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1. Speaking of memory issues. I wonder if Kane remembered that she signed that form. The government has to prove she remembered that she did when she said that she didn’t. A tough task … unless they have a mind-reader.

   This case is going to be an EMBARRASSMENT to Ferman and Steele. They have zero credible evidence that Kane illegally leaked anything. And the Perjury charges are complete BS – desperate nonsense from prosecutors who should have trusted their instincts and stayed away from this whole mess.

2. Illustrative of the point made regarding the poverty of short-term memory exhibited by AG-Kane’s supporters is the following [the author of which probably wishes had been forgotten]:

   Kanetruth says:
   October 6, 2015 at 7:46 pm
   Ok kids…Thursday the game changes…pay attention

   https://www.politicspa.com/kane-is-being-sued-by-former-aide/69738/comment-page-1/#comment-1039008

3. sklaroff – you sound mental. go take a nap.

4. @ MTG:

   Don’t get exercised when trying to deal with DD & Ha3; they will twist the most recent posting [see “Turing Machine”] and ignore any type of consistency with prior assertions.

5. MTG-

   What McCord did with his threats of using his position to shakedown donors was a REAL crime. Not the petty bullsh*t that they are trying to smear Kane with.

   But, you asked if I thought she intentionally lied, and I said that I don’t think she did. But, even if she did, I don’t consider it a crime in the first place.

6. Shill-Boy,

   I have “answered” that question MANY times in previous comments. Kane SHOULD NOT resign until some of the stuff that Fina & The Corbett Pervs allege is proven in court. There MUST be a trial (my popcorn will be ready). And then – after a TRIAL – Kane should be held accountable if she is convicted. Jait-time would be appropriate.

   Sorry to take the wind out of your shill-sails, but I have NEVER blindly supported Kane. I think she was in-over-her-head from the start and handled the smear campaign very poorly. If she broke the law to get even with a political enemy, she should pay … even if that political enemy is a pervert creep racist pig.

7. Before you slam that mic, your premise is wrong. Kane ran on the promise to look into the investigation to see if Corbett slowed his roll on Sandusky for political purposes. Moulton clearly found that he did not. Fina, McGettigan, and other prosecutors were vindicated. The porn emails were an incidental find and, therefore, could not have been a motivating factor. Even if all that is true, “look at what that guy did” is never a defense to criminal charges.

   You still did not answer the question. If Kane admits wrongdoing in a guilty plea colloquy, do you still refuse to accept it? Because that would be “shill boy” behavior.

8. Here’s some “substance” for you, shill-boy:

   More and more, people are starting to understand what really happened. It’s actually simple. Kane ran on a promise to look into Fina’s Sandusky investigation. Right there – Fina had motive to smear Kane.

   Then Kane found the 20,000,000 e-mails that Ryan thought he had successfully deleted before Kane took office. You see – when Kane won, the perverts and racists and woman-haters got scared that the truth would come out about what they were doing with their State computers … so they tried to destroy the evidence.

   In the e-mails they tried to destroy, Kane found the offensive, disgusting, racist garbage we are now reading about. Once she found it, Fina & The Corbett Pervs redoubled their efforts to smear Kane, who subsequently messed up and may have committed crimes.
   Along the way – Fina & The Corbett Pervs committed NUMEROUS crimes themselves – funneling TONS of protected GJ material to Craig and Angela at the INKY, who were co-conspirators IMO.

   There are lots of characters involved and lots of twists and turns … but the premise is simple. Kane had the goods on a tone of powerful people who therefore went on the attack.

   \\ Slams mic \\

9. HaHaHa, I don’t think I have seen a single post where you say anything of substance. I’m trying to figure out whether Diano will continue to call BS in the event that our criminal justice system produces a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt.

   In other words, does Diano dismiss our entire justice system when the defendant is a Democrat politician? Unfortunately, I think the answer is yes (which makes you wonder what he thinks about McCord, Pawlowski, Washington, and all those Philly Democrats who admitted in open court that they made a mistake and broke the law). I would guess that you give them a pass too, but that would require some higher level thought that you have not yet demonstrated in a single comment. Diano at least roams the trackless bounds of his imagination to find a way to excuse corrupt Democrats from accountability.

