Blogging Blago: Jesse Jackson Jr. Has Snitched on Blagojevich Before

Looks like JJJ learned his lesson ... turned in Blago ... nothing happened ... figured he had to play ball ... bad timing ... Ouch!

I feel a little sorry for JJJ ... nobody likes a snitch, and he'll have difficulty recovering from the label. I don't see Senator in his future.

call him a snitch or no...ethics are more important...

to knowingly participate and pay the 25 grand would have made him as slimy as Blago and he would have had to live with it on his conscience...some things are not negotiable...

thumbs up JJJ

what goes around comes around...you did the right thing and you will be rewarded for choosing the light even if it does not appear that way today...keep your head up...

sticking to truth is always the right move

Senate report links Bush to detainee homicides; media yawns
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/12/15/rumsfeld/
The executive summary also traces the erosion of detainee treatment standards to a Feb,. 7, 2002, memorandum signed by President George W. Bush stating that the Geneva Convention did not apply to the U.S. war with al Qaeda and that Taliban detainees were not entitled to prisoner of war status or legal protections.

"The president's order closed off application of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, which would have afforded minimum standards for humane treatment," the summary said.

Members of Bush's Cabinet and other senior officials participated in meetings inside the White House in 2002 and 2003 where specific interrogation techniques were discussed, according to the report.




this and Cheney's admission of war crimes on national television should get more attention...the media is selective...the People are easily distracted and the Congress is not tough enough....

i can really only effect one aspect other than advocating on my own...

i committed myself to leading a charge to getting Barack Obama elected...and will make another commitment today...

if the Democrats do not bring the spirit of change along with the rhetoric of change and make the Bush administration pay for war crimes and trashing our Constitution I will personally lead the call to oust them for complicity to the actions of the criminal administration...

it is the only way to recover our reputation and. dignity & standing in the world...if this group can't or won't do it then i will call to all Americans to find a new group and shove a third party in...We the People actually have the power to change the faces in office...let us not forget folks...

i have faith the Democrats will do the right thing... corruption must be stopped and punished...War Crimes stab our Republic in its heart...

water boarding and torture admitted by our vice president (i can't cap it) were once punishable by death in this country...Our nation hung folks for doing it in WW2...

Democrats...don't let this pass!

JJJ is a snitch, wow what a revelation in this time of "rewarding the snitch mentality" in this country. Please, spare me the "doing the right thing approach" if your a snitch you are one of the lowest forms of life known today. JJJ will be of course forgiven simply because he is a Democratic snitch instead of a Republican one.

Not sure I buy Jackson, Jrs. story, because if it had been true then the government would have nailed Blagojevich back then. Anyway, I'm glad to see the government is going after "Blago" now as there appears to be good evidence that he screwed up trying to "sell a senate seat to the highest bidder".

I don't like crooked politicians - no matter what party they belong to!

"Jackson reported the incident in 2006"
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There must have been some self serving reason to wait four years to "Report" it.
Gotta admit, you see so few patriot-stool pidgens these days.

I am from Illinois and this governor did not get any of my votes. There was just something about him I didn't trust. Womans' intuition, I guess. lol
I think that all of the "contenders" for Obamas empty Senate seat are just as guilty and they should be charged, also. I know one of his photographers personally and Blago told him he had to move to Chicago or find another job, because that is where he lived. This particular photographer told him he would look for another job, after he wrote him a check for the rest of his contract, which was triple digits. Needless, to say, Blago was too greedy and didn't want to give up any money, so he still works for him, but not for long! Impeach him already! He is a narcissitic dog!!

Not sure I buy Jackson, Jrs. story, because if it had been true then the government would have nailed Blagojevich back then


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not necessarily, I don't think. It would require something other than he said she said, wire, hidden cameras and so on, and they might still get nothing.

I heard Pat Buchanan put another spin on this.

Essentially if it's certain types of favors, like a contribution to a campaign, he says it goes on all the time and is party business in either party.

It's a slippery slope to turn it into solicitation of a bribe, and according to Pat, he doesn't think the standard has been met on what's been released that he's seen.

He's of the opinion they were rushed because of the possibility of a taint to a senate appointment. Fitzgerald verifies this to some extent.

That's way too inside track for most of us to evauluate accurately because the public looks at 'sin' rather than legality in matters like this.

He's not alone in saying that, so this may take on a different aspect in time. In any case, it's local Illinois politics except for the senate, but that and the hope that this will magically rub off on the president is what's keeping it alive. It annoys me the media toys with people like that, but what else is new.

I want to know if the investigators have any real evidence that the governor tried to sell this seat. I do not buy this bragging on a wire tapped tape as evidence. To me this is a case of a fool wishing and bragging with coworkers. Show me the hard evidence before you send the governor to the death chamber.

Really? Good entertainment? More like who the heck cares. JJJ is a wanna be, and Gov B and the other Obama cronies are well known for corruption, rating this a yawn is too high.

actually it is all high drama in context of the broader picture...this red herring is used to distract form the larger stories (plural) ...

like a made for TV novel...2009 shaping up to be as exciting as 2008...no?