Someone, please tell me where the truth lies....
But, did the prosecutors do themselves (deliberately, because they were getting too close and Fitz wanted to “protect” his contacts in the new administration), or did the press (the Tribune) do it to protect the Obama (and its contacts in the new administration?
In the Bible.
Isn’t Sam Zell,owner of the Tribune Co., a big time Democrat donor?
Somehow I don’t think the truth lies anywhere close to the State of Illinois.
Blago was trying to sell the seat. The Tribune knew about it. It blabbed and threatened to publish the story in a political move, it forced the prosecutor’s hand before he had the full case established. Typical Chicago machine thuggery politics. With any luck this will be the last straw to bring down the Tribune. Crime and corruption doesn’t pay, even in Chicago.
Guen, we won’t know the truth for a while.
What we do know is Chicago is a corrupt cesspool, and has been for at least 80 years.
No one swims in that swamp and does not have a stench, including Hussein.
The Trib pulled the trigger early. The last reason is that they had a journalistic responsibility to report the investigation.
They wanted to protect someone. When the investigation was getting too close to someone they cherish, and in Chicago, they have ways of finding out everything, including special investigations,they acted to protect them.
Even Fitz I don’t trust here, after his pursuit of Libby when he knew for years Armitage was the leaker in the Plame case. He has his own reasons for what he did in trusting the Trib.
What is clear is that someone wants Rod B. gone, the sooner the better. And Rod may have some tricks up sleeve to make that as difficult as possible.
In Chicago, things are never what they appear to be. The truth almost never bubbles to the surface through the layers of corruption and deceit.
But what we know now is probably not even a fraction of the real story. Stay tuned.