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Federal Sources: Fitzgerald Held Off Blagojevich Bust to Protect Obama Election Chances
debbieschlussel.com ^ | December 11, 2008 | Debbie Schlussel

Posted on 12/11/2008 5:02:43 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

Did Obama Fail Ethics Requirements of Illinois Bar?

A federal source of mine with ties to Chicago says that FBI agents had enough to prosecute corrupt, helmet-haired Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich back in June, when he was already engaged in some of the blackmail and extortion alleged by the FBI affidavit and other documents associated with his arrest and prosecution.

The source says that the FBI was suddenly ordered by the U.S. Attorney's Office--and I believe that order came from the top, ie., U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and Justice Department officials in Washington--to hold off on doing anything until after the election, so as not to hurt Obama's White House bid. Here's what my inside source says.

I know for a fact FBI Chicago had enough to indict Blagojevich in June. They were 2 weeks from indictment in June based on cooperation and testimony at the Stu Levine trial. Levine was Tony Rezko's bud, fund raiser for Blago, and our President-Elect.

I wonder what took them so long? My guess is when it started to look like a lock for Obama's nomination by the Dems, someone at the U.S. Attorney's Office put it all on hold, so as not to spoil "The Annointed One's" shot.

(Excerpt) Read more at debbieschlussel.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: blagojevich; chicago; corruptdems; doj; fbi; guesswork; il2008; merryfitzmas; patrickfitzgerald; schlussel
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1 posted on 12/11/2008 5:02:44 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Now, THERE’S a shocker. /sarc


2 posted on 12/11/2008 5:04:09 PM PST by library user
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Not surprised at all.


3 posted on 12/11/2008 5:06:19 PM PST by randomhero97 ("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Let’s just hope it backfires by allowing the sale of the century to develop.


4 posted on 12/11/2008 5:06:22 PM PST by OSHA (framing it as though you've magically neutralized any potential negative eventuality)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So, who will be the first to file a grievance against attorney Barack Obama with the appropriate Illinois authorities? Remember, there’s precedent for something like this. There was that certain Democrat President who lost his law license over lying under oath. ‘Memba him?


5 posted on 12/11/2008 5:06:28 PM PST by library user
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To: Free ThinkerNY
So he held off on arresting him for selling Obama’s seat until after Obama was elected? I must be missing something.
6 posted on 12/11/2008 5:08:10 PM PST by Doe Eyes
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To: library user

The shocker is that Hillary’s renown opposition research team didn’t uncover this.


7 posted on 12/11/2008 5:08:54 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Remember, Nixon was forced to resign because of a cover-up after the fact. He never authorized the Watergate break-in.


8 posted on 12/11/2008 5:09:04 PM PST by NoControllingLegalAuthority ((Barack Obama...stuck on stupid and idle as the world races by him like a bullet train...)
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To: Doe Eyes
So he held off on arresting him for selling Obama’s seat until after Obama was elected? I must be missing something.

No, everyone else is......LOL!

9 posted on 12/11/2008 5:13:16 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (What size shot works best on 4 calling birds?)
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To: Doe Eyes
So he held off on arresting him for selling Obama’s seat until after Obama was elected? I must be missing something.

There was apparently a number of crimes Blag was committing. The attempted selling of Obama's seat was just the latest.

10 posted on 12/11/2008 5:13:48 PM PST by Dianna
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I think I know some attorneys that are going to get fired on Jan 21.


11 posted on 12/11/2008 5:14:13 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Gee...I’m shocked. Funny how Lawrence Tribe indicted Cap Weinberger days before the 1992 election that deliberately aided Clinton.

You can always count on Fitz to aid his Democrat heartthrobs.


12 posted on 12/11/2008 5:15:22 PM PST by Obadiah (NOMR! - Not One More RINO!)
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To: Dianna
The attempted selling of Obama's seat was just the latest.

And its not too hard to imagine the campaign to sell the seat starting in the summer in anticipation of an Obama win.

