The perjury trial of former PA Attorney General Kathleen Kane has been going on for the past week or so. What I had thought would have been a fairly mundane case of the technical aspects of what constitutes "leaked" grand jury testimony has actually turned out to be something pretty crazy (although could also be considered fairly typical of a Pennsylvania politician's misconduct.)

BillyPenn.com does a good job of capturing the highlights. You've got "Revenge Text Messages", planted newspaper stories, an unaccounted trip by Kane to Haiti, and an AG deputy possibly committing fraud against a judge.

But the real shocker is Kane's deep trip into political paranoia......

Apparently Kane was concerned that even some of her closest friends — whom she allegedly trusted with SECRET GRAND JURY INFORMATION — were out to get her. Morrow testified that one day in August 2014 after the Daily News story about an investigation in NAACP leader J. Whyatt Mondesire had already dropped, he planned to grab lunch with Kane at the Bellevue in Philadelphia. This was not out of the ordinary.

What was unusual was the pre-lunch treatment. Rather than meeting her at the Bellevue like usual, he was picked up by her driver and taken to a parking garage where the driver confiscated his cellphone and “wanded” him down to be sure he wasn’t wearing a wire. Then, lunch. Kane told him she had become aware a grand jury investigation was launched into who leaked what to the Daily News.

“She apologized to me for the security detail,” Morrow testified, “and said it’s a new office protocol.”

Something similar happened to him in October of that year while he says they were in the process of concocting a lie in order to cover up the alleged leak. He said Kane asked him to meet her in a park in Dunmore, near Scranton, where she was living at the time.

When he got to the park, a driver picked up Morrow, drove him to his house, took his phone, wallet and keys and “wanded” him again for a wire. Then, he drove him back to the park, had him get out of the car and then get into another car that Kane was in so the two of them could have a conversation. Morrow described her as “frantic.”

“She was just like, ‘I need help, I need help, I need someone to help me,’” Morrow testified. “I said ‘I’ll do whatever you need me to do. Tell me what you want me to do.’ There was no answer.”

Kane's attorneys have not put up a defense in the trial, last week announcing that they would not call any witnesses. Closing arguments are to begin today.