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Saturday, February 27, 2016

Porngate: Inside the XXX Emails that Exposed Pennsylvania's Polluted Politics

Kathleen Kane was stuck in her not-so-happy place. She preferred to avoid Pennsylvania's capital, the nerve center of its incestuous, dysfunctional political system. It seemed to change people, she thought, throwing their moral compass askew. But here she sat in her Harrisburg office in early 2014, a year into her tenure as the state's attention-grabbing attorney general, feeling the flawlessly arranged bookcases and canary-blue walls closing in.

A staffer marched into the office and beelined to Kane's desk, pressed into the corner of the room. Kane's steely blue eyes fell to a disc that was resting in the staffer's hand. "We're putting this on your computer because the information is important," he said bluntly. "But I recommend that you not look at these."

Why? Kane thought. It wasn't like the disc contained nuclear codes. All that was on there were old emails that had been sent and received by members of the attorney general's office before Kane occupied it.

So of course she opened up the files. She wasn't some wilting flower; she'd seen dead bodies and worked rape cases, and she prided herself on not being treated like the girl in the room. But when she started clicking, she was at first shocked, then repulsed, then a little—just a little—curious.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I believe our entire government is just like this , may God have mercy on the U.S. but come down with a vengeance toward these idiots.

Anonymous said...

The bosses try their best to prevent honest people from entering politics, or at least, prevent them from becoming successful. Once an honest person gets into a position of having access to information, the danger begins. That person must be compromised.

Kane was compromised. She was tricked into making mistakes. Those mistakes protected the guilty.

Anonymous said...

222 she asked Bill Clinton to campaign for her?! She wanted to clean up politics thou? Do you remember what he did, I do! I call BS.

Anonymous said...

No doubt the clowns we consider our leaders are the worst misfits of all

Unknown said...

a gov't employee trying to break up the good ol boys club a woman with more balls than a lot of men i know maybe one day she will be recognized as the great attorney general she could have been