If a private health insurer had engaged in the kind of criminal obstruction that Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been tied to in her home state of Kansas, it would be a federal case. Instead, it’s a non-story in the Washington press. Nothing to see here. Move along.
On Monday, a district judge in the Sunflower State suspended court proceedings in a high-profile criminal case against the abortion racketeers of Planned Parenthood. World Magazine, a Christian news publication, reported on new bombshell court filings showing that Kansas health officials “shredded documents related to felony charges the abortion giant faces.” World Magazine reported: “The health department failed to disclose that fact for six years, until it was forced to do so in the current felony case over whether it manufactured client records.”
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The records are at the heart of the fraud case against Planned Parenthood. Kansas health bureaucrats now shrug that the destruction of these key documents — which they sheepishly admitted had “certain idiosyncrasies” — was “routine.” Who oversaw the agency accused of destroying the evidence six years ago? Sebelius.
As governor of Kansas, Sebelius fought transparency motions in the proceedings tooth and nail for years. Prosecutors allege a long-running heinous cover-up to manufacture false records of patients who had late-term abortions — and to whitewash Planned Parenthood’s systemic failures to report child rape.
Former GOP state attorney general Phill Kline’s investigation turned up massive discrepancies in reported child-rape statistics compared to Planned Parenthood and the late late-term abortionist George Tiller’s bogus claims. Planned Parenthood of Overland Park and Tiller together performed abortions on 166 girls aged 14 and under and only reported one each to authorities. So, 164 cases of underage rape or statutory rape went unreported and were not investigated by authorities.
Where is Joe Biden to decry actual rape atrocities and Nancy Pelosi to decry dire hazards to women’s health when we need them?
A Kansas district judge found probable cause of criminality in the abortion providers’ records; another district judge found probable cause to believe Planned Parenthood committed 107 criminal acts. Sebelius’s response? A bloody ideological soul mate of Tiller’s, she launched a vengeful witch-hunt against Kline. The state ethics board accused him of lying. The left-wing state supreme court Sebelius appointed stymied Kline’s subpoenas and appeals.
Kline was cleared of all ethics violations. In fact, for 20 full months, the state’s disciplinary board for lawyers suppressed an internal investigative report concluding there was zero probable cause to justify the ethics complaints.
Where there’s obstructionist smoke, there’s corruption fire. Under Sebelius’s watch as governor, an inspector general also reported that her appointed health-policy board had “applied pressure to alter an audit report, restricted access to legal advice and threatened to fire her for meeting independently with legislators,” according to the Topeka Capital-Journal.
Entirely fitting, of course. The war on whistleblowers and inspectors general has been a hallmark of the current White House. And the radically pro-abortion-rights Sebelius has ruled ruthlessly from her Beltway perch: policing citizen critics of Obamacare through a taxpayer-funded Internet snitch brigade; threatening private companies and insurers who have increased rates to cope with Obamacare coverage mandates; lashing out at newspapers who dare report on the costly consequences of the federal law.
As she bullies private companies to meet discriminatory and arbitrary disclosure demands, Sebelius has yet to be held accountable for overseeing state government agencies that conspired to hide the deadly truth about the Big Government/Big Abortion alliance from taxpayers. Like her boss in Washington, Sebelius’s political playbook has a single page: Destroy the messenger.
I really don't know what is worse: the callous disregard for girls' health, even ignoring rape; or the Kansas governor being basically bought by by the money of the abortion industry. OR is it the willingness to cover up simple facts and records which show the truth, even refusing to enforce the law and the basic regulations on the books. OR is it the thug tactics to intimidate prosecutors and journalists asking questions about the industry's obvious violations. OR is it destroying a man's career through character assassination and no one being held accountable when he's exonerated but the damage is done. OR is the worst element the fact that this criminal is now promoted to be in charge of the health care decisions for the entire nation, through the vague Obamacare legislation which leaves most power in her hands or in unelected boards controlled by her? Criminal.
Thank you for writing this. The immoral decisions and mandates that have come under Sebelius' watch are heartbreaking to me. She (and Cecile) have guided so many men, women and CHILDREN down a misdirected path. I pray for her and Cecile to ammend their ways and start arming women and the poor with ways to enhance life.
Fred,
I can tell you what the worst is: it is the thousands of murdered infants who Planned Parenthood slaughtered with the support and connivance of Kathleen Sebelius...our current head of Health and Human Services. (There's an Orwellian irony for you.)
I hope the readership on this article is greater thant he number of comments would indicate. For all the supposed "substance over style" conservatives claim, it seems like foreign policy articles and articles like this one are eschewed for another "is Rick Perry stupid, is Romney inevitable, etc." article.
Agreed... HOWEVER... this piece was taken directly from Michelle's blog and even though I'm sure many (perhaps even a majority) of NRO readers are already aware of the basic facts revolving around this case, for those lacking such factual background their reaction must be excused if it's "huh?"
I'm just sayin'...
Michelle could have - and should have - re-written this piece so as to lay out the situation from the beginning as it has played out rather than simply assume all readers are familiar with this Kansas situation.
"The secretary is tied to criminal obstruction."
More like she herself IS criminal obstruction. She's not just tied to it, as iwth most of the degenerate fascist-commie Alinskyite 0 administration.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutly. It is clear that this administration is made up of amoral people and that the "system", including the courts, can do zip to contain their excesses and in some cases aids and abets.
I like to think most of her corruption would have come out during her confirmation process, and she, like Daschel, would have withdrawn. But her confirmation was rushed through because we couldn't be without the HHS secretary with the swine flu pandemic raging in the press coverage. Funny how there was so little impact on the health of Americans from that flu; Sebelius has contributed to the death of more Americans through abortion than swine flu ever could. Now, with DemoCare in place, she has a chance to beat her record on the oldest of us instead of the youngest.
"Sebelius has contributed to the death of more Americans through abortion than swine flu ever could"
I don't like big government, I don't like pro-abortion fanatics, and I despise the current administration. But I also don't like sloppy thinking. The 1918 Flu pandemic caused 50-100 million deaths worldwide. I seriously doubt that Sebelius has contributed in any way to that many abortions.
On the other hand, the presence of such a despicable lowlife political hack in charge in Washington would probably have made sure that a serious outbreak of Flu was much worse than it had to be.
The above post mentioned Americans and not the rest of the world. And I think it is fair to say the Sebelius contributed to more deaths via abortion in the US than the 1918 flu pandemic.
A couple of quick notes regarding reading comprehension. 1) the above comment was not directed at the 1918 flu epidemic - rather it was aimed at the most recent "swine" flu scare. 2) By reading the whole comment, the point that is made is that Sebelius was rushed through confirmation to deal with the swine flu epidemic which was sure to kill all Americans - well, maybe that is hyperbole but I do remember being terribly terrified of birds, especially after seeing Hitchcock's film. Had she not been rushed though confirmation, the process most surely would have shed light on her nefarious past.
Oh, but it's all about the chiiiiiiiiildren! And it's all about "women's health". When I hear the expression "Women's Health", I know it means only one thing: abortions for any woman for any reason, all under the guise of "women's health". What a crock.
