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Obama: Review shows no inappropriate contact
2 hrs 48 mins ago
CHICAGO �?President-elect Barack Obama said Monday a review by his own lawyer shows he had no direct contact with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich about the appointment of a Senate replacement, and transition aides did nothing inappropriate.
Obama pledged to make the review public, but said he decided to hold off because prosecutors asked for a delay and "I don't want to interfere with an ongoing investigation." U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald released a statement confirming the request.
Controversy has swirled around the president-elect and his incoming White House chief of staff, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, following Blagojevich's arrest last week on charges he schemed to trade Obama's Senate seat for personal gain.
Obama, fielding questions at a news conference, sidestepped when asked whether Emanuel had spoken with aides to the governor about potential Senate appointees.
Emanuel was one of several aides who watched the news conference from the wings.
The president-elect pledged the results of the investigation by his incoming White House counsel, Gregory Craig, would be released "in due course."
He said the probe was complete and thorough, but did not say which of his aides Craig interviewed, whether any of them was under oath at the time, or any other details.
In personally disclosing the results of the investigation he ordered, Obama said, "As I said in a press conference last week, I had no contact with the governor's office and I had no contact with anybody in the governor's office. What I indicated last week was there was nothing that my office did that was in any way inappropriate or related to the charges that have been brought."
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| | | From: DDuct2 | Sent: 12/16/2008 2:05 PM |
As he said before, "He had no contact". Doesn't mean his people didn't. He knows how to use his toilet paper to KHAC. |
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He knows how to use his toilet paper to KHAC. |
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As he said before, "He had no contact". That depends on what the definition of "contact" is. |
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| | | From: Joel | Sent: 12/17/2008 6:08 AM |
Blagojevich's was caught on tape swearing about Obama because he wouldn't offer him anything.Obama was being mr. clean to Blagojevich's sleazy deal making |
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| | | From: DDuct2 | Sent: 12/17/2008 2:05 PM |
How does he know if Obama had no contact with him? |
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Blagojevich is the slimiest of the slime from what we have seen so far. This guy is so slimey he is refusing to resign his governorship. They'll have to impeach him. That's the only way they'll be able to get him out of office, in my view. Go get'im Legislators! |
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Blagojevich's was caught on tape swearing about Obama because he wouldn't offer him anything.Obama was being mr. clean to Blagojevich's sleazy deal making Hmmm......how can that happen when BO has stated that he has had "no contact" with him...? |
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