October 24, 2011/Olathe, KS/Operation Rescue --Former Kansas attorney general, Phill Kline, is entitled to a public apology from former governor and current Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius; Kansas disciplinary administrator, Stan Hazlett; former attorney general, Paul Morrison; Carol A. Beier, Kansas Supreme Court, and others; after which they should resign from their current positions, elected or appointed.
By admin on October 24, 2011 10:41 AM
Olathe, KS — In light of the destruction of evidence that was critical to the prosecution of a Kansas Planned Parenthood on , Judge Stephen Tatum has delayed a preliminary hearing today and set a status conference for November 9 at 11 AM.
Last week news broke that that the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) under the Administration of former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius after they had been subpoenaed by then-Attorney General Phill Kline in 2004 in his investigations of the non-reporting of child sex abuse and illegal late-term abortions. Those forms were the basis for 23 felony charges against Planned Parenthood related to manufacturing evidence.
Today, attorneys for Planned Parenthood made a motion for dismissal of those felony counts since the original records had been destroyed. Judge Tatum declined and gave District Attorney Steve Howe until the status conference on November 9 to provide the court with a chain of custody in order to allow copies of the abortion reports obtained through subpoena to be used as evidence if the case proceeds to trail.
“It is unconscionable that Sebelius’ KDHE destroyed those documents knowing they had been subpoenaed for a criminal investigation,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “That willful destruction of evidence was a blatant act to protect Planned Parenthood from being held accountable to the law. Those who ordered that evidence be destroyed should be held accountable for obstruction of justice in a court of law.”
Judge Richard Anderson had informed Kline’s successor, Paul Morrison, that he believed the KDHE reporting forms in Planned Parenthood’s records were manufactured. After that, Morrison issued a letter “clearing” Planned Parenthood of any wrongdoing. Morrison that attempted to disgorge them of the evidence against Kansas’ largest abortion supplier, knowing the evidence incriminated Planned Parenthood. Anderson later expressed regret for having informed Morrison, who in turn may have tipped off Planned Parenthood that their attempt to cover their crimes had been found out.
Morrison was hand-picked by Sebelius to run against Kline in 2006. It is estimated that over a million dollars of abortion money flowed in off the books to benefit Morrison’s vicious campaign against Kline. Morrison had promised to end the abortion clinic investigations. Less than a year after Morrison was sworn in as Attorney General, news broke that Morrison was embroiled in a sex and abortion scandal where it was discovered that he had attempted to use his illicit lover in the District Attorney’s office to spy on Kline’s abortion investigations that proceeded during his term as Johnson County District Attorney so Morrison could thwart them. Morrison was forced to resign.
Sebelius then appointed Steve Six as Attorney General. Soon after taking office in early 2008, Six discovered that Anderson and KDHE had been subpoenaed to testify about the manufactured records. He immediately rushed to the Kansas Supreme Court and obtained a gag order on Anderson and the evidence, delaying the case until now.
This case puts in danger $350 million in Federal Title X funding that the organization now receives nationwide. In order to qualify for Title X funds, an organization must obey all State and Federal laws. A conviction in Kansas would disqualify Planned Parenthood affiliates from receiving funding. Sebelius, who now serves as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Obama administration, has made it clear that tax funding of abortion and support for Planned Parenthood, her dedicated political supporter and contributor, is a high priority.
An ethics panel recently recommended indefinite suspension for Kline’s law license based on his handling of the abortion investigations even though the Supreme Court, District Court Judge Clark Owens, and even the Disciplinary Administrator’s own investigators cleared Kline of any wrongdoing. His prosecution was politically motivated to discredit the case he filed against Planned Parenthood. It contrast, an ethics complaint against Morrison, who behaved shamefully with his illicit lover in public buildings during business hours then became abusive of his paramour when she would not cooperate with is efforts to subvert Kline’s abortion investigations, was not pursued.
“This case hangs on a razor’s edge. Pro-abortion politicians have already wrongly ruined the career of one prosecutor who tried to enforce the law in order to protect Planned Parenthood’s interests. Now it remains to be seen if justice or corruption will prevail,” said Newman. Operation Rescue.
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2 comments:
I've been following this story. It just disgusts me how the media is ignoring it, although I am not surprized. If this had been a Republican governor shreding papers to cover up some other investigation you can be sure she & her cohorts would have been forced to resign by now.
That having been said, this is a prime example of the corrupt union between Sibelius & the abortion industry. She gets a pass while Kline is being railroaded.
Like you said though, this won't go away. & hopefully by the time it is done, Kline will be totally exhonorated & Sibelius et al facing obstruction of justice charges.
Thanks, Al. I'm now hoping, other honest lawmakers who know something about the corruption will now have the courage to corroborate what Kline has been doing and saying.
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