Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane is facing a grand jury probe on, well, whether she violated the secrecy rules of yet another grand jury, the Philadelphia Inquirer's Angela Couloumbis and Craig R. McCoy report. Kane has acknowledged that ther office released information to the Philadelphia Daily News about a grand jury case that her Republican predecessors ran looking into alleged financial improprieties of J. Whyatt Mondesire, the former president of the Philadelphia NAACP. Kane argues that "that Pennsylvania law has no statute that binds an attorney general to grand jury secrecy. The state law establishing investigative grand juries makes no mention of the attorney general. Rather it imposes secrecy rules on the participants in the jury room, and it names them — 'juror, attorney, interpreter, stenographer.'"
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