   But at the end of the day, if Kane admits her offenses in open court, does Diano still call BS? If a jury finds that the evidence leads to guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, does Diano still call BS? We know what HaHaHa thinks about the issue: shills, Corbett Pervs, etc. All very clever and witty.

10. MTG – Nobody cares what you think (or type). It is clear you are a shill for Fina & The Corbett Pervs … or actually one of the Corbett Pervs. You admit that you worked at the OAG. Perhaps you are “kanesdriver” under yet another new name. Either way – your credibility is shot.

    Below, you agree with a mental patient (sklaroff). Time to give your keyboard a rest.

11. Sklaroff, I think you’re right.

    Diano, given everything you just said — and apparently nobody can convince you that memory is not going to be a defense to perjury — if Kane pleads guilty and admits to the crimes in open court, surely you will accept at that point that she did in fact commit the crimes of which she is accused. Alternatively, if a jury hears all the facts — including this nonsense about poor memory if her attorneys are desperate enough to offer that as a defense –and they decide, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Kane is guilty, surely you will accept at that point that Kane intentionally broke the law. Am I right about that, or even in the face of evidence beyond doubt and even Kane’s admission, will you still continue to claim that this is all “minor” and “bullshit”?

12. @ MTG:

    DD will continue to believe his own “B.S.” regardless of any external judgment [including AG-Kane’s!]. [translation]

13. Multi Tasker General-

    No. I don’t think she intentionally lied on the perjury charges.

    I think she didn’t remember signing that oath among the hundreds of papers she signed upon entering office, or that the document even existed.

    As for the other perjury charge, it’s a he-said-she-said with her having a different recollection of the conversations that don’t fit the prosecutor’s narrative. There may have been other conversations that came before/after the conversations that were part of the testimony that she mixed together in her memory or contradict the other witnesses.

    I’ve had MANY meetings with my boss where afterwards he’s completely misunderstood the conversation and issued instructions to staff in total contradiction to what we agreed upon, in the mistaken belief it’s what I asked for. Given that, it’s completely credible for Kane’s account to be her honest recollection/interpretation of what occurred.

    Note: Nearly everyone of you anti-Kane f*ckers has called her delusional. So by your own opinion of her, you have to acknowledge that she could believe what she is saying is how things actually happened.

    Heck, she could just walk into court at her trial and say that she got no sleep the night before her grand jury testimony was having trouble recalling events. Or hadn’t slept well during the time of the events in question so that she doesn’t recall them clearly. Sleep is when our brains process information into long term memory. Any disruption of her sleep pattern could account for gaps or errors in her recollection.

    Also, there are dozens of over-the-counter medicines (cough syrup and antihistamines) that have confusion as one of side effects.

    This is one of the many reasons why the perjury charges are total bullsh*t.

14. Diano, I understand your feelings about the charges, but Pennsylvania law says that what she is charged with is a felony. So, with that being said about PA law, I am asking you whether you will accept that she did in fact knowingly commit a felony if she pleads guilty or is found guilty. “Guilty” means that the facts showed beyond a reasonable doubt that the person committed the offense. So, I’m not asking whether you think this conduct SHOULD be a felony — it just is — but rather you will accept that she did the conduct she is accused of in the event of a conviction.

15. MTG-
    I give up. You are correct. Kane is guilty and should be thrown in prison. I just feel so strongly that even Democrats who are criminals are better than Republicans because everything is about party lines…not facts.

16. @ MTG:

    DD will continue to believe his own “B.S.” regardless of any external judgment. [translation]

17. MTG-

    How much clearer can I be that I don’t consider a single one of the charges against her to be remotely criminal, even if they were true?

    The entire case is a farce and an abuse of prosecutorial and judicial discretion. The people bringing these charges are guilty of far worse crimes and should be the ones behind bars.

