There was something prominently missing from Kathleen Kane’s statement Wednesday in response to criminal charges filed against her a week earlier.

Namely, the facts.

Kane, 49, the first woman and first Democrat elected Pennsylvania attorney general, insisted she’s innocent of accusations that she leaked confidential grand jury information and then lied about it under oath to a subsequent grand jury. She blamed the charges on her political enemies trying to conceal their involvement in a pornographic e-mail chain.

“My defense will not be that I am the victim of some old boys network. It will be that I broke no laws of the commonwealth, period,” Kane declared. Then she proceeded to speak exclusively about the old boys network.

And why not? There’s nothing like the mention of dirty pictures to shift blame on others.

The “porngate” scandal surfaced in late September when Kane revealed that staffers, in her office and other offices in Harrisburg, had exchanged X-rated e-mails on state computers on state time. Several ranking state officials resigned or were fired, most notably state Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery.

Now Kane contends that her effort to expose the scandal prompted the criminal case against her, pushed by those who dread further exposure of their ties to porngate.

“Some involved in this filthy e-mail chain have tried desperately to ensure that these e-mails — and more important, their attachment to it — never see the light of day,” Kane said. “Make no mistake, the stakes for these individuals, whose participation in this e-mail chain have remained concealed behind the cloak of grand jury secrecy, could not be higher.”

That may or may not be true, and either way a porn scandal certainly distracts the public’s attention from other criminal matters.

Here are the more pertinent facts:

n The grand jury investigation of Kane involved two newspaper reports, published March 16 and June 6, 2014, with details from an earlier secret grand jury investigation conducted in 2009. Coupled with the testimony from ranking officials in the Office of Attorney General, the news articles clearly show that confidential information was leaked by Kane, the grand jury concluded.

n The grand jury determined that Kane lied under oath on Nov. 17.

n The grand jury was convened July 29, 2014 — about two months before any disclosure by Kane of a porn e-mail chain.

It’s noteworthy that the investigation against Kane began before any disclosure of the scandal that Kane says was responsible for launching the investigation.

For Kane, that fact won’t go away — and it unravels her defense.