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To: shhrubbery!

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.


193 posted on 12/17/2008 7:11:21 AM PST by bronxboy
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To: bronxboy
You original statement in #58 -for which I asked for evidence- was this: "Fitzgerald has said repeatedly that no one in the Obama camp is a target."

Nothing you posted in #193 supports your claim.
Neither Fitzgerald nor anyone else, AFAIK (except you), has gone so far as to say "that no one in the Obama camp is a target."

Your AP quote deals only with Emanuel, not everyone "in the Obama camp."
And not surprisingly for the AP, one "source" for their claim (that Emanuel is not a "target") turns out to be (a) anonymous and (b) "close to Emanuel." Wow, that's convincing. /s

The AP's other "source" is also anonymous; the reporter gives us no information whatever about where that "source" got his information.

One more suspicious thing: Note the AP reporter uses the word "subject" instead of "target" in describing what Emanuel supposedly isn't. Interesting choice. Reporter doesn't let us know it that's a quote from his "source," or if he just made that up.

As for your reply re Rove, it's a non-sequitur for you to say "As for Rove,he was not indicted. They were really after Cheney."

My point about Rove was that he, too, was told he was "not a target." Yet clearly that did not mean Rove was either "cleared" or in no legal jeopardy for the almost two years he was under Fitz's scrutiny, before Fitz closed the case.

202 posted on 12/17/2008 9:26:08 AM PST by shhrubbery! (Dear media: Palin is pure as Alaska snow - it's OBAMA who was "NEVER VETTED" !)
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