Washington Wire - WSJ.com : Blagojevich’s Big Conference Call and Valerie Jarrett’s Clean Break

According to the FBI, there were “various Washington, D.C., based advisers” on the call with Mr. Blagojevich & Co., although the Washington callers are not named. The FBI also said participants popped on and off the line throughout the conversation.

During the call, Mr. Blagojevich and those closest to him allegedly detailed virtually every one of their ideas for turning Mr. Obama’s open Senate seat into something valuable. Specifically, the governor asked “what he can get from the President-elect for the Senate seat,” the FBI alleged, adding later that callers talked about how to “monetize” Mr. Blagojevich’s connections.

Mr. Blagojevich also bemoaned what he called his financial struggles, although his post reportedly pays about $177,000 per year. “The immediate challenge,” the governor allegedly said, “[is] how do we take some of the financial pressure off of our family.”

Callers discussed the possibility of ambassadorships, which are made by the president. They talked about an appointment for Mr. Blagojevich as head of the Department of Health and Human Services, also made by the president. They explored the idea of getting Mr. Obama to use his clout to put the governor’s wife on corporate boards. And they discussed a deal involving the Service Employee International Union, which would be asked to install Mr. Blagojevich over one of its top political groups in exchange for the union getting to tell Mr. Obama that it was delivering the open U.S. Senate seat to his favorite candidate.

I want to know who these people were! They are just as guilty as Blago, unless they immediately turned him in for his corrupt and criminal proposals.

I think it is quite obvious that some of them were on Obama’s official team. Why else would Blagojevich be talking to them? You don’t make an offer to Obama by posting it on an web site, you make it directly to people who can act on it.

There is a coverup going on here, and it is being waged by the Obamamedia to cover up the man they did everything they could to help elect. They aren’t about to see their choice tarnished, especially by evidence of his own team’s corruption.

President Bush, appoint a special counsel now to investigate this entire affair!

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