Posted on 12/21/2008 8:51:38 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Obama absolves Emanuel in gov. scandal By: Mike Allen December 21, 2008 11:43 AM EST
President-elect Barack Obama’s aides plan to release a report this week absolving incoming chief of staff Rahm Emanuel of any impropriety in his contacts with the disgraced Illinois governor’s office, Democratic sources tell Politico.
The report is expected Monday or Tuesday. Obama said last week that he was delaying it until this week at the request of federal prosecutors.
The complaint against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose conversations had been secretly taped by federal investigators, tested the smoothly running Obama transition, with some Democrats fretting that the case presents a distraction that could last into the new administration.
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, host of “This Week,” said during the roundtable on his program Sunday that the Obama legal team's review of contacts with Blagojevich found that Emanuel had only one phone conversation with the governor, and it was a “pro forma” conversation.
“I have been briefed on the review that Obama has done,” Stephanopoulos said. “The sources I talked to say that what it will show is there were actually far less contacts than we had heard – that Rahm Emanuel only had one phone call with Governor Blagojevich. It wasn’t even really about the Senate seat.”
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This is wonderful. The fiasco has continued life on so many levels. It might last for years at this rate.
Now there is an unbiased judge and jury, if I ever saw one.
Ok so people are supposed to beleive a report when the prosecutor’s office leked that there are over 20 conversations? How stupid does Obama think American’s are?
Of course he does. He absolves Rahm-bo then he absolves himself and other RATS. And the general public never gets to know the real story because MSM won’t print anything negative on their golden boy because he runs such a “well-organized” campaign.
Did anyone expect an “internal investigation” to do anything other than exonerate? Heh...
He got elected with 52% of the vote - he KNOWS how stupid Americans are.
Huh? He KNOWS how stupid Americans are! How do you think he got where he is?
There you have it, we have Obama’s word. What more do we need?
Ummmmm.....isn’t this up to the courts????? Guess he is going to pardon him before he is even convicted. What a guy.
Beat me by seconds.
I am shocked, shocked that their is gambling in this establishment (as I collect my winnings). /s
At last count there were about 64 million stupid Americans out there.
Good enough for the obamedia. After all their job is to make Obama look good. Imagine if Karl Rove had made those calls.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
How stupid? He is banking on 52% of them being stupid.
Obama is a guy who ran for president utterly unexamined. He has associations that would have torpedoed any other candidate. His past is consciously hidden by him and the MSM
Nothing he has done can be looked at or even verified. Obama is a guy who refuses to show his birth certificate as proof of his eligibility.
Obama has EVERY REASON to believe Americans are Morons who will eat shit.
I thought absolving someone of a crime was a function of the judiciary and not the executive. Silly me.
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