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Offline bijou

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Holder omitted Blagojevich link from questionnaire
« on: December 17, 2008, 10:15:16 AM »
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Before Eric Holder was President-elect Barack Obama's choice to be attorney general, he was Gov. Blagojevich's pick to sort out a mess involving Illinois' long-dormant casino license.

Blagojevich and Holder appeared together at a March 24, 2004, news conference to announce Holder's role as "special investigator to the Illinois Gaming Board" -- a post that was to pay Holder and his Washington, D.C. law firm up to $300,000.

Holder, however, omitted that event from his 47-page response to a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire made public this week -- an oversight he plans to correct after a Chicago Sun-Times inquiry, Obama's transition team indicated late Tuesday.

"Eric Holder has given hundreds of press interviews," Obama transition spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said in a statement. "He did his best to report them all to the committee, but as he noted in the questionnaire itself, some were undoubtedly missed in the effort to reconstruct a list of them."

Holder signed the questionnaire on Sunday -- five days after Blagojevich's arrest for allegedly putting Obama's U.S. Senate seat up for sale. The Judiciary Committee asked him to provide lists and "copies of transcripts or tape recordings of all speeches or talks delivered by you" and "all interviews you have given to newspapers, magazines or other publications." ...
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blagojevich/1334978,CST-NWS-holder17web.article

I am quite sure the Illinois Gaming Board is a beacon of probity and integrity.  :rotf:



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Re: Holder omitted Blagojevich link from questionnaire
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2008, 11:15:42 AM »
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"Eric Holder has given hundreds of press interviews," Obama transition spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said in a statement. "He did his best to report them all to the committee, but as he noted in the questionnaire itself, some were undoubtedly missed in the effort to reconstruct a list of them."

It's not his admission of the press conference with Blago that is relevant.  It is the tie to Blago to investigate a corrupt part of Illinois' government that matters.  Look over there, there is nothing to here.  God, does Team Obama do anything but obfuscate and mislead?