NORRISTOWN — Attorney General Kathleen Kane confirmed Monday she was testifying before a grand jury investigating whether her office violated grand jury secrecy requirements.

Portraying herself as a victim, Kane suggested she was being targeted because of her effort to end abuses of the criminal justice system, but she did not specify by whom.

“If this can be done to me as attorney general ... I am sickened to think what can be done and may be done to regular, good people who don’t have the resources that I have to challenge it,” Kane, accompanied by two outside lawyers, said in a statement she read before entering her eastern regional office to testify.

In her statement, Kane recounted her office’s recent release of e-mails containing pornographic or explicit images, videos and jokes that had been discovered on state computers after being circulated by employees of the office in recent years. Some people involved in circulating the e-mails have resigned their government jobs.

She did not explain the link between the pornographic e-mail case and the grand jury investigation. “You can’t explain the connection between ... the e-mails and this grand jury because there’s an order that (says) we’re not allowed to explain the connection,” said one of her attorneys, Lanny Davis, who was special White House counsel to former President William Clinton.

Kane said court orders going back to March prevented her from discussing the nature of her testimony at the grand jury, being overseen by a special prosecutor whose appointment was authorized by the chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

“The Office of Attorney General has cooperated from the beginning of this process and I will do the same,” she said. “I will tell the special prosecutor the truth and the facts surrounding the disclosure of information to the public that was done in a way that did not violate statutory or case law regarding grand jury secrecy.