Exactly 100 days since U.S. Representative Joe Sestak’s (D-PA) first reportedly revealed that the Obama Administration offered him a job in exchange for dropping out of the Pennsylvania Democrat Senate primary, a new White House report released today and former President Bill Clinton both imply that the Democrat Senate nominee lied or embellished his original claims. As the New York Times reported today:

President Obama’s chief of staff used former President Bill Clinton as an intermediary to see if Representative Joe Sestak would drop out of Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senate primary if given a prominent, but unpaid, advisory position, the White House said on Friday.

Rahm Emanuel, the chief of staff, asked Mr. Clinton last summer to explore “options of service” on a presidential or senior government advisory board with Mr. Sestak, the White House said in a statement. Mr. Sestak said no and went on to win last week’s primary against Senator Arlen Specter.

However, Sestak has repeatedly and publicly claimed on numerous occasions that he was offered a federal job in exchange for his departure from the Democrat Senate primary, even implying that he was offered the position of Secretary of the Navy, as reported earlier this week on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. CLICK HERE TO WATCH

• On March 10, 2010, Fox News’ Bret Baier pointedly asked Sestak: “Did the White House offer you a job to not get in the primary?” Sestak answered: “And I answered that yes, and I answered it honestly.”

• On March 20, 2010, Fox News’ Neil Cavuto asked Sestak: “In order to get you out of the Senate race the White House offered you a job. Is that true?” Sestak responded: “I got asked that question as you know a few weeks ago, of something that happened last summer, a direct question. I answered it honestly, and I said yes.

• On April 22, 2010, NBC’s Savannah Guthrie asked Sestak: “Were you offered a job in the administration not to run?” Sestak responded: “The answer, as I was asked this for the first time a month ago even though it happened last July, and I never brought it forward. I answered it honestly, and I’ll do it again. Yes.”

• On May 24, 2010, CNN’s John King asked Sestak: “You said some time ago that when Arlen Specter was still in the race, early in the primary somebody at the White House came to you and said I will offer you a job, will give you some kind of a job if you would get out.” Sestak responded: “Well I was actually asked by a reporter something that a few months ago that had happened almost eight months earlier…  And I answered it honestly… I said – and I did answer it honestly and said yes…”

Today’s White House report contradicts Sestak’s claims by stating that the candidate was offered only an unpaid advisory role – not a job – and that it was offered by Clinton – not by a White House or Administration official. The report also fails to explain what other paid positions Sestak was offered, apart from the Secretary of the Navy.

“Who is telling the truth? The White House, which claims that they enlisted President Clinton’s assistance to entice Joe Sestak out of a Senate race with an unpaid advisory position? Or Sestak, who has repeatedly asserted and failed to refute reports that he was offered a federal job by the Obama Administration? asked National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokeswoman Amber Marchand.

“This report directly contradicts Joe Sestak’s repeated claims, and there are still a number of unanswered questions that the White House is attempting to sweep under the rug while Americans are not looking. Joe Sestak needs to speak up immediately and explain whether he over-exaggerated his original claims, or whether the White House is downplaying the offer that he received,” Marchand concluded.

The NRSC posed the following questions for Sestak and the Obama White House in an effort to restore “accountability” for the people of Pennsylvania:

• Why did President Obama enlist former President Clinton as his emissary to offer Joe Sestak a job in order to get out of the Senate primary?
• Why was it necessary for the White House to contact Sestak’s brother before releasing its “report,” and what was the nature of the conversation?
• Why does the White House “report” gloss over the question of whether Sestak was  offered a paid position other than Secretary of the Navy?
• Why didn’t Robert Gibbs explain this at the outset, instead of ducking and dodging these legitimate questions for months?
• Why didn’t Joe Sestak ever speak up and explain that it was not a federal official who offered him this position, and that he was not in fact offered a job, but an unpaid appointment?
• Why did Joe Sestak have to wait until the White House contacted him and issued a statement before he relayed what happened to the American people? 

Is that how Sestak would work as a Senator – always taking his orders from the White House and parroting talking points from his party bosses?