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[CassidyIzABeast]

 

[Bronx-Man]

It's not about what's right, it's about WHATS FAIR!!!!

The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming.

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

No, she's being accused of and disbarred for leaking grand jury testimony and perjury, not for the initial email leaks.

Parsing Trojita's post and the OP, it reads like both the perjury charge and the leaked testimony were both in relation to the corruption case that she was investigating at the time.

In other words, she leaked suspicion of corruption testimony to the press, then lied about it in court.

Legally, she's obviously in the wrong, but morally? Ehh. Seems like she's the only one interested in cleaning out this nest of vipers, even if it's allegedly only on one side of the aisle.

Unless I'm missing something here.

 

[Cat Party]

Parsing Trojita's post and the OP, it reads like both the perjury charge and the leaked testimony were both in relation to the corruption case that she was investigating at the time.

In other words, she leaked suspicion of corruption testimony to the press, then lied about it in court.

Legally, she's obviously in the wrong, but morally? Ehh. Seems like she's the only one interested in cleaning out this nest of vipers, even if it's allegedly only on one side of the aisle.

Unless I'm missing something here.

You are. She leaked that grand jury testimony to embarrass a rival, not to fight corruption.

 

[ivysaur12]

Kathleen Kane is a monster, but the idea of her taking people down with her is sort of delicious.

 

[teruterubozu]

It's amazing to me that people in this day and age still use work e-mail to send sexually explicit material, on a government server no less.

 

[AbsolutBro]

Fuck no. Public officials should not have any privacy specifically when their actions were conducted through government channels.

Technically they don't. Because it is a government email system (or whatever system), it is all subject to FOIA already. As a federal employee, for example, any of my email is subject to FOIA requests.

I'm with the "Burn it all down" crowd. Too many people get elected or hired into public service positions, only to then fail to actually serve the public. It happens at every level, state and federal, and it's always disgusting.

 

[Head of Vengarl]

Well this is entertaining.

 

[Nemesis121]

See WWE this is a true heel...

 

[AbortedWalrusFetus]

Parsing Trojita's post and the OP, it reads like both the perjury charge and the leaked testimony were both in relation to the corruption case that she was investigating at the time.

In other words, she leaked suspicion of corruption testimony to the press, then lied about it in court.

Legally, she's obviously in the wrong, but morally? Ehh. Seems like she's the only one interested in cleaning out this nest of vipers, even if it's allegedly only on one side of the aisle.

Unless I'm missing something here.

Here's the summary as I understand it:

In March 2014 the Philadelphia Inquirer did a story explaining that Kathleen Kane ordered that an investigation into bribery by six Democratic officials be dropped, ostensibly because the cases were unwinnable (in reality the Philadelphia DA Seth Williams has successfully prosecuted many of them). Kane thought that the Inquirer got word of the bribery investigation through Frank Fina, the prosecutor that headed the investigation under her predecessor. In retaliation Kathleen Kane released confidential information about another case Fina worked on that was eventually dismissed, and she opened an investigation on the handling of the case. She lied on the stand about leaking that information, and reportedly directed her staff not to cooperate with authorities investigating her leak. She also started an initiative to go through the emails of other officials in the AGs office and released the details of those emails to the public as additional retaliation on those who opposed her.

Nothing she has done has been in the interest of fighting corruption. Nothing was whistleblowing. It was all retaliation for someone else making her look bad. I can find little evidence whatsoever that she even cares about potential corruption. While she was trying to tarnish the reputations of other government officials she violated the law by leaking grand jury testimony.

 

[MJPIA]

Scumbag going down in flames and in a blaze of glory

Spoiler

not really

dragging other scumbags with her.
Burn it all to the ground and then lets see what happens and go from there.

 

[Mammoth Jones]

It's amazing to me that people in this day and age still use work e-mail to send sexually explicit material, on a government server no less.

This really. WTF. That shit doesn't magically vanish into the ether...

 

[Zoe]

Technically they don't. Because it is a government email system (or whatever system), it is all subject to FOIA already. As a federal employee, for example, any of my email is subject to FOIA requests.

They are public via requests, but I'm not sure that means anyone within the system can release any party's records out of their own volition.

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

Here's the summary as I understand it:

In March 2014 the Philadelphia Inquirer did a story explaining that Kathleen Kane ordered that an investigation into bribery by six Democratic officials be dropped, ostensibly because the cases were unwinnable (in reality the Philadelphia DA Seth Williams has successfully prosecuted many of them). Kane thought that the Inquirer got word of the bribery investigation through Frank Fina, the prosecutor that headed the investigation under her predecessor. In retaliation Kathleen Kane released confidential information about another case Fina worked on that was eventually dismissed, and she opened an investigation on the handling of the case. She lied on the stand about leaking that information, and reportedly directed her staff not to cooperate with authorities investigating her leak. She also started an initiative to go through the emails of other officials in the AGs office and released the details of those emails to the public as additional retaliation on those who opposed her.

Nothing she has done has been in the interest of fighting corruption. Nothing was whistleblowing. It was all retaliation for someone else making her look bad. I can find little evidence whatsoever that she even cares about potential corruption. While she was trying to tarnish the reputations of other government officials she violated the law by leaking grand jury testimony.

Thank you for the clarification. In that case, I eagerly await seeing her out on her ass in addition to her embarrassing half the state.

 

[The Llama]

I'm a lawyer in Pennsylvania. Vote for user The Llama for PA Attorney General!

 

[Ayt]

To the people cheering her on, she's a scumbag. The best case scenario is she sends other scumbags down with her.

I wish more scumbags in positions of power would bring down other scumbags.

 

[BladeoftheImmortal]

This is what I'd do, too.

 

[Captain Tuttle]

To the people cheering her on, she's a scumbag. The best case scenario is she sends other scumbags down with her.

Exactly this.

It's been crazy to watch though, between Fattah Jr's ridiculous representation of himself in his trial (convicted on 22 counts) and this story it's been an interesting autumn in PA politics

 

[Woody Invincible]

Burn it all down, lady. This is delicious.

 

[FriedConsole]

Very similar to the Rick Perry charges against him after trying to get rid of a terrible DA. DAs have a lot of power to abuse when things go bad.

I hate Rick Perry but in this short attention span word you can ruin somebody because nobody has time for details.

 

[andycapps]

If you're gonna go out, do it with style.

Haha what's this from?