13 posted on 12/11/2008 5:16:40 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Dianna

You probably have it right. This last bit of corruption simply made it easier to hide the truth of the delay.


14 posted on 12/11/2008 5:17:37 PM PST by Carley (Prayers for Sgt. Eddie Ryan)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I'd just love to see Obama forced from office using the same sword used on Nixon.

(from the Watergate hearings) Senator Howard Baker (R) TN: "What did the President know and when did he know it."

15 posted on 12/11/2008 5:17:51 PM PST by NoControllingLegalAuthority ((Barack Obama...stuck on stupid and idle as the world races by him like a bullet train...)
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To: skeeter
And its not too hard to imagine the campaign to sell the seat starting in the summer in anticipation of an Obama win.

And its not too hard to imagine the Obama campaign was tipped off about the Blago Senate seat auction.

16 posted on 12/11/2008 5:19:03 PM PST by CharacterCounts (1984 was supposed to be a work of fiction, not a how-to manual.)
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To: Doe Eyes
Yes, you are missing all the crimes that came before that one that were sufficient on their own to indict Blago.
17 posted on 12/11/2008 5:21:57 PM PST by DB
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To: Free ThinkerNY; All

I have a dumb question...

If Fitz didn’t want to hurt Obama, why release the tapes of Blago swearing about Obama?
Why wouldn’t he release a damning tape of Blago talking about something else?

A/ Fitz thought the tape of Blago saying Obama wouldn’t play the game would make Obama look innocent?

B/ He wants to hurt, or at least own, Obama?

C/____________________?


18 posted on 12/11/2008 5:23:11 PM PST by fanfan (Update on Constitutional Crisis in Canada.....Click user name)
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority

Ha! The MSM took Nixon out. They will never surrender one of their own. Look at Clinton. There were calls for him to resign. The MSM propped him up over and over again. There is strong evidence that Clinton RAPPED someone. The MSM deliberately let him skate.


19 posted on 12/11/2008 5:23:49 PM PST by Obadiah (NOMR! - Not One More RINO!)
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To: Obadiah

I would have asked Obama if the SS ever told him during his briefing if Blago was going down.


20 posted on 12/11/2008 5:25:16 PM PST by Orange1998
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To: Orange1998

Does anyone wonder if there are tapes of Obama’s team talking/negotiating to/with Fitz. Fitz may retire a very wealthy man.


21 posted on 12/11/2008 5:27:43 PM PST by IM2MAD
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To: Free ThinkerNY

You also have to wonder if Fitz was doing the slow-roll on pressing Rezko on a plea-deal for turning state’s evidence. Imagine what that guy has on various “people/messiahs in high places”.


22 posted on 12/11/2008 5:28:40 PM PST by ReleaseTheHounds ("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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To: Obadiah
Funny how Lawrence Tribe indicted Cap Weinberger days before the 1992 election that deliberately aided Clinton.

Wouldn't it have been easier for Tribe to indict Weinberger if Tribe had ever been a prosecutor?

23 posted on 12/11/2008 5:31:01 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Just because I am an Oogedy-Boogedy kind of guy!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

If we had a free, honest and legitimate media this would have been disclosed prior to the election. Reszko is throughout the Federal Complaint - and Obama had dirtied himself with Reszko so frankly if Obama wasn’t in the middle of the whore house, he was guarding the door, and shagging a few bucks for every john.

What is the harm of a media that is in the tank - you are now looking at it - a hideous surprise, you get a Blago, showing up like a hard lump on the testicles, strong arming a female hospital administrator and cursing like a Gambino captain making his collections. So ugly and so wrong, and so Democratic and so blind, and the citizens of Illinois now know how Kitty Genovese really felt that night.

This should have been exposed years ago by a true media - and would have saved a lot more people. Lies kill.


24 posted on 12/11/2008 5:34:33 PM PST by Titus-Maximus (The shipping industry got out of wind power 150 years ago, any clipper ships delivering goods?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"A federal source of mine with ties to Chicago says..."

