Fitzgerald Confirms Delay Of Obama Team Blagojevich Report

Chicago Tribune:

President-elect Barack Obama said Monday that his transition office was delaying release of a report on contacts with the Blagojevich administration until next week because the U.S. attorney's office in Illinois asked for more time to conduct interviews about the controversial Senate vacancy.

At a news conference, Obama did not respond directly to a question about a Tribune report linking his chief of staff designee, Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Chicago, to discussions over the Senate pick with a top Blagojevich aide. Emanuel, on the sidelines for this conference, declined to answer questions.

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Comments

[FACINGREALIT]

I wonder why Fitzgerald did not ask JJJ to withhold his media blitz since he has been mentioned as 'allegedly' working with Feds on corruption - seems a little a$$ backwards to me - since he (not Obama or his team) was supposed to be an 'informant.'

There is a lot more to this story than has been reported or meets the eye. I still have trouble believing JJJ is not going to be found complicit (to some degree) in the Blago debacle. I pray he is not involved in this but his media blitz to clear his name doesn't pass the smell test if he was working with Feds nor if he is innocent. Seems Fitz / Feds would be stepping up to help clear him. Fitz mentioned day one that Obama was NOT involved in pay to play - but failed to mention JJJ as being innocent as well. UMMMMM

[hortonhearsawho2]

If we print photos of the Big O flying will they relent...

[locita]

Like I said - This dude is a Cool Kat! He's making the MSM pant like the dogs they are! Let's throw some 10 size shoes at them - now that would be new!


Love the Coolest Dude - God Bless America!!!!!

[eden4barack08]

AAAAAAMEN!!!

[hortonhearsawho2]

BCool.

[Dustee]

This whole campaign of PE Obama has been filled with mainstream media and rethugs trying to prove or find a way to show Obama is hiding something of his scary past. He just can't be what he appears to be, legitimate, can he?

Once again, PE Obama will make them *ALL* look like the fools that they are. Playing the same old tired games with the American people.

[Petey131]

Psssst Republicans and MSM the USA is falling apart!

[lovable]

I BLAME THIS ON OBAMA suragates. they need to get on these chat shows and defend obama. tell the press , mention names of the iresponsibility of these certain people like politico and andrea mitchell who create this drama when there is non there .
this type of reporting will continue until someone goes on these shows and stops it.

[hotstuff]

They can ask legidimate questions, and than when told the law says he can't talk yet----they need to shut up or Be sued for being irresponsibie, harming lives and careers of others!

[eden4barack08]

That would be akin to blaming the victim, it's plain wrong.
It's the media that needs to get their act together and start using their heads (if there's anything there), to REPORT the news, instead of creating it. And when they don't have anything to report, then they should move their but.ts and investigate, or else believe what they're told by the interested parties, as opposed to filling their hours with nonsense innuendos. The responsibility is theirs, and nobody else's!

[ckfan]

If only the press had been this persistent in their coverage of Bush's decision to start a war in Iraq. And now, Cheney has admitted that it didn't matter whether there were WMD because Bush / Cheney would have declared war anyway. Chris Matthews is the only person covering this story and he's not a journalist by definition. Where's Morning Joe's outrage over this. Why isn't the press covering this?

The media in our country are pathetic.

[barackobama4prez]

it ticks me off that now, all of a sudden, after nearly 8 years of apathy, they now want to demand total transparency from my prez. they tore a hole in prez. clinton, gave bush a pass, and now want to tear obama a new one. aint that a bytch!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[vjoseph]

Glenn Greenwald deconstructs that issue very well in his book about Rethugs

[mozeovr]

Good grief. When did the press ever press the present administration on any issue, including invading a country on a lie, in fact many lies, creating a nightmare of monstrous proportions, causing the death of thousands, as well as revising the Constitution with signing statements, and on and on......

My guess is that the press will continue to give Obama grief on every single issue, no matter how minor, for the entire time he's in office, unlike the pussyfooting, hands-off, free pass they've given this truly, hugely criminal administration. It is truly astounding.

[harriscrl3]

Obama was telling the truth? I am SHOCKED SHOCKED I tell ya. It was SO OBVIOUS he was lying he wanted to delay the story for a week so that it can FESTER and the reporters and Press can continue to speculate. Notice when it was schedule to be release right before Christmas talk about your proverbial Friday dump story. It was so obvious he was LYING and now to learn he was telling the truth that can't possibly be. He must have paid off Patrick to say it. But alas Andrea Mitchell and company can continue to imagine the conclusion to their weekly Soap Opera. I'm sure thats where their fecund minds will go next

Carol