 Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have asked Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate allegations that the White House offered a job to Rep. Joe Sestak to drop out of the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary. Weich said a special prosecutor won't be needed because the Justice Department "has a long history of handling investigations of high level officials professionally and independently, without the need to appoint a special counsel." "It's very clear that allegation is one that everyone from Arlen Spector to Dick Morris has said is in fact a crime, and could be impeachable," said Issa, who is threatening to file an ethics compliant if Sestak doesn't provide more details about the alleged job offer. "Congressman Sestak should tell the public everything he knows about the job he was offered, and who offered it," Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey said in a written statement. "So you have the people who are representing the people who potentially committed the crime are making the determinations as to whether anything wrong happened. “I called Joe, and I said, ‘Joe, the polls show that Casey has a better chance to win.
– Republicans are calling for the attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Joe Sestak's claims that someone in the Obama administration offered him a high-ranking job to drop out of the Pennsylvania primary race against Arlen Specter. And they've already used the “I” word. “It's very clear that allegation is one that everyone from Arlen Specter to Dick Morris has said is in fact a crime, and could be impeachable,” Rep. Darrel Issa tells Fox News. The Justice Department rejected Issa's request for a special prosecutor last week, but Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans sent their own request yesterday, according to Politico. Sestak has repeatedly confirmed that someone offered him a job, but refused to say who or what job. Issa's threatened to file an ethics complaint if he does not open up on the matter. Democrat Dick Durbin actually agrees on that point. “At some point, Congressman Sestak needs to make it clear what happened,” he said.