So, here we go again.

Maybe the source said it, maybe not...
Damned if I know.

Burned and chastised by the slapdown they received from SCOTUS over the birth certificate imbroglio, the wacky wing of FreeRepublic seizes upon the next available conspiracy theory which they can clutch to their breasts....


He ain't human, I tell ya...
I was here when he came out of the space ship.
I saw him with my own eyes...

The appearance of being totally unhinged doesn't augment anyone's credibility.

25 posted on 12/11/2008 5:34:57 PM PST by billorites
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To: All

I think the period of time when hillary sat down with obama right before she dropped out went like this. She knew she couldn’t take him out and win, even using her dirt on him, so she says to him..I am going to get a choice job for me , and a lot of my friends, or I take you down with me...

I still can’t believe she gave up her shielded job as senator for a tough one like secretary of state.

We all know the clintons goals, they just take some CREATIVE routes to get there sometimes !


26 posted on 12/11/2008 5:38:39 PM PST by uncle fenders
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To: Obadiah
There is strong evidence that Clinton RAPPED someone

No kidding? I knew he played the saxophone atrociously, but not that he rapped as well.

27 posted on 12/11/2008 5:45:30 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC (If my kids make a mistake in the voting booth, I don't want them punished with a community organizer)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I wonder if Bush and his inner circle were unaware of this potential disaster for the Obama campaign? Seems difficult to believe that they had no idea of what was taking place.

While I am at it, I’ve seen little evidence over the last 4 years that Bush had any interest in seeing a Republican win the 2008 election. You know, what bully pulpit? You’d have thought there wasn’t even a Republican Party based on his behavior.


28 posted on 12/11/2008 5:46:58 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Gee, what a surprise.


29 posted on 12/11/2008 5:49:18 PM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: Obadiah
There is strong evidence that Clinton RAPPED someone.

Just so I'm completely clear on this....

Are we saying that he "rapped" someone over the head, as in hitting them?

...Or are we saying he chanted a "song" about b-itches & ho's while scratching vinyl records at someone?

30 posted on 12/11/2008 5:52:16 PM PST by PalmettoMason (Can't we all just get along? At least until I'm finished reloading?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Actually the delay was a fair thing to do. Unfortunately that knife doesn’t cut both ways. Just ask the former or about to be former Senator from Alaska about that policy.


31 posted on 12/11/2008 5:53:57 PM PST by InterceptPoint
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Fitz should have been indicted for not naming Armitage as the leaker in the Plame thingy. He’s a phony bustard.


32 posted on 12/11/2008 5:55:23 PM PST by Pharmboy (BHO: making death and taxes yet MORE certain...)
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To: fanfan

I hope Blago holds out to the bitter end. Let the DRats have a little internal nukular implosion that they so very much deserve. I hope Blago takes down the whole house of cards on his way down. Go out like a fighting Serb Blago...
feces.... meet fan!


33 posted on 12/11/2008 5:57:08 PM PST by tflabo
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To: InterceptPoint

“Actually the delay was a fair thing to do.”

In what way?


34 posted on 12/11/2008 5:57:32 PM PST by John W (Voters were more afraid of losing their money than losing their souls.)
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To: tflabo

He could be silenced before that happens.


35 posted on 12/11/2008 6:05:14 PM PST by fanfan (Update on Constitutional Crisis in Canada.....Click user name)
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To: PalmettoMason

Actually, I believe he had one too many “P”s in that “RAPPED” word. I think he was referring to the crimes committed against Juanita Broaddrick, against that poor girl in Oxford England, and perhaps others.


36 posted on 12/11/2008 6:07:02 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC (If my kids make a mistake in the voting booth, I don't want them punished with a community organizer)
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To: Obadiah

You’re not accusing Clinton of being a rappist are you?


37 posted on 12/11/2008 6:17:20 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs...nothing more than Bald Haired Hippies!)
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority

The good news is that you are not holding your breath.


