Posted on 12/24/2008 9:41:57 AM PST by Zakeet
The inquiry into whether President-elect Barack Obama's staff had any inappropriate contacts with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was bound to meet its pre-conceived conclusion.
President-Elect Barack Obama's inquiry into "inappropriate contacts" between his staff and Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich over his vacated U.S. Senate seat has the appearance of a closed loop -- the conclusion came before the inquiry.
The conclusion was: there were no inappropriate contacts.
The inquiry found: Imagine, no inappropriate contacts.
The inquiry began on Dec. 11 and ended Dec. 15. That's right, it took all of four days.
The Obama transition staff never explained what "inappropriate contacts" meant until releasing its report Tuesday, despite numerous press questions.
"Inappropriate" in Obama transition-speak can be defined two ways: "unethical" or "discussing an explicit quid pro quo"
When the Obama report says nothing inappropriate occurred, that's what it means.
It's also worth understanding how "lawyered-up" this process was.
Greg Craig, the incoming White House Counsel, conducted his inquiry by taking questions to each transition staff member's lawyer. The lawyers then went to the staff members and collected the answers. The lawyers then gave the answers to Craig.
In some cases -- team Obama won't say how many -- Craig would go back to either the staff member's attorney or the staff member directly for clarification. But it appears Craig's direct questioning of staff was very limited.
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I love how the media treated this as some independant conclusive report. If Bush did this, the media would want to lynch Bush and demanding a full scale investigation. The media treated the Plame scandal as the most serious scandal of the century, when in fact it was nothing. This is a real scandal and all the media can do is look for reasons to dismiss it.
Thanks but the screen shots were of the newspaper articles.
INVESTIGATORS: “We are trying to find out of there was any crimes committed”
Obama: “We’ll ask around and tell you if we find anything”
INVESTIGATORS: “OK”
So this is the kind of change we are primised? It looks like the SOS from Dimocraps to me.
Here is the proof that Obama met with Gov O on Nov. 5, 2008
Look at the screen shots in the posts on the first page of this thread.
While the website they appeared on scrubbed them off we captured them here.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2149224/posts
Here are the correct screenshots. They appear on the first page of the thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2149224/posts
Every corrupt and dishonest pol would like to adopt this “self-exoneration” method.
However, it is only available to Demagogues like the Obamessiah.
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