18. Diano, please tell me: when Kane is convicted — either by way of a guilty plea or a jury verdict — will you accept this guilt beyond a reasonable doubt or will you spin it as “minor” or “buillshit”? Keep in mind before answering that it could come with a state prison term.

19. Pennsylvania voters disapprove 52 – 24 percent of the job State Attorney General Kathleen Kane is doing and say 46 – 32 percent that she should resign.

    http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/2016-presidential-swing-state-polls/release-detail?ReleaseID=2288

20. Noting the coda [“Kane’s approval ratings are awful at just 24%. 52% disapprove of the job she is doing.”], it is increasingly likely that her continued “service” will perform a “disservice” to her political party.

21. BREAKING NEWS:
    NEW CHARGES FILED AGAINST KANE…

    Late this evening, the Montco DA, with a SWAT team and a warrant, descended upon the A.G.’s offices and caught Kane alone in her office smoking a cigarette, in violation of the non-smoking policy in government buildings. The DA is also filing charges of attempted arson and was seen exiting the building with a cigarette lighter in an evidence bag, that will be sent to forensics for fingerprints and DNA analysis.

    They are adding another perjury charge because Kane once declined an offered cigarette, claiming she didn’t smoke.

    Kane could not be reached for comment. However, her spokesman Chuck Ardo said the offer of a cigarette was entrapment by police undercover officers intentionally offering Kane a brand she didn’t like, and Kane was merely being polite.

    Gene Silp filed another request to the PA Disciplinary Board calling for the revocation of her law license over this latest outrage by Kane.

22. When will William Ryan, Chairman of the PA Gaming Control Board, resign for destroying 20,000,000 emails housed in the servers of the Office of the Attorney General?

    Did Corbett order the destruction?

23. Larry

    The “multiple” felonies are two bullsh*t perjury charges, that shouldn’t even be crimes/misdemeanors. Completely bogus.

    And, “accused”, not convicted.

24. Now THAT was funny

25. I should note, however, that I’m a bit biased, because I stare at a photo of Frank Fina as I bite down on my ball gag and pull the leather straps tight. What follows is self-abuse so violent and utterly delicious that I dream of Frank doing it himself.

26. H3 – there are people here who REALLY want to be like you!!! Observer #3 might be onto something too. Are the Fina shills trying to say it was okay for them to allow Sandusky to continue raping children – as long as there weren’t any “new” children being raped???

27. So – this H3 copy-cat was there to see Moulton looking “stunned”?? I wonder who it is!! Maybe it is @kanesdriver – an exposed double-dealer – an Agent of the OAG who has been leaking information here.

    Read the trial transcripts. The prosecutors state that Sandusky raped children while Fina and Corbett sat on their hands doing nothing.

    BTW – there do not have to be “additional victims” for Sandusky to have raped children while Fina and Corbett dilly-dallied – unless you are suggesting they the 65th anal rape of a child is somehow not terrible.

28. I am so happy to be on the side of Kathy’s Krazy Klan, where we claim, against all evidence to the contrary, that there were additional victims of Sandusky during the OAG investigation. Kathy herself even had to retract a statement to that effect after she blurted it out and Moulton sat there stunned. Don’t worry, Kathy, we’ll make claims without evidence on your behalf! And we’ll cite to Jonelle Eshbach’s email, even though it says nothing about there being a new victim!

29. H3 copy-cat:

    Please explain why there has been “no comment” by Fina recently? Back in the day, he challenged the AG to a televised debate. That was BEFORE Kane found the e-mails he thought were destroyed. Now, it’s nothing but “No comment.” And why is it that he now has a lawyer? Previously, before his e-mails were discovered, he said “I AM a lawyer; I don’t NEED a lawyer.” Yet now he has one … Go figure.

    BTW – Moulton found that there were unnecessary delays in the arrest/prosecution of Sandusky. And, try as he may to call Sandusky’s final victim “not credible,” Sandusky did rape children while Fina and Corbett dilly-dallied. Just look at the e-mails from the OAG prosecutor that was imploring Fina to approve the arrest.

