THE WINGNUTS REALLY WANT ANOTHER WHITEWATER

Hannity has been droning on and on about the Blagojevich scandal and he clearly hopes that it will ensnare Obama. Today, he asserted that Obama was withholding the report of all the contacts he and his team had with Blagojevich because he wanted to try to bury the report. In fact, Patrick Fitzgerald asked him to delay the release.

Obama Says Inquiry Shows Nothing Wrong
By JEFF ZELENY
Published: December 15, 2008
NY Times

WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama said Monday that an internal review had found that his advisers were not involved in any “inappropriate” talks with Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich or his aides over the vacant Senate seat in Illinois, but Mr. Obama agreed to a federal prosecutor’s request to withhold releasing the results of the inquiry until next week.

“I would ask for your patience,” Mr. Obama told reporters at a news conference in Chicago, “because I do not want to interfere with an ongoing investigation.”

Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the United States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, said in a statement on Monday that he had asked Mr. Obama to delay releasing the findings of the transition team’s legal review so investigators could conduct interviews in the corruption case involving Mr. Blagojevich.

Gregory B. Craig, who will be the new White House counsel, shared the contents of the internal review with the United States attorney’s office and hoped to announce the findings publicly in an effort to move beyond the first major distraction of Mr. Obama’s transition to power.