Clinton's Role in Sestak Controversy Stirs Questions About His and White House Motives

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Fox News:

Like an aging sports star who can't stay away from the game, Bill Clinton's direct role in the firestorm over President Obama's job offer to a lawmaker for a political favor has raised questions about whether the former president was used and abused by a cynical administration or whether he took advantage of the White House to burnish his legacy.

At the behest of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Clinton tried last summer to persuade Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Sestak to abandon his primary challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter by offering an executive branch post.

But in perhaps a sign of Clinton's fading influence, Sestak turned the offer down and whipped Specter in the primary last week.

"It's very clear that President Clinton doesn't want to leave politics but more importantly that the White House wanted some sort of plausible deniability," Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who is calling for an FBI investigation, told Fox News on Friday.

Issa added that President Nixon had deniability from the plumbers in the Watergate scandal that ultimately brought down his presidency until he became part of the coverup.

"At this point, 10 weeks later, lots of witness tampering, or at least witness interrogation by people who are self serving, we're beginning to go down that same road," he said. "It's now time for the president to say enough is enough, I promised to have higher integrity and that will include having someone on the outside tell us what we did right or wrong."

Others didn't see anything wrong with Clinton's actions.

"This is the way politics operates and almost all former presidents, key public leaders, party leaders do this for the president," Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, told Fox News.
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I would imagine that the Clintons are still pulling a lot of strings behind the scenes-with The One distracted by vacation and photo-op duty, the "Grownups" must be wanting to take control.