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.”
What I heard was the Feds moved because of the “outrageous” stuff they were hearing from the wire taps—a “crime spree” that they couldn’t wait to act on. A reporter at the press conference asked how they got the wiretapes on Blago’s phone—did they break into his office to put them in place? Fitz couldn’t comment on that....
You rock! Were we right or what? I would say that our assumptions are correct on the Trib tipping off Obama, but I suspect that it was a bit late for some on the O team and perhaps O himself. We have Axelrod saying one thing now and Obama another. Somebody is lying. Will Obama throw Axelrod under the bus next? Axelrod knows where all the bodies are buried so to speak.