The More We Do Each Other, Each Other, Each Other…
Governor Blago appoints Obama AG nominee Eric Holder to investigate corruption. Holder receives $300,000 for his legal services. Corruption probe finds no wrongdoing.
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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.”
Ed Morrissey elaborates:
With all of the attendant publicity, how likely was it that Holder forgot his work with Blagojevich — especially on casino investigations, where one might expect to find a cesspool of corruption?
Not bloody likely. It looks a lot more like Holder wanted to minimize his connections to Blagojevich and hoped people would forget about it.
Could Obama and his apostles have handled this any worse? Hard to see how.
They have taken a situation in which they appear to be blameless—the selling of a Senate seat by a crooked Chicago pol (if that’s not redundant)—and self-inflicted serious, if not yet mortal, wounds, by prevaricating, obfuscating, hedging, twisting, omitting, and stalling. I have no idea what they have to hide, but it had better be worth it.
Martino said,
December 17, 2008 @ 12:13 pm
Hey, in all fairness, if I had a nickel for every time I forgot about a $300,000 paycheck from the state of Illinois, I’d have …..well, a lot of nickels — I think, I can’t be sure.