38 posted on 12/11/2008 6:19:56 PM PST by pilipo
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To: library user

Jr doesn’t have a law license, he gave it up in early 2008 and Michelle gave up hers even earlier. So much for filing charges against an attorney. I’m surprised Debbie didn’t know this before she wrote the article.


39 posted on 12/11/2008 6:21:10 PM PST by Chief Engineer
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To: Free ThinkerNY

bttt


40 posted on 12/11/2008 6:21:54 PM PST by timestax ( CNNLIES)
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To: billorites
Burned and chastised by the slapdown they received from SCOTUS over the birth certificate imbroglio

You've seen the original birth certificate, then?

It was a little before your time here, but this stuff reminds me of the M. Larry Lawrence dustup.

M. Larry Obama. Got a nice ring to it...

41 posted on 12/11/2008 7:29:21 PM PST by an amused spectator (I am Joe, too - I'm talkin' to you, VBM: The Volkischer Beobachter Media)
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

Sorry, everyone knows that around here - just joking around about the “rapper”.


42 posted on 12/11/2008 8:11:32 PM PST by Moonmad27 (Simplify, simplify, simplify. H.D. Thoreau)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Gee, who would have ever thought this? LOL, Fitz is at least as corrupt as the scum he chases. All these turds float in the same toilet. You can only wonder what else Fitz is doing to protect his next boss.


43 posted on 12/11/2008 8:15:14 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: All

BUMP!


44 posted on 12/11/2008 8:27:19 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Soooo, the next best window for Obama was 'now'? I mean they could have waited until the 'forehead 2' had actually named someone for the 'seat' and he had been rewarded/paid. . .paid off. . .whatEVER!

Surely, Obama et al; had wind of this and so were already in 'protection' mode? Nice to see such 'self-servance' working for everyone involved here; 'save Blago' that is. And actually; for all of Blago's idiocy; it could have been worse for him.

Perhaps I misread all this; but Fitzgerald reminds me of the 'adopted son' in the God Father. . .is the Law his loyalty, or 'what/whom'? He apparently wins here, by the timing as well.

45 posted on 12/11/2008 8:42:02 PM PST by cricket (America's Freedom Rings! Thank You ~ U..S.A. Military~/)
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To: skeeter
Am sure they knew; or were close to knowing enough. Emanuel being only one of the common denominators. Am sure they hate; like many 'Washington Dems'; the Chicago Machine and many of it's players; including Obama; and so they give new meaning to NIMBY while they rssist being held hostage.

I don't know; but think there is a 'war going on ' here. . .the kind these Dems love to fight.

46 posted on 12/11/2008 9:00:22 PM PST by cricket (America's Freedom Rings! Thank You ~ U..S.A. Military~/)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Well OF COURSE that is what happened. Protecting Zero rather than protecting the country from a Chicago thug getting into the White House.


47 posted on 12/11/2008 9:17:39 PM PST by TheConservativeParty ("A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not why the ship was built." by The First Gal of AK)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

There is a woman that claims Clinton raped her back when he was Governor.


48 posted on 12/11/2008 9:53:47 PM PST by Hanna548 (s)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Based on the RNC’s behavior over the last four yrs., I’ve often wondered if the Republican Party, It’s a shame testosterone isn’t an over the counter drug—we could send them some.


49 posted on 12/11/2008 11:15:39 PM PST by Free_SJersey (THE GOVERNMENT THAT GOVERNS LEAST, GOVERNS BEST. CONSTITUTION FIRST!)
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To: library user

Illinois no longer has some of the most enlightened people in the country? When did this happen?
Well, you start with some government schools, mix in a whole bunch of liberal leaning teachers and presto, you have the current day Illinois.

I read that both Obama and his wife Michelle let their law licenses lapse in record time after becoming lawyers. From what they could see in Illinois, politics seemed a lot easier for a liar and shady manipulator and more lucrative.


50 posted on 12/12/2008 2:05:24 AM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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