Posted on 08/17/2010 7:07:54 PM PDT by markomalley
Federal prosecutors' decision to "protect" Obama administration officials by not calling them to testify against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is "absolutely" responsible for the prosecution's stunning failure to get convictions on 23 of 24 counts, a Fox News legal analyst who closely followed the trial tells Newsmax.
Not obtaining a guilty verdict on any of the primary counts leveled against Blagojevich was viewed as a serious setback for prosecutors, especially given the federal conviction rate of over 95 percent.
"They should be so embarrassed," Fox news legal commentator Tamara Holder, a Chicago-area attorney, tells Newsmax.
Holder blamed the outcome on the lack of compelling testimony.
"I think that this is a very interesting issue, because I think that [White House Chief of Staff Rahm] Emanuel was not called [to testify], Axelrod, whomever else, Obama himself, in an effort to protect the administration," Holder says. "You know once you open the door and you put these guys on the stand, well, the cat's out of the bag and you open them to cross-examination and whatnot."
Holder characterized the verdict as "a great victory for the defense, because [U.S. Attorney] Patrick Fitzgerald promised us that Lincoln would be rolling over in his grave."
Holder adds: "He promised us that he stopped Gov. Blagojevich from his crime spree dead in his tracks, and today's decision was proof that that was a lie. The lie today was Fitzgerald lying to us, not Gov. Blagojevich lying to the FBI."
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Release ALL of the audio tapes to the public, Fitzgerald!
Time for a new prosecutor, new judge, and new venue.
So much for Fitzmas Redux...
Time for our boy Patrick to retire to a quiet practice defending drunks and domestic abuse cases...
Amazing.
The fix was in.
Or maybe it got them the conviction. After all, calling members of the administration could have convinced the jurors that it was members of the administration and of the Congress who were OFFERING bribes that Blago did not take.
Putz Fitzmiss, the gutless clown.
Oh, not THAT H0lder quoted. I thought it was satire.
The list, ping
This is going to sound stupid because I haven’t been following this trial too closely only because I knew the guy would skate, and the evil rats would protect THE JOKER at all cost..but my question is....How does this benefits our side if any?
He is just a political hack who should be fired, and possibly prosecuted for malfeasance in office. JMHO
Chicago corruption. Did anyone really believe there would be a conviction with the administration linked to so many aspects of this case?
Or the jury was bought and paid for. Maybe both.
The leak was intended to derail the case before it could harm the administration.
I have no problem at all accepting this view of how the case was exposed at a time that would seriously weaken it.
I think it might have been idiots in the jury box...
Didn’t Obama meet with Fitz just a few weeks ago ?
I wonder what they discussed . . .
For one thing Blago is no longer our governor here in Illinois. But all the other crooks are still running around.
Good Grief, the whole charade from the get go was about protecting Obama. And it worked just fine.
are those Holder quotes real? Holy moly.
oops. wrong Holder. It was the commentators on tv, not Eric.
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