Robert Bauer released a memo Friday concluding that “allegations of improper conduct rest on factual errors and lack a basis in law,” though acknowledging that Clinton approached Sestak at the behest of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to offer Sestak an unpaid executive branch job.
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