{"id":823,"date":"2011-06-08T15:43:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T22:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=823"},"modified":"2011-06-08T15:43:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T22:43:57","slug":"blagoland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=823","title":{"rendered":"BLAGOLAND"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rod Blagojevich trial continues to represent very high risk for the Obama administration.\u00a0 The prosecutor has been determined to convict Blagojevich but seems spectacularly uninterested in the other players.\u00a0 One of those players is Rahm Emmanuel.\u00a0 According to the following article, the FBI taped a phone conversation between Rod Blagojevich and Rahm Emmanuel:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/06\/08\/rahm-emanuel-asked-rod-bl_n_872999.html?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-n%7Cdl3%7Csec3_lnk1%7C215458<\/a><\/p>\n

In this particularly tape Rahm Emmanuel apparently asked Blagojevich to appoint someone to replace him in congress when Emmanuel became Obama\u2019s Chief of Staff:<\/p>\n

In the conversation, according to the transcript filed in the motion, Emanuel tells Blagojevich the appointment would give a successor an advantage in winning the seat in an eventual special election and that he wanted someone who didn’t want the job in Congress as a “lifetime commitment.”<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Emanuel tells Blagojevich that Forrest Claypool, then a county official, was interested in the congressional seat for “like one term or two max.” Emanuel recently named Claypool to head the Chicago Transit Authority, which oversees one of largest subway and bus networks in the nation.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Blagojevich tells Emanuel his lawyers say he cannot do that as it would be illegal.\u00a0 Emanuel responded with a creative strategy on how Blagojevich can circumvent the law:<\/p>\n

\u00a0Emanuel responds he knows that to be true and suggests a legal alternative: If Emanuel steps down three weeks before the end of his term, Blagojevich could make an interim appointment of someone who would take the seat up to the election.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“OK? You would appoint somebody to finish those three weeks …,” Emanuel says in the transcript. “It gives him a head start (over other candidates) and a presumption. So I am going to check that legally out, and then we will, uh, and I, this is between you and I …”<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This may not be illegal, but it comes awfully close to influence peddling.\u00a0 When Emmanuel says he will remember this, the implication is that Blagojevich will be rewarded.\u00a0 Being \u201cremembered\u201d by the Chief of Staff to the President of the United States is a big deal.\u00a0 The FBI apparently taped several conversations between Blagojevich and a cast of thousands.\u00a0 Several of those conversation involved people like Rahm Emmanuel.\u00a0 Prior to now, the prosecutor has only released the tapes he wanted to release and redacted them to only point the finger at Blagojevich.\u00a0 I have always felt that this \u201cselective disclosure\u201d was unfair to Blagojevich and was designed to shield others, potentially including Obama, The lid is now officially off that box.\u00a0 This could go in a million different directions.<\/p>\n

It is always dangerous when lies start to unravel.\u00a0 Once the lid comes off, some people are going to be asking some very interesting questions.\u00a0 Up until now, while the suspicions were always there, there was no evidence to consider.\u00a0 That all changed dramatically with the release of this very interesting transcript.<\/p>\n

Blagojevich\u2019s defense has always been that he did nothing different then everyone else with regard to the politics of choosing Obama\u2019s replacement in the Senate.\u00a0 It looks like he\u2019s got a point!\u00a0<\/p>\n

In some ways this is similar to the Anthony Weiner case.\u00a0 He made one mistake and accidentally sent one tweet to the wrong person.\u00a0 That is all it took for his whole sordid history to become public knowledge. \u00a0I suspect there are a lot of people in the Obama administration who are very nervous tonight.<\/p>\n

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