Rahm: not whistleblower

Oh well.

Rahm: Whistleblower?

According to Huffington Post's Sam Stein, local news reports out of Chicago are pointing to Rahm Emanuel as the whistleblower who alerted the Feds to the auction Blagojevich was holding for Obama's vacated Senate seat.   If true, I imagine this will be added to Rahmfacts.com.

Blagojevich Arrested

Illinois' governor, Rod Blagojevich, has been arrested on corruption charges.  Apparently, it's connected to filling the Senate seat that President-elect Barack Obama is vacating.  Probably not the kind of story Obama wants to have floating around...

3 year investigation for white-collar crime culminating in arrest, not surrender, is unusual, Jeffrey Toobin points out.  Either the charges are that big, or there's the off-chance that this is a trumped-up, politically motivated investigation.  I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but we've seen it happen before with a state governor.   

The long arm of the tubes, er, law

I wonder if they have internet in federal prison?

Sen. Ted Stevens may soon tell us.  My guess is that he would have to take an actual highway to get there, but once there, he may be able to connect to the omnipotent "series of tubes."

As a friend of mine passed along: this is the first time DC citizens have been able to take part in an election for senator.