Aug 17, 2015 2 min read

In the days after she was indicted on multiple felony counts of leaking grand jury information and then lying about it under oath, many observers described the fall of Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane as a “tragedy” or, more specifically, a “Greek tragedy.”

We could be at the point, however, where tragedy has descended into farce, to borrow a phrase from Karl Marx.

First, Kane showed up at her Aug. 8 arraignment in Norristown with five – yes, five – burly, sunglasses-sporting security agents in tow. This is something you would perhaps expect if Taylor Swift were making a run into Norristown’s courthouse, or maybe a high-ranking federal official, but not the Keystone State’s attorney general. The reason for the beefed-up entourage? They were “making sure Kathleen Kane doesn’t become a victim of organized cartels,” spokesman Chuck Ardo told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Drug lords going after Kathleen Kane? Really? The timing of this nefarious threat seems more than a little coincidental.

Then, last Wednesday, she stood in front of assembled reporters in Harrisburg, strenuously professed her innocence, and suggested the case against her was being orchestrated by camarilla of state officials engulfed by the “Porngate” email scandal who do not want the full extent of their misdeeds to be exposed.

“Some involved in this filthy email chain have tried desperately to ensure that these emails, and more importantly their attachment to it, never saw the light of day,” Kane said.

Kane is entitled to the presumption of innocence, and she can assemble any kind of defense she wants. But this stretches credulity to its limits. The defense seems to be based on the notion of, “Hey! Don’t look at me! Look over there!”

Another question: Why didn’t she blame the cartels?