30. Dale, I should clarify that Kane ran on the promise to examine how the Sandusky case was investigated and prosecuted, especially to see whether Corbett’s politics played a role. Her objective special counsel — Geoffrey Moulton — found nothing wrong with how it went. But they stumbled onto these emails, which Kane is now using as the perfect distraction from her own criminal conduct.

    So, because I am not an honest person, I am going to pretend that her goal all along was to “clean up the justice system.”

31. Dale -Did you see this comment below? It is a short, simple summary of the Kane saga:

    More and more, people are starting to understand what really happened. It’s actually simple. Kane ran for AG on a promise to look into Fina’s Sandusky investigation. Right there – Fina had motive to smear Kane.

    Then Kane found the 20,000,000 e-mails that Ryan thought he had successfully deleted before Kane took office. You see – when Kane won, the perverts and racists and woman-haters got scared that the truth would come out about what they were doing with their State computers … so they tried to destroy the evidence.

    In the e-mails they tried to destroy, Kane found the offensive, disgusting, racist garbage we are now reading about. Once she found it, Fina & The Corbett Pervs redoubled their efforts to smear Kane, who subsequently messed up and may have committed crimes.
    Along the way – Fina & The Corbett Pervs committed NUMEROUS crimes themselves – funneling TONS of protected GJ material to Craig and Angela at the INKY, who were co-conspirators IMO.

    There are lots of characters involved and lots of twists and turns … but the premise is simple. Kane had the goods on a tone of powerful people who therefore went on the attack.

32. Pat has certainly looked at things from a few more angles that I have, I will admit to that. Very good perspective, or perspectives – and a lot of bad eggs it seems, you are right. I would love to hear and read what everyone is doing for the state, not doing to cover up for what happened when and by whom – who is minding the state while all this is going on…

33. Dale,

    It sounds like you are saying exactly what the Attorney General has been saying: Prove it in court!!

    But the rules of the game don’t change now. For over a year, Kane’s detractors have been on the war-path – desperately trying to keep their e-mails hidden from the public. They used the Press. They used the criminal justice system. They may have used Seth Williams.

    That crew – the ones behind the smear campaign – don’t get to now ask that all of this happen in court. They can’t have their cake and eat it too. They lived by the sword. And they will now die by the sword. They relentlessly attacked the duly elected Attorney General of PA. They used many questionable tactics. Their antics are as dangerous (perhaps more so) than those of Kane. After all – she is alleged to have been responsible for one leak. Fina and his pals seem to be behind hundreds of leaks. We now know that they used their State computers to view and distribute racist, woman-hating, perverted material. That’s a crime. They prosecuted others for such behavior.

    There are lots of bad eggs in this carton. Not just one.

34. Dear Readers:

    A person doing a crime cannot hide behind “oh, yeah, look what Johnny did!”

    We in this country expect our officials to refrain from committing a crime while in office, and in some cases as this – two crimes – a leak, and then perjury. If someone says they have done so, then let it go to the proper authorities to decide, and a jury if need be. To say that one can do a crime because someone else did a crime too and that caused them to do that second crime is not proper for the citizens of this state.
    I really do hope our higher officials do the right thing and stand up for what is right – then do what is right. Popularity polls have no place in crimes, or alleged crimes. If they did, all a defendant needs to do is stack the courtroom with his/her supporters and the judge takes a vote.
    This is what a jury is for, so let it be.
    Perhaps K. Kane is right – let a jury decide.
    Perhaps there is so much silliness going on at higher levels that it needs to come out – let a jury decide.

35. you are fake, aaron

36. Diano, she is accused of multiple felonies. Felonies, by definition, are not minor or petty. And if she were a Republican, you would be beside yourself with glee as you called for her ouster from office.

37. rsklaroff-

    In this country, we don’t force elected people out of office based upon polls, especially when they have not been convicted in court (and the pending charges are ridiculously minor and petty).

38. As is often the case, “the last 1% of a conversation yields 99% of its true impact” [paraphrased].

    Noting the codea [“Kane’s approval ratings are awful at just 24%. 52% disapprove of the job she is doing.”], it is increasingly likely that her continued “service” will perform a “disservice” to her political party.

