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Published 12/10/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News

Politico - Reporters covering the unfolding Illinois seat-for-sale scandal have spent the past 24 hours in a high-stakes game of Clue, trying to deduce from circumstantial evidence the true names of “Advisor A,” “Senate Candidate 5” and other code-named figures in the criminal complaint against Gov. Rod Blagojevich. (link)

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