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...representatives actually talked to an Obama adviser or emissary on the matter. The transition team will also, undoubtedly, try to distance Obama from a man whom he helped elect in 2002 and supported for re-election in 2006, as well as from a brand of corrupt Chicago politics that John McCain tried unsuccessfully to link to him during the presidential campaign...
...point in the complaint, it's not clear whether Blagojevich, his advisers or any other representatives had actually approached the Obama transition team. Over the next two days, however, Blagojevich stepped up his efforts. On Nov. 11, Blagojevich told his chief of staff and fellow defendant in the complaint, John Harris, that he knew Obama wanted someone identified in the complaint only as "Senate Candidate 1" for the Senate seat. But, Blagojevich said, "they're not willing to give me anything except appreciation. F___ them." (See the top 10 unfortunate political one-liners...
Black Friday's long gone, but for Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, everything - including a Senate seat - is still for sale. Or at least it was. Blagojevich, along with chief of staff John Harris, was arrested in Chicago on Dec. 9 on charges that included conspiring to commit wire fraud and soliciting bribes in exchange for the Illinois Senate seat - vacated by President-elect Barack Obama - that Blagojevich was obligated to fill. If convicted, Blagojevich, who turns 52 on Dec. 10, faces up to 30 years in prison. What a birthday...
...involve some overlap in responsibility with the IB. Coordination among India's more than 12 intelligence agencies, and between the intelligence establishment and other security services, has often been poor. "Take the case of the National Technical Research Organization, which was carved out of the R&AW," says Wilson John, senior fellow at the New Delhi-based think tank Observer Research Foundation and author of Karachi: A Terror Capital in the Making. "Despite being sister organizations, they are consumed by rivalries. The result is that they are both doing overlapping technical and human intelligence, but not sitting down together...
...John says there is an absence of a system for "tagging" intelligence inputs in a way that signals their relative seriousness and priority. Following the Mumbai attacks, all security agencies concerned - from the coast guard to the navy to the local police - claimed that the intelligence inputs they had received were not "actionable...