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    Posted: 10 Dec 2008 at 12:37am
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/09/report-illinois-governor-taken-federal-custody/

We need some of this (arrests) over here!

Quote FBI Special Agent-in-Charge in Chicago Robert Grant said he was asked by reporters when he first started the investigation "whether or not Illinois is the most corrupt state in the United States."

"And I didn't answer that question, yes or no, and I can't answer that question today. I don't have 49 other states to compare it with.But I can tell you one thing: If it isn't the most corrupt state in the United States, its certainly one hell of a competitor," he said.

Well said! .

Quote In an earlier statement Fitzgerald said, "Blagojevich put a for sale sign on the naming of a United States senator; involved himself personally in pay-to-play schemes with the urgency of a salesman meeting his annual sales target; and corruptly used his office in an effort to trample editorial voices of criticism."

Scary.

Quote Informed Monday of the wiretap, Blagojevich told reporters that his discussions were "always lawful" and said taping him was akin to Watergate and President Nixon.

Yes - and look what happened to him! GUILTY AS CHARGED (and then pardoned)!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal

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Quote It brought into the open the involvement of Attorney General John N. Mitchell in the dirty tricks, funds and cover-up, as well as key White House advisers, all of whom went to prison for these crimes, for sentences of one to four years. The jail terms had been shortened on the basis of the high level of the convicted, and their cooperation in the hearings.

SHORTENED on the basis of the high level of the convicted??? Should have been LENGTHENED!

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