Posted on 12/10/2008 5:05:21 PM PST by lewisglad
On CNN within the last hour, Wolf Biltzer slipped in some interesting and potentially important news about what federal prosecutors might and might not have on Jesse Jackson Jr., who today was all but confirmed by his lawyer to be Senate Candidate 5.
Talking to legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, Blitzer said that according to law enforcement sources, Pat Fitzgerald's office does not have recordings of Jackson himself speaking to Rod Blagojevich as part of the US Attorney's investigation into the governor.
If true, that would be significant, because the indictment filed yesterday against the governor quotes him telling an aide that an "emissary" from Jackson approached the governor and proposed a "pay-to-play" deal in regard to the open US Seante seat that Blagojevich has the power to fill.
If Fitzgerald doesn't have evidence of Jackson himself talking about any such deal, it would appear to lessen the chances that Jackson will be charged.
Of course, there are some caveats here. We've been unable to get more details on Blitzer's report, and haven't seen it corroborated elsewhere.
And even if true, Blitzer's report doesn't exlcude the possibility that Fitzgerald has a recording of an aide to Jackson -- perhaps the "emissary" to whom Blagojevich referred -- talking about the alleged deal.
Dang...........too bad.
Jesse Sr. ~ taking care of Junior. At his age he’ll spend much less time in prison doncha’ know.
It may not matter if the emissary flips states evidence :)
we all knew JJJ wasn’t taped here....but maybe somewhere else.
Exactly!
The leftist media is on full court press to cover the Chosen One’s rear end.
JJ Sr. is mostly likely the one who approached the Gov to appoint JJ Jr. to the senate. Now that would be SWEET!
The media is getting pretty confident with their “declarations of fact”. What makes them even better is that they can do so without any more knowledge of the facts than the rest of us.
Methinks the media is allowing themselves a lot of rope.
It would be funny if JJ Sr. was ‘the emissary’
It’s truly amazing to watch the MSM run interference for Barry O in all of this.
One could imagine if this was a Republican President-Elect. The MSM would be banging away at this night and day and making stuff up about it if they had to.
Toobin is a dork. Seeing how this hit like a bombshell, which no one saw coming, I’d say the seal of secrecy is tight. Don’t believe the speculation!
both Jacksons go down for 20?..... darn close to a wash for the Obama victory
Blag may do some singing but a tape would have been good.
I was noticing that last night. They had CNN on at the gym and I could see the picture but was not listening to the sound (why bother?). The sub-headlines often made exculpatory statements about Obama that CNN could not possibly know to be true.
LOL don’t leave homie without it.
I did not expect that any of the principals would be sticking their necks out, but rather using cut-outs for deniability.... that’s needed for ego reasons as well as legal reasons, so that those who are not selected can talk as though they never were a candidate (”Gov. B and I never even discussed that possibility” etc.).
So the real question is what happens with any intermediaries, are THEY on tape, will they roll over on JJJ if they are facing jail time, etc.
After some 2 years of investigating by Fitz, there should be a lot of names on that list, perhaps Obama
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