An Investigation Timeline
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi081210blagotimeline_wgfx,0,6384937.htmlpage
New RNC ad on Obama and Blago:
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/
2008/12/14/blagogate-rnc-obamas-unanswered-questions/
h/t the real barack obama
h/t kat in your hat
Obama Discussed Senate Vacancy With Indicted Governor
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/6940
Howard W. Dean (Watergate) Advice to oblama
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/12/13/open_letter_to_president-elect/
The Fitzpatrick Complaint
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/10illinois_complaint.pdf
Operation Board Games
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0803/S00452.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00064.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00295.htm
Pringle’s 6 part piece on operation board games:
"Curtain Time For Barack Obama" Part 1-6
http://www.opednews.com/author/author58.html
"EXHAUSTIVE ANALYSIS:
More Questions about Obama and Blagojevich in the Wake of Obama’s Latest Gambit at Transparency"
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/11/exhaustive-analysis-more-questions-about-obama-and-
blagojevich-in-the-wake-of-obamas-latest-gambit-at-transparency/#more-8388
“The twenty-six conversations summarized in the criminal complaint reveal that Blagojevich, Obama and their surrogates were communicating and negotiating through an elaborate network of advisors, friends and allies. Notice how the recorded conversations reveal that new terms and offers were submitted by each party as time passed, and notice how a line of communication was established between Blagojevich, Stern and Jarrett, who is Co-Chair of the Obama Transition Team. Also interesting is how both parties responded to each others’ attempts to parlay their terms through media contacts. Communication occurred, and at one point it was almost direct. Blagojevich, we notice, instructed Stern to discuss the 501(c)(4) option with Jarrett, Co-Chair of the Obama Transition Team who is also Senate Candidate 1. Obama can claim he and his team were not in direct contact with Blagojevich’s office. That is not the problem, however. The problem is that an indirect line of communication was created as a result of their knowledge of Blagojevich’s legal problems.”
h/t kat in your hat
"7 Blago questions for Obama" -Politico
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16465.html
h/t kat in your hat
The SEIU gets dragged into it
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/us/politics/12union.html?hp
Blagojevich Meets with Obama to Address Budget Shortfall
Blagojevich Meets with Obama doc
h/t atypical and Billie Jo
Reported by: WMBD/WYZZ News Staff
Monday, Dec 1, 2008 @07:24am CST
WMBD/WYZZ - SPRINGFIELD — Governor Rod Blagojevich is turning to the president elect for help in a billion dollar budget shortfall. The governor will meet Monday and Tuesday Philadelphia with Barack Obama. Their discussion will focus on Illinois’ $2 billion deficit and how the Land of Lincoln will manage its 2009 fiscal year. In November, Blagojevich announced a plan to manage the state’s deficit. Part of that plan requests more than $1 billion dollars in federal money over the next three years, in addition to short-term borrowing to help pay bills on time. Illinois is currently facing a potential $5 billion backlog of unpaid bills.
http://centralillinoisproud.com/content/fulltext/?cid=34761
Obama caught in lie
http://www.stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/12/10/obama-caught-in-lie-did-he-meet-with-blagojevich/
Chicago-Gate's Tangled Webs Blagojevich's Tangled Web: A Who's Who of Illinois Politics
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/11/blagojevichs-tangled-web/
"…The cast of players in this drama read like a who's-who of Illinois politics and federal crime investigators."
Web of Influence (Good little interactive diagram here)
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/12/09/us/
Webs, and Boneheads, too!
"Boneheaded mistake"
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/
whos-cooperating-in-the-blagojevich-probe/
"…In 2005, Mr. Rezko entered into a real estate deal with Mr. Obama that allowed him to enlarge his yard on Chicago's South Side. Although Mr. Obama has denied that there was anything illegal about the deal, he told The Washington Post it was a "boneheaded mistake" because Mr. Rezko was under federal investigation at the time."
h/t Hillstheone
Press release link for the Gov.’s press release regarding his talk with Obama on Nov. 5 re: his senate seat.
http://www.illinois.gov/PressReleases/ShowPressRelease.cfm?SubjectID=3&RecNum=7260
h/t Hilbuzz
SCREEN CAPTURES and VIDEO DOWNLOADS
"We have seen the MSM respond to the information that Rahm Emanuel was the transition person who was speaking with Governor Blagojevich by suppressing the information and yanking the vids from YouTube. My suggestion to all you folks is to get two programs if you do not already have them.
1. Gadwin Printscreen 4.3 This program will allow you to take screenshots of any page that you are viewing and I suggest you obtain this program for all those newspaper articles and website that will eventually get scrubbed by The One’s transition team.
2. Real Player This program will allow you to download any video that you are viewing to your harddrive. I suggest you do this to every video that negatively reflects on The One and his team. Go NOW and download these programs before you view the video below. You will want to be able to put this video on your harddrive before the powers that be try to shut it down here.
H/T to LOGISTICS MONSTER
