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A memo released Friday by White House Legal Counsel Bob Bauer reveals that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel enlisted the support of former President Bill Clinton last summer to offer Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) an unpaid, executive branch advisory board position with the Obama administration in exchange for dropping out of Pennsylvania's Senate race.

"Efforts were made ... to determine whether Congressman Sestak would be interested in service on a Presidential or other Senior Executive Branch Advisory Board, which wold avoid a divisive Senate primary," the memo states.

In February, Sestak acknowledged during a television interview that he was, in fact, offered a position, prompting a heated response from Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee, who charged that the alleged deal could have violated the law.

However, in Friday's memo, Bauer states that the interaction between Clinton and the Pennsylvania Senate candidate was neither illegal nor unethical.

"There was no ... impropriety," the memo reads. "Such discussions are fully consistent with the relevant law and ethical requirements."

However, one prominent Republican disagrees with the White House's conclusion.

"The White House has admitted today to coordinating an arrangement that would represent an illegal quid-pro-quo," Rep. Darrell Issa, the ranking member on the House Government Affairs and Oversight Committee, said in a statement Friday. "Federal law prohibits directly or indirectly offering any position or appointment, paid or unpaid, in exchange for favors connected with an election."

The conversations between Sestak and Clinton reportedly took place in June and July of last year, a number of months after Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) switched parties. Sestak ultimately defeated Specter in the state's Democratic primary earlier this month.

Geoff Holtzman and Justin Duckham contributed to this report