Posted on 04/22/2010 4:51:08 PM PDT by LibertyRocks
The judge presiding over former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial called an emergency meeting Thursday evening after information that was intended to remain under seal was released to the public in a defense filing to subpoena President Barack Obama.
Judge James B. Zagel scheduled a 6 p.m. hearing in his chambers to question attorneys about why the redacted information was readable, according to reports.
But Blagojevich's attorneys denied that interpretation. When asked whether the meeting concerned the redacted documents, attorney Sheldon Sorosky responded simply "no."
The defense motion, filed Thursday afternoon, request to call President Obama as a corroborating witness and argued that Obama could verify that Blagojevich didn't try to sell his seat.
The filing contained several paragraphs that had been blacked out electronically. However, the underlying text was easily viewable in the electronic cersion of the document if a reader simply copied-and-pasted the paragraphs into another program.
The failure to properly redact is a relatively common one in government circles.
Actually, Rahm is pretty much a non-issue here - his trial balloon went over with a thud. And the deal between Blago and Barry is just business as usual.
Good to know. I was curious how Rahm’s announcement was received there...
Records and recordings implicating him will never be seen or heard I'll bet.
He looked kind of frightened when Obama was leaning toward him too, as if he was going to get that Mafia ‘kiss of death’, lol.
Fox Cable News has been reporting on it.
Blago, however, had better have his life insurance paid up and said his good byes. And if he gets on the same plane as you, get off!
according to some talking heads....Reagan, Bush and Clinton all gave testimony in trials after being subpoenaed and gave testimony for various things while president. I found that interesting.
This case is “local” for me, as I live on the Iowa side of the Mississippi river. A lot of the Illinois locals are laughing that Bambi and Blago were so stupid as to get caught this time.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!
It’s becoming more clear each day that people who are supposed to be responsible, and have taken an oath of office as required for their position, are commiting bare-faced treason, rather than doing their job.
For that matter, it has been that way in this USA since it was part of old England. That is part of the reason the founding fathers left us a very inefficient form of government. The goal was to make no one branch so powerful it overwhelmed the others.
Unfortunately, we have decayed from a Republic to a Democracy, and are heading for a Tyranny. Such is the life cycle of Republics.
Yeah, Ryan's crotch went ballistic---wanted his then-wife to engage in public sex acts.
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