Could you (or anybody) please provide links to quotes where Fitzgerald says "repeatedly that no one in the Obama camp is a target" ?
I keep hearing Dem shills like Alan Colmes saying that. Often the shills go even further and claim that Fitzgerald has "completely cleared Obama and his staff."
But afaik, Fitzgerald has done no such thing. The only mention Fitzgerald has made of Obama in this matter is
(1) there are no allegations against Obama in this complaint, and
(2) that beyond that, he, Fitzgerald, would have no comment "at this time."
Also, remember that Karl Rove was told repeatedly that he was "not a target" in Fitz's Plame investigation. Yet Rove sat in the prosecutorial hot seat for, what, almost two years? And we were led to believe that not-a-target Rove got off by the skin of his teeth.
This is from Drudge...Blago is on tape calling Obama an MF because he won’t play ball, and you have this. This is not a good issue for GOP. As for Rove,he was not indicted. They were really after Cheney. Thankfully, fitz failed!
WASHINGTON (AP) - People who have been briefed on the Illinois governor corruption investigation say Barack Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is not a target of the probe. Emanuel, a Chicago congressman who would have been a likely contact between the Obama transition office and Gov. Rod Blagojevich, has been a focus of media attention since Obama said Thursday he has asked for an internal review of contacts between his staff and Blagojevich.
Emanuel has been refusing to answer questions about whether he’s the “president-elect adviser” referred to in the criminal complaint that accuses Blagojevich of putting Obama’s Senate seat up for sale. The complaint does not say that Blagojevich ever spoke to the unidentified Obama adviser about the Senate seat.
The two people who said Emanuel is not a target of the probe spoke on a condition of anonymity because the investigation is still under way. One is a person close to Emanuel, who said he has been told by investigators that he’s not a subject of their investigation.