stoptheaclu.com - 12/12/2008
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Obama's confindence that no one on his team discussed his senate seat with scumbucket Blagojevich may soon be shattered. This Chicago Fox Affiliate has an exclusive that Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s chief of staff, spoke with Governor Rod Blagojevich on “multiple occasions” about the Senate succession ...
hotair.com - 12/12/2008
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The attempt by President-elect Barack Obama to distance
himself from the scandal erupting in Illinois took a...
big hit last night with this exclusive report from Chicago’s Fox affiliate. [...] Read the rest »
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Contact: Emanuel spoke with Blago “on multiple ...
myfoxchicago.com - 12/12/2008
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Contact with Blagojevich?
QandO —
... I said I was tired of the Blagojevich scandal (corrupt governors just aren’t news anymore), this aspect I find fascinating. Obviously, I’m running on assumptions and conjecture here. But they’re at least supported by the report above and the statement in the Fitzgerald charges. Like many of the things Obama has claimed ("That’s not the Rev. Wright I knew"), I find this stretches the bounds of credulity. We’ll see how it plays out. (Via Stop the ACLU)
I'm Not Seeing A Problem For Rahm
Riehl World View —
... . But I can't see anything in it that tells me that Rahm Emanuel has real a problem. There may be some confusion here over "spoke directly," granted. To begin with, this has already been reported. I posted on it, STALU has the video up on YouTube from the 12th via Fox News. So it isn't new news. And Blago or his people could even be lying. ...
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huffingtonpost.com 12/26/2008 — Sources tell me that the Obama team's review of contacts with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich will show that Rahm Emanuel had only one phone conversation with Blagojevich.
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I've been boring you all by repeatedly pointing to this passage in the complaint against Blago :
This affidavit does not include all calls dealing with the corrupt efforts of ROD BLAGOJEVICH, JOHN HARRIS, and others to misuse the power of ROD ...
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swamppolitics.com 12/29/2008 — by James Oliphant
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Rahm Talked with Blagojevich, but About What?
firedoglake.com 12/12/2008 —
President Elect Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel had “multiple conversations” with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich about filling Obama’s vacant Senate seat, Chicago’s Fox affiliate reports, citing an unnamed source. Emmanuel ...
Blagojevich Arrest: Rahm Emanuel Tip Off? (VIDEO)
huffingtonpost.com 12/9/2008 — Republicans are already attempting to tie the arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to President-elect Barack Obama . But local reports suggest that it was Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel who tipped feds off to Blagojevich's corrupt dealings: ...
Rahm Emanuel 'Occasionally' Spoke to Blagojevich
campaignspot.nationalreview.com 12/11/2008 — I'm a smidgen more cautious about this line in the New York Times than Jen Rubin is. But it is intriguing:
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First Read 12/12/2008
At the same press conference where Obama officially named Tom Daschle his choice for head of Health and Human Services, he also gave a firmer response to the Blagojevich news, putting more distance between himself and his home-state ...
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