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Think Progress: Chicago reporter suggests Rahm Emanuel may have ‘tipped’ off federal investigators about Blagojevich.
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Chicago reporter suggests Rahm Emanuel may have ‘tipped’ off federal investigators about Blagojevich.
Think Progress —
Marcy Wheeler catches local Chicago press reporting that Rahm Emanuel may have tipped off federal investigators that Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) was engaging in corrupt acts. Jack Conaty, a Chicago reporter for the local Fox affiliate, said on-air that Rahm Emanuel might have been responsible for causing federal investigators to act quickly to apprehend Blagojevich this morning:
CONATY: We did receive a tip this morning that perhaps all of this came together so quickly because the Governor may have reached out to Rahm Emanuel, the president-elect’s chief of staff, in attempting to leverage filling the Senate seat. And ...
Blagojevich Arrest: Rahm Emanuel Tip Off? (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
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:
CONATY: We did receive a tip this morning that perhaps all of this came together so quickly because the Governor may have reached out to Rahm Emanuel, the president-elect's chief of staff, in attempting to leverage filling the Senate seat. And it may have been Rahm Emanuel who tipped the scale and made this move as quickly as it did.
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Blagojevich Arrest: Rahm Emanuel Tip Off? (VIDEO)
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
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:
CONATY: We did receive a tip this morning that perhaps all of this came together so quickly because the Governor may have reached out to Rahm Emanuel, the president-elect's chief of staff, in attempting to leverage filling the Senate seat. And it may have been Rahm Emanuel who tipped the scale and made this move as quickly as it did.
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And Rahm Emmanuel hammered the last nail in Blago's political coffin?
culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily —
Oh hell to the nah.
If it is true, then the ballet-dancing troll has started his politically agnostic reign of terror. I guess we're seeing the Democrats' Dick Cheney in the making. Just don't go hunting for quayle with that bitch.
Via Think Progress.
UPDATED: The Blagojevich Saga
The Moderate Voice —
UPDATE #4
The American Prospect’s Adam Serwer helps decode the Senate-seat candidates referenced by numbers only in the criminal complaint against Gov. Blago.
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UPDATE #3
A rumor is afoot that Obama CoS Rahm Emanuel may have helped spark the beginning of the end of Blago:
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