As House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) says, there’s three sides to every story:

... well, now we have it. Admiral Sestak has repeatedly said he was offered a ‘job’ in an effort to obtain his withdrawal from the Senate Primary. The White House has said ‘efforts were made in June AND July� in said job as well as the admission that they ‘enlisted’ former President Clinton to make the overture. President Clinton says he ‘never tried to get Sestak out of the race.’ Who’s telling the truth?�

Truth here can't just be in the eyes of the beholder, one party or the other (two) are being less than truthful.

Jeff Dunetz confirmed the WBRE report with the station's evening assignment manager, and flat out says someone’s lying, recalls that at the time the Clinton involvement was first announced back in May, he thought it kind of "smelled." Dunetz is right on both counts; assuming WBRE has this right, someone is indeed lying - and the story still stinks like rotten fish. Comparing Clinton's comments to WBRE to what Sestack and the White House said at the time, one just doesn't add up with the other. Then, contributing to the air of sleaze, came White House Attorney Robert Bauer's disclosure at the end of May when President Clinton's involvement was announced - after Obama failed to answer a simple question about the Sestak offer:

{...} We found that, as the Congressman has publicly and accurately stated, options for Executive Branch service were raised with him. Efforts were made in June and July of 2009 to determine whether Congressman Sestak would be interested in service on a Presidential or other Senior Executive Branch Advisory Board, which would avoid a divisive Senate primary, allow him to retain his seat in the House, and provide him with an opportunity for additional service to the public in a high-level advisory capacity for which he was highly qualified. The advisory positions discussed with Congressman Sestak, while important to the work of the Administration, would have been uncompensated.

White House staff did not discuss these options with Congressman Sestak. The White House Chief of Staff enlisted the support of former President Clinton who agreed to raise with Congressman Sestak options of service on a Presidential or other Senior Executive Branch Advisory Board. Congressman Sestak declined the suggested alternatives, remaining committed to his Senate candidacy.

Relationship to Senate Campaign. It has been suggested that discussions of alternatives to the Senate campaign were improperly raised with the Congressman. There was no such impropriety. The Democratic Party leadership had a legitimate interest in averting a divisive primary fight and a similarly legitimate concern about the Congressman vacating his seat in the House. By virtue of his career in public service, including distinguished military service, Congressman Sestak was viewed to be highly qualified to hold a range of advisory positions in which he could, while holding his House seat, have additional responsibilities of considerable potential interest to him and value to the Executive Branch.

Notice the "We found." In other words, the WH investigated itself and we're suppose to take the Obama administration at its word. And we're also to believe that Sestak would give up a paying job for a made-up (on the fly) position on a yet to be made-up advisory board.

Yeah, right! And I guess we're also suppose to believe that the moon's made up of green cheese with little green men living on it too.

Hat tip - Ed Morrissey