{"id":2708,"date":"2008-12-15T18:17:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T23:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2708"},"modified":"2008-12-16T12:45:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T17:45:22","slug":"good-answer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/15\/good-answer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"good answer!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Obama: Review Finds No ‘Inappropriate’ Contacts With Blagojevich<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n

Update | 5:35 p.m. <\/strong><\/span>President-elect Barack Obama said Monday that an internal review has found his advisers were “not involved in inappropriate discussions” with Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich or his staff, but Mr. Obama has agreed to a request by federal prosecutor’s to withhold the review until next week.<\/p>\n

“There was nothing that my office did that was in any way inappropriate or related to the charges that have been brought,” Mr. Obama told reporters in a late-afternoon news conference in Chicago.<\/p>\n

As Mr. Obama sought to press ahead with his transition to power, announcing new nominations to his Cabinet on energy and environmental positions, a question about replacing Mr. Obama’s Senate seat – the issue at the heart of the Blagojevich case – was raised.<\/p>\n

Mr. Obama asked for patience, saying he was asked by Patrick Fitzgerald<\/u>, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, to hold releasing the internal review. <\/strong><\/font>“Those facts will be forthcoming to all of you in due course,” Mr. Obama said. “We want to make sure we are not interfering with an ongoing and active investigation”…<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I love Barack Obama! He knows just the right things to say…<\/div>\n
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Obama clears himself and staff in Blagojevich case<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n

…"Those facts will be forthcoming to all of you in due course," Obama said at the news conference. "We just want to make sure we’re not interfering with an ongoing and active investigation."<\/p>\n

Fitzgerald released a statement backing up Obama’s account that a delay had been requested.<\/p>\n

"After the president-elect announced an internal transition team investigation, the United States attorney’s office requested a brief delay of the release of a report of that investigation to conduct certain interviews," Fitzgerald said in the statement.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obama: Review Finds No ‘Inappropriate’ Contacts With Blagojevich Update | 5:35 p.m. President-elect Barack Obama said Monday that an internal review has found his advisers were “not involved in inappropriate discussions” with Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich or his staff, but Mr. Obama has agreed to a request by federal prosecutor’s to withhold the review […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}