Penn AG Tom Corbett Should Empanel Grand Jury in Sestak Affair
Fred B. Brown
By Dick Morris
05.27.2010
By Dick Morris and Judge Andrew Napolitano
With a Democratic Attorney General in Washington, a Democratic president,
and both houses of Congress solidly in Democratic control, it is obviously
futile to hope that the possible bribery of Joe Sestak to induce him to
withdraw from the Senate race against Arlen Specter will be fully
investigated. But, as the facts of this scandal grudgingly emerge from the
White House and from Congressman Sestak, there is an alternative way to
pursue justice.
The Pennsylvania Attorney General, Tom Corbett - who is the Republican
nominee for Governor this year - has ample jurisdiction to convene a grand
jury to get to the bottom of the scandal and answer the key questions:
1. Who offered a job to Sestak?
2. What job was proffered?
3. And did the president know of the offer?
Corbett's jurisdiction stems from the concept of universal jurisdiction, now
accepted virtually everywhere. The concept is simple. If someone on the New
Jersey side of the Hudson River fires a pistol across the Hudson and the
bullet from the pistol hits someone on the NY side, where did the crime take
place? For about 600 years, the answer would have been in NY, where the harm
was caused. Under the Reagan administration, and in response to urgings from
the Meese Justice Department, the courts began to accept the doctrine of
universal jurisdiction. This principle gives jurisdiction to law enforcement
in the place wherever any act occurred that may have resulted in a crime.
Thus, under our scenario above, the shooter could be prosecuted in NJ or NY.
Thus, if Cong. Sestak was in one of his homes, in PA or VA, when he received
a telephone call offering him a job if he withdrew from the PA Senate
primary against Sen. Arlen Specter, law enforcement authorities in PA and
VA - both of which have Republican state Attorneys General - can subpoena
Cong. Sestak to testify before a state grand jury and compel him to answer
the who, what, when, and where that everyone has a right to know.
The people of the United States and, particularly the people of
Pennsylvania, want these questions to be answered honestly. They will not
settle for a Democratic stonewall that refuses to let the truth emerge.
Under our federal system, we need not tolerate giving one party the power to
be the prosecutor, judge, defendant, defense attorney, and jury. We can open
the process to checks and balances.
Corbett should make it possible for the truth to emerge by convening a grand
jury and summoning Sestak, Emanuel, and anyone else who may have been
involved to answer questions under oath.
Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names
<fredb...@nowhere.com> wrote:
Right.
And the CA attorney general should empanel a grand jury to investigate
the Reagan-Hayakawa affair.
Fred B. Brown
"Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names" <PopUl...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uj5306lqj77mgof58...@4ax.com...
Too late, the statute of limitations ran out and Regan died.
Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names
<fredb...@nowhere.com> wrote:
Reagan can be impeached post mortem and his lieutenants can go to
jail.
After all, they have a lot to answer for:
-- Planning and executing the destruction of the US economy.
-- Planning and executing the destruction of the US middle class.
-- Bribing a member of Congress by offering a position in his
administration to Senator S. I. Hayakawa if he would drop out of the
California Republican primary.
-- Conspiring with Saddam Hussein, an enemy of the US, to provide arms
and equipment to Nicarauguan thugs in violation of US law.
-- Providing TS/SI compartmented US intelligence information to an
enemy of the US -- Saddam Hussein -- that enabled Hussein to use
poison gas on his own nation.