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Obama Report: Rahm Only Made One Call to Blago
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... ABC News: The team review shows Emanuel made one "pro-forma" courtesy call after he was named chief of staff for Obama.
Most of the discussion concerned Emanuel's Congressional seat with only a "passing reference" to the Senate vacancy. No deal for the seat was discussed. ...
Rahm's contacts
Ben Smith's Blog —
... George Stephanopolous explains why the Obama camp doesn't seem worried about Rahm Emanuel's dealings with the Blagojevich administration: According to the internal report, he only spoke to Blago once, didn't engage in any negotiations to get Jarrett the Senate seat, and was equally interested in the (fascinating, more standard) wheeling and dealing around his House seat: ...
Obama Report: Only One Rahm Emmanuel-Blagojevich Call...
Politics Daily —
Filed under: Scandal, Investigations, Obama Administration... plus four more to the chief of staff. George Stephanopoulos says he has a source:
The sources add that the report will show Emanuel also had four phone calls with Blagojevich Chief of Staff John Harris. During those conversations, the Senate seat was discussed. The pros and cons of various candidates were reviewed, and the sources say that Emanuel repeatedly reminded Harris that Blagojevich should focus on the message the pick would send about the governor and his ...
Emanuel Had One Call with Blagojevich
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
Sources tell George Stephanopoulos that President-elect Obama team's review of contacts with Illinois
Gov. Rod Blagojevich will show that Rahm Emanuel had only one phone
conversation with Blagojevich. ...
"Rahm Report" Out This Week
TalkLeft —
... President Elect Barack Obama's report on his staff's contacts with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich will be release this week. A chiron on Meet the Press read there were 22 contacts between Blagojevich and Rahm Emanuel. George Stephanapoulus says there was one conversation. ...
Obama Report On Blagojevich Contacts: Rahm Exonerated
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... ABC's George Stephanopoulos reported on Sunday that incoming White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel will be exonerated by the Obama team's report on its contacts with Gov. Rod Blagojevich. ...
Obama Report On Blagojevich Contacts: Rahm Exonerated
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... ABC's George Stephanopoulos reported on Sunday that incoming White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel will be exonerated by the Obama team's report on its contacts with Gov. Rod Blagojevich. ...
Exclusive: Obama's Blago Report: Only One Rahm Call to Governor
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... it a little bit frustrating that the report had not yet been released. The sources add that the report will show Emanuel also had four phone calls with Blagojevich Chief of Staff John Harris. During those conversations, the Senate seat was discussed. The pros and cons of various candidates were reviewed, and the sources say that Emanuel repeatedly reminded Harris that Blagojevich should focus on the message the pick would send about the governor and his administration. Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2008/12/exclusive-obama... Last week Michael Sneed ...
Blago-Rahma: Only one call between Blago and Emanuel?
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... George Stephanopolous reports for ABC that Barack Obama’s incoming team will reveal that Rahm Emanuel only had one direct contact with Governor Rod Blagojevich during the latter’s attempts to sell the Senate seat, and that the replacement of Obama barely got mentioned. Earlier, the Chicago Sun-Times’ sources said that the FBI had 21 separate calls from Emanuel on the wiretaps. The numbers will not match up, even comparing apples to apples: Sources tell me that the Obama team’s review of contacts with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich will show that Rahm Emanuel had only one ...
Absolving Emanuel
Political Animal —
... this morning insisting that the scandal "threatens" Rahm Emanuel. The AP doesn't point to any wrongdoing, of course, but it suggests some unknown evidence might, at some point, emerge to make Emanuel look bad. To describe this reporting as baseless speculation is an understatement. The article, however, was published shortly before ABC News' George Stephanopoulos came up with some more concrete reporting, which points in the opposite direction . Sources tell me that the Obama team's review of contacts with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich will show that Rahm Emanuel had only one ...
Sources: Rahmbo Made Only One Call to Hot Rod-- 4 to Top Advisors(?)
Gateway Pundit —
... But, this morning ABC is reporting that Rahm had only one conversation with Illinois Governor Blagojevich: ...
Election Central Sunday Roundup
TPM Election Central —
... George Stephanopoulos reports that an upcoming internal report from the Obama transition team will say that Rahm Emanuel only had one conversation with Rod Blagojevich, a courtesy call after Rahm was named as White House Chief of Staff. The alleged conversation was mostly about Rahm's own House seat, with only a "passing reference" to the Senate seat and with no deals over it being discussed. ...
Obama Blago report to clear Rahm
The Swamp —
... George Stephanopoulos broke some news today when he reported that his former fellow Clinton White House colleague Rahm Emanuel was cleared by an investigation by Greg Craig, the former Clinton White House lawyer, into contacts the Obama transition team had with Gov. Rod Blagojevich's office (so far as we know Blago had no role in the Clinton Administration even though the former president and Blago both have a thing for Elvis, thank you very much.)
