I think that we can speculate that Rahm pulled the trigger on this to shut up a pushy Blago. He was getting too transparent in his pursuit.
Ya’ think Kern tipped of team 0?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-blagojevich-maindec09,0,7734677.story
Fitzgerald thanked the Chicago Tribune, which had been reporting on the investigation, for honoring a rare request about eight weeks ago not to report on certain aspects of the investigation that he said could have been jeopardized.
Tribune Editor Gerould Kern said today that the newspaper delayed publishing some stories at the request of the U.S. attorney’s office during the course of reporting on the accelerating investigation of Blagojevich.
“On occasion, prosecutors asked us to delay publication of stories, asserting that disclosure would jeopardize the criminal investigation,” Kern said. “In isolated instances, we granted the requests, but other requests were refused.”