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Gov. Opposes Release of Phone Taps
Produced by Rob Wildeboer on Thursday, January 08, 2009
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Lawyers for Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich are fighting the government's efforts to release recordings of some of the governor's phone conversations.
Earlier this week prosecutors asked a federal judge to let them turn over four conversations FBI investigators recorded on the Governor's home and campaign office phones. That's just a small sampling of the thousands of conversations the government has recorded in its five-year investigation into corruption in the Blagojevich administration.
Prosecutors want to give the tapes to members of an Illinois house committee looking into whether the governor should be impeached. The calls could only add evidence to the case for impeachment so it's not a huge surprise that Blagojevich's attorney's are opposing the move.
Their opposition means that at the very least the release of the tapes will be delayed as Federal Judge James Holderman will likely set up a schedule to hear objections. House Impeachment committee members say they'd like to be listening to the tapes this afternoon but they'll push ahead without them, relying more heavily on the allegations prosecutors made when they arrested Blagojevich.
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