The complaint--the complaint lays out, in there in fact, when there were layoffs, there were conversations to find out whether the editor who should of--they thought should be fired, and he wasn’t. And the governor was asking whether there would be more layoffs. So we have a governor in this modern times, the only one who’s looking for more layoffs. You take that, what’s going on and add it to the fact that we have a Senate seat that seemed to be, as recently as days ago, auctioned off to, you know, to the highest bidder for campaign contributions.”
In further comments at the press conference, FBI agent Robert Grant took pains to assure the public that the Blagojevich children were being considered. Apparently not realizing that they could have waited to arrest the governor after his children were at school, or arrested the governor at his office, Grant said that he phoned the governor, “advising him that . . . there were two FBI agents outside his door; asked him to open the door so we could do this as quietly . . . without waking the children”:
“QUESTION: Could Mr. Grant describe the arrest?
There were no cameras there, no witnesses apparently. Can you explain how it happened?
MR. GRANT: It occurred about six o’clock in the morning, and it was a phone call from me to the governor, advising him that we had a warrant for his arrest, that there were two FBI agents outside his door; asked him to open the door so we could do this as quietly, without the media finding out about it, without waking the children.
He was very cooperative, and that’s it.”
Apparently these clean-language types in the feds’ office also overlooked the alternative of just calling Blagojevich and telling him to show up at the courthouse:
“QUESTION: Was he handcuffed?
MR. GRANT: Yes, which is normal, standard practice for us.
QUESTION: What did he say on the phone?
MR. GRANT: First question?
QUESTION: What did he say to you?
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