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Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News: Review shows no contact with Blago
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog: Hugh Hewitt: The President-elect Should Ask USA Fitzgerald To Release Transcripts Of All Taped Conversations Between Blagojevich and Obama Advisors
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog: Hugh Hewitt: The President-elect Should Ask USA Fitzgerald To Release Transcripts Of All Taped Conversations Between Blagojevich and Obama Advisors
Review shows no contact with Blago
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... direction, Gregory Craig, counsel to the Transition, has kept the US Attorney's office informed of this fact-gathering process in order to ensure our full cooperation with the investigation. "In the course of those discussions, the US Attorney's office requested the public release of the Transition review be deferred until the week of December 22, in order not to impede their investigation of the governor. The Transition has agreed to this revised timetable for release." Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16585.html
Hugh Hewitt: The President-elect Should Ask USA Fitzgerald To Release Transcripts Of All Taped Conversations Between Blagojevich and Obama Advisors
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
The statement from the president-elect's office is, well, slippery. It does not detail what contacts occurred between Governor Blagojevich and Obama advisors and staff. Most of us had understood the president-elect to have committed to full disclosure of all the details. The president-elect appears to be hiding the facts about contacts between his staff and advisors and Blagojevich, which leads to the conclusion that there is something to hide here. To end the speculation, the president-elect need only request that the United States Attorney release transcripts of all ...
Hugh Hewitt: The President-elect Should Ask USA Fitzgerald To Release Transcripts Of All Taped Conversations Between Blagojevich and Obama Advisors
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog —
The statement from the president-elect's office is, well, slippery. It does not detail what contacts occurred between Governor Blagojevich and Obama advisors and staff. Most of us had understood the president-elect to have committed to full disclosure of all the details. The president-elect appears to be hiding the facts about contacts between his staff and advisors and Blagojevich, which leads to the conclusion that there is something to hide here. To end the speculation, the president-elect need only request that the United States Attorney release transcripts of all ...
Interpreting the Obama Team's Press Release.
The Volokh Conspiracy —
As he promised, Barack Obama had his staff prepare a report of contacts between his staff and the office of Governor Blagojevich. And it was ready for release in a timely fashion when the U.S. attorney's office asked that the report's release be delayed for a week. Dan Pfeiffer, the Communications Director of Obama transition team released the following statement (via Politico ): "At the direction of the president-elect, a review of Transition staff contacts with Governor Blagojevich and his office has been conducted and completed and is ready for release. That review affirmed ...
Obama Team Clears Itself of ‘Inappropriate Discussions’ with Blago
Pajamas Media —
... his staff had made no deals with the governor: What I want to do is to gather all the facts about any staff contacts that I might — may have — that may have taken place between the transition office and the governor’s office. And we’ll have those in the next few days, and we’ll present them. But what I’m absolutely certain about is that our office had no involvement in any deal-making around my Senate seat. That I’m absolutely certain of. Also yesterday, the Obama transition team released a statement on the promised review of staff contacts with the governor’s office. To ...
12/16: Caroline Ain't So Sweet To The Netroots
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... to throw some of that into the mix." REID: An Ineffective Leader? Several liberal bloggers are harshly criticizing Reid's leadership: OBAMA: The Rightroots Question Fitzgerald Yesterday Obama's transition team said that a review conducted by Obama's lawyer indicated "that the President-elect's staff was not involved in inappropriate discussions" with disgraced IL Gov. Blagojevich. The Obama team said that it's willing to release the review, but that U.S. atty Patrick Fitzgerald has requested that it not do so "until the week of December 22, in order not to impede their ...
12/17: Caroline And The Netroots
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... , U.S. atty Patrick Fitzgerald has requested that Obama's transition team not release its review of the conversations between Obama aides and disgraced IL Gov. Rod Blagojevich "until the week of December 22, in order not to impede their investigation of the governor." ...