    Otherwise, one would reasonably anticipate [after having held a few chats last night with in-the-know journalists] that her days are numbered [noting Wolf’s adamant opposition to her remaining].

39. All quotes of aaron are fake aaron.

40. This might be the best summary of this whole saga I have ever read:

    From the other article about Eakin’s e-mails — People are starting to understand what really happened. It’s actually simple. Kane ran on a promise to look into Fina’s Sandusky investigation. Right there – Fina had motive to smear Kane.

    Then Kane found the 20,000,000 e-mails that Ryan thought he had successfully deleted before Kane took office. You see – when Kane won, the perverts and racists and woman-haters got scared that the truth would come out about what they were doing with their State computers … so they tried to destroy the evidence.

    In the e-mails they tried to destroy, Kane found the offensive, disgusting, racist garbage we are now reading about. Once she found it, Fina & The Corbett Pervs redoubled their efforts to smear Kane, who subsequently messed up and may have committed crimes.
    Along the way – Fina & The Corbett Pervs committed NUMEROUS crimes themselves – funneling TONS of protected GJ material to Craig and Angela at the INKY, who were co-conspirators IMO.

    There are lots of characters involved and lots of twists and turns … but the premise is simple. Kane had the goods on a tone of powerful people who therefore went on the attack.

41. It is sad to me because my bosses are getting exposed as racists.

42. Seriously..has she not yet resigned…this is sad.

43. Dear fake me, it is obvious that you are fake, because you didn’t even mention Repervlicans or Corbett Pervs or a Clown Car. That’s my standard rhetoric, in lieu of substantive thought.

44. Also, fake me, don’t even suggest that Kane — who was caught breaking the law — should resign. But Eakin, who received some dirty emails AND turned them over to the Judicial Conduct Board over a year ago — should resign immediately.

45. Dear fake me:

    I understand your frustration. This whole thing has gone sideways on you. Thesmear campaign did not work to achieve your intended results – the resignation of Kane and the cover-up of your own disgusting conduct.

    And while most rational observers want to see Kane held accountable if she committed a crime, we also want to see the whole picture. We want to make sure racist, misogynistic creeps are not holding important jobs where they get paid by the taxpayers.

    Eakin should have the dignity to resign (like McCaffery did). He is doing the Courts of PA a huge disservice at this point.

46. So let me emphasize once again, we should completely ignore all crimes committed by our dear Princess Kathleen Kane, for she found a great distraction involving PORN EMAILS and REPERVLICANS and a CLOWN CAR. It does not matter that she was caught red-handed breaking the law. It does not matter that Geoffrey Moulton’s report clearly indicated that there were no improprieties in the investigation of Sandusky. ALL THAT MATTERS is the accidental finding of PORN EMAILS, even though that had nothing to do with the Sandusky investigation that HER HIGHNESS ran on.

47. RJ – more and more, people are starting to understand what really happened. It’s actually simple. Kane ran on a promise to look into Fina’s Sandusky investigation. Right there – Fina had motive to smear Kane.

    Then Kane found the 20,000,000 e-mails that Ryan thought he had successfully deleted before Kane took office. You see – when Kane won, the perverts and racists and woman-haters got scared that the truth would come out about what they were doing with their State computers … so they tried to destroy the evidence.

    In the e-mails they tried to destroy, Kane found the offensive, disgusting, racist garbage we are now reading about. Once she found it, Fina & The Corbett Pervs redoubled their efforts to smear Kane, who subsequently messed up and may have committed crimes.

    Along the way – Fina & The Corbett Pervs committed NUMEROUS crimes themselves – funneling TONS of protected GJ material to Craig and Angela at the INKY, who were co-conspirators IMO.

    There are lots of characters involved and lots of twists and turns … but the premise is simple. Kane had the goods on a tone of powerful people who therefore went on the attack.

48. I’m still not sure most Pennsylvanians even understand the entire Kane scandal.

49. More like everyone with half a brain thinks Kane should resign!

50. A plurality … LMAO ….