Paul Morrison cleared in mistress probe

After nine months, a pair of special prosecutors has cleared former Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison of criminal wrongdoing in an investigation of his conduct during an extramarital affair.

Morrison’s political nemesis, Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline, handpicked Tim Keck and Robert Arnold to investigate allegations that Morrison used his affair with Linda Carter to attempt to spy on Kline’s investigation of abortion clinics and influence a lawsuit filed by eight DA’s Office employees whom Kline had fired.

Keck and Arnold were also charged with investigating Morrison for supposedly blackmailing Carter and harassing her over the phone.

“While we are certain, based on his own statements at the time of his resignation, he is mortified by his conduct; such conduct is not of a nature warranting prosecution,” Keck and Arnold say in a statement released this afternoon.