As Stephanopoulos reports in his blog (he also said this on "This Week" this morning: ...
Emanuel-Blago Contacts Sound Like A Lot of Nothing
Patterico's Pontifications —
... There are now more details of what Obama plans to reveal regarding Emanuel-Blago contacts. The part conservatives will seize on is this: ...
SUNDAY ROUNDUP
News —
... With President-elect Barack Obama's transition team set to release its report this week on staff contacts with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojecivh (D), bloggers try to sift through conflicting news accounts of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's involvement. The announcement that Vice President-elect Joe Biden will head a task force on working families, meanwhile, is hailed by liberals. A news report from ABC's George Stephanopoulos that, according to sources, Obama's team will reveal that Emanuel had just one conversation with Blagojevich doesn't match up with a Chicago Sun-Times ...
Dear Associated Press
Comments from Left Field —
... PS: George Stephanopolus would like to formally apologize for taking the wind out of your sails today. Not that this latest no-shit-revelation will be enough to stem the speculative bluster emanating from your Washington Bureau. But one can always hope you’ll now start charting a new course. ...
What’s Obama Hiding About Blagojevich?
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
... report and a press conference where Obama answers those questions fully and candidly ought to put the Blagojevich scandal to rest, as far as he is concerned. But as president there will be other scandals (and pseudo-scandals) in his future. He seems much too smart not to learn what this episode’s errors can teach him.
So … Now Rahm has gone from 21 “alleged” conversations with Blago to just one?Interesting …
ABC:
Exclusive: Obama’s Blago Report: Only One Rahm Call to Governor ...
Rahm Is in the Clear, and the Wingnuts Cannot Stand It
Comments from Left Field —
... doesn’t point to any wrongdoing, of course, but it suggests some unknown evidence might, at some point, emerge to make Emanuel look bad. To describe this reporting as baseless speculation is an understatement.
That article looks pretty darned silly sitting directly under (at Memeorandum) the big ABC News story headlined “Exclusive: Obama’s Blago Report: Only One Rahm Call to Governor.”
Here are the first two paragraphs:
Sources tell me that the Obama ...
Blagojevich Review: Rahm Emanuel Clean as a Boiled Whistle
Politics Daily —
... George Stephanopoulos revealed that he has been briefed on Barack Obama's review of staff contacts between the transition office and Rod Blagojevich's, and Rahm Emanuel comes out smelling like a freshly Febreezed rose: ...
Blago/Obama Report: The Waiting Is The Hardest Part
Hotline On Call Part Deux —
... By now, the general consensus is that Pres.-elect Obama's Chief Of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, has been cleared of any wrongdoing after an internal investigation into Obama transition team contact with IL Gov. Rob Blagojevich. The investigation was completed by incoming WH counsel/ex-Clinton lawyer Greg Craig over a week ago and yesterday, ABC's Stephanopoulos (another ex-Clintonite) reported he got an early look at it. Today, the rest of the media is wondering when it ...
The Early Word: Previewing Obama's Blagojevich Report
The Caucus —
... “the transition team’s sometimes awkward handling of the issue has raised anticipation of just what the report might say — and what the fallout might be.” One of the key players on Mr. Obama’s team – the incoming White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, will be cleared of any wrongdoing in the report, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos reported on Sunday . He cited sources who said Mr. Emanuel had only one phone call with Gov. Blagojevich: The contact, described as a “pro-forma” courtesy call, came as Emanuel was named chief of staff for Obama. Most of the discussion ...
alicublog — ... , looking at the sad holidays on the right. Most of it follows up on the latest Blagojevich news, in which conservative hopes for getting a nice Obama scandal out of it appear to be cruelly dashed. Now, for all I know the upcoming ...
Rahm's 21 Conversations That Never Happened
Daily Kos —
... Only one problem: the report was the work of fantasy, fit for a Grisham or Turow novel, but not for the airwaves. As it turns out, Rahm only spoke to Blago once, and it didn't focus on the Senate seat. He spoke to Blago's Chief of Staff four times, and in those conversations did nothing improper. ...
links for 2008-12-23
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
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Obama's Blago Report: Only One Rahm Call to Governor But 4 Calls to John Harris
The sources add that the report will show Emanuel also had four phone ...
George Stephanopoulos’s Buddy Rahm Emanuel in Possible Tax Trouble; Will ABC Viewers Learn What George Knows?
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... I learned on that is that at some point John Harris, the chief of staff, said to- DONALDSON: Yeah, who's resigned now. STEPHANOPOULOS: -who resigned now, said to Emanuel, but if we pick her, all we get back is appreciation, right? COKIE ROBERTS: Right. STEPHANOPOULOS: And Rahm says, right. ROBERTS: So basically... DONALDSON: Rahm is off the hook if that's the case.
Stephanopoulos also posted the news in an “Exclusive” that same morning to his “Bottom Line” blog at ABC News:
Sources tell me that the Obama ...
