The Team Obama self-audit is complete and — surprise surprise! — it has been determined that no one did anything wrong!
Hope, change, transparency – get thee under the bus.
Isn’t it handy that President-elect Obama has so many impartial observers on his very own staff from which to choose a lead investigator? He asked his choice for White House Counsel, Greg Craig, to conduct the inquiry for Team O. Craig, of course, has no personal interest in the outcome of this investigation.
His findings:
No one in the Obama circle, uh, was aware of what was going on in the Governor’s office or in the Governor’s mind until such time as he was arrested.
…We are satisfied there was nothing inappropriate that took place here, either in terms of conversations or communications with contacts between transition officials and the Governor’s office.
Shocker.
Craig revealed his findings into a memo to Obama. The memo was dated Tuesday, but a transition official said an initial copy was given to Obama on Dec. 15. On that day, Obama announced that the report was ready but that he was withholding it from public release for a week at the request of the U.S. attorneys still conducting their investigation.
In the meantime, the transition official said, Emanuel was interviewed by federal officials who replayed a wiretapped conversation for him. He then was able to give Craig more details about what he said, and those details were included in the final report, the transition official said. Transition officials discussed the final version with Obama on Monday as he vacationed in Hawaii.
Does anyone else find it strange that in the eight days between the delivery of the findings to President-elect Obama, Rahm Emanuel had a chance to hear the evidence that the Feds have against him and give Craig more information, which was then added to the “final” report? What did Rahm leave out of the first memo, I wonder. How much did hearing the wiretap evidence help Emanuel and Team Obama as they worked to put the best spin on this debacle. It certainly couldn’t have hurt them to have advance knowledge of the extent of the trouble Emanuel was in.
PDF of the report here via Allahpundit.
Michelle sees ties to Tony Rezko.
Ed Morrissey has a list of other pertinent questions brought up by the report.
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1 Comment
December 24, 2008 at 12:30 am
let’s all move on, shall we? nothing to see here. In the year of Madoff, Billion dollar bailouts (with no accountability) we are wasting valuable ink on whether, maybe there was possibly somebody who may have talked to a corrupt governor from the president-elect’s office?
Conservatives need to refocus and find better themes than the usual. That should be the strategy not this nonsensical guilt by association BS.
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