FROM:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/18/AR2009031803536.html
Via:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2210518/posts
Reid, Durbin Answer Questions About Burris
WashPost ^ | 3-19-09
In an unusual step, the Senate’s top leaders were interviewed yesterday by the chamber’s ethics committee in its ongoing investigation of Sen. Roland W. Burris’s campaign to win appointment to the seat vacated by President Obama.
Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) met with the committee, in separate 30-minute discussions, to recount their interactions with Burris (D) during his effort to be seated after he was appointed by then-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D).
Neither Reid nor Durbin is accused of wrongdoing, but their testimony could prove critical to discerning the motive behind Burris’s alleged misstatements before a state legislative committee in Illinois that conducted the Blagojevich impeachment inquiry.
While Reid declined to comment on the substance of the interview with the ethics committee, Durbin said he also appeared last week before an Illinois prosecutor investigating whether Burris told the truth that he had no contact with Blagojevich or his advisers in relation to political fundraising requests before he was appointed.
Burris has denied any wrongdoing and has resisted all calls for his resignation.
“We now have confirmation that top Obama White House officials are caught up in a federal grand jury investigation,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “It would be helpful if President Obama kept his promises of transparency and finally released all documents related to this scandal.”
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Notice how intensely the lamestreams hone in on this in the WH pressers with the blathering fool, Gibbs................... NOT!
What an abyssmal state of journalism. How do they live with themselves or justify their paychecks?