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Blagojevich Judge Calls Emergency Meeting
WMAQ-TV Ch. 5 Chicago (NBC) - "The Ward Room" Blog ^ | April 22, 2010 | Unattributed

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: blagojevich; illinois; obama; rezko
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To: longtermmemmory
"...some reporters figured out that they could use the metadata and remove teh blacked out parts..."

Oh please. It's much simpler than that.

o In Acrobat Reader (or, on a Mac, in Preview), use the text tool to select the text of interest... including the "redacted" sections.

o Copy.

o Paste into MS Word or something. Voila.

Try it yourself on the "redacted" copy of the Obama .pdf at http://bit.ly/bAwmi7. It amazes me that people still get bit by this. Acrobat's "redaction" capability is a joke.
41 posted on 04/22/2010 5:33:55 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast (Obama: running for re-election in '12 or running for Mahdi now? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi])
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To: goat granny
Geeze if being a lawyer or judge means you have to read all that crap, no wonder they are all nuts.

Shakespeare figured that out a long, long time ago...

42 posted on 04/22/2010 5:34:01 PM PDT by glock rocks (Wait, what?)
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To: pissant

Hooo-weee! Rahm’s prolly cursing and throwing his ballet slippers against a wall as we speak!

Don’t forget that this is Chicago politics. There’s nothing like it on the planet. Bodies will soon be washing up again out of the Chicago river. Tony Rezko will no doubt “fall up the stairs” and “unexpectedly” hang himself on the way up.


43 posted on 04/22/2010 5:34:22 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: LibertyRocks

And these jokers want to run the health care system? Lemme outa here!


44 posted on 04/22/2010 5:35:38 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government -- Thomas Paine)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Good point... Although in this case — who ARE the usual suspects? If Obama is no longer in the good graces of the Daley Machine, and if the prosecutor (a Clinton appointee) IS, then the judge may really be between a rock and a hard place... Perhaps he will decide that in order to save himself he implicates the whole LOT of them — Daley AND his machine, Blago, Obama, Emmanuel, Clinton, Pelosi, Reid, etc... A girl can dream right?

It’s really hard to know who is on whose side there in Chicago. Within this entire mess, I’d probably believe the Federal Prosecutor above ALL of them... Even though he was appointed by Clinton!


45 posted on 04/22/2010 5:36:10 PM PDT by LibertyRocks (http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com ~ Anti-Obama Gear: http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: LibertyRocks

“investigation was going to bring them ALL down — Obama, Pelosi, Reid, etc..”

Is this why Democrats are trying to rush laws through congress like there is no tomorrow?


46 posted on 04/22/2010 5:37:16 PM PDT by RatsDawg
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To: Velveeta

Wouldn’t surprise me... There will be blood as you said. This is like an old-school playground fight — for the time being. Really hard to tell who all is going to jump into it and on whose side!


47 posted on 04/22/2010 5:37:18 PM PDT by LibertyRocks (http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com ~ Anti-Obama Gear: http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: LibertyRocks
argued that Obama could verify that Blagojevich didn't try to sell his seat

And how the heck is President Obama supposed to be able to "verify" a negative? Is Blagojevich going to claim that Obama was physically by his side every second between the night the Presidential election results rolled in and the appointment of a Senator to replace Obama? Heck, just what the feds have on tape shows that Blago is a quick and efficient promoter of illegal deals -- he could have made attempts to sell the seat just in the time it would take Obama to run take a leak and run back.

48 posted on 04/22/2010 5:38:15 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Velveeta

I don’t see why this is bad for 0bama.


49 posted on 04/22/2010 5:38:35 PM PDT by Principled (Get the capital back! NRST!)
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To: ecomcon
"The failure to properly redact is a relatively common one in government circles.

Don't worry about your medical records, we know how to keep things private.

Just like they knew how to keep Jack Ryan's divorce records sealed when Obama dropped him out of the race 7 weeks before the Senate election.

50 posted on 04/22/2010 5:38:43 PM PDT by cookcounty ("When they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun," --"Brawls for Radicals" --by Barack Alinsky)
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To: LibertyRocks
This could also be an indication that the Daley Machine is done with Obama.

The Machine was done with Zero the day he couldn't deliver the Olympics for Chicago.

51 posted on 04/22/2010 5:39:25 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: RatsDawg

Could be (never thought about that, but could be!)...

Like I said - all I’m doing is speculating here with a “raised in Cook County” remembrance of all the shenanigans I’ve seen throughout my life, but that would fit... And bringing back up what the PUMAs said in October of ‘08. I don’t think they thought it would take this long to come to fruition though.


52 posted on 04/22/2010 5:39:52 PM PDT by LibertyRocks (http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com ~ Anti-Obama Gear: http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: LibertyRocks

Indeed, I believe President Obama has outgrown any need for the infamous Chicago political machine. They’re nothing but liabilities at this point. It’s a wonder the whole of them haven’t been the victims of mysterious Emanuelcides by now.


53 posted on 04/22/2010 5:40:52 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: taillightchaser

I do too, but it’s all speculation as I said. I could be completely wrong — and have been in the past I readily admit it!


54 posted on 04/22/2010 5:42:03 PM PDT by LibertyRocks (http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com ~ Anti-Obama Gear: http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: LibertyRocks

Well we’re be here, popcorn on the ready.


55 posted on 04/22/2010 5:42:23 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Venturer

I wouldn’t put a bet on that... And I once bet a Trifecta and WON!


56 posted on 04/22/2010 5:43:03 PM PDT by LibertyRocks (http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com ~ Anti-Obama Gear: http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: Principled

This might help to explain:

Blago’s lawyers: Obama lied twice
http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/blagos-lawyers-obama-lied-twice-91850149.html


57 posted on 04/22/2010 5:43:30 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: GovernmentShrinker

I don’t think that’s why they want Obama in the courtroom. Like you said, how could he verify a negative?


58 posted on 04/22/2010 5:44:19 PM PDT by LibertyRocks (http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com ~ Anti-Obama Gear: http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: Velveeta

thanks Velveeta -


59 posted on 04/22/2010 5:45:56 PM PDT by Principled (Get the capital back! NRST!)
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To: LibertyRocks

Go Blago Go!


60 posted on 04/22/2010 5:46:59 PM PDT by Red Steel
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