(Melchizedek Communique, MC011409) Wayne Madsen, via a repost at Tom Heneghan's web site, adds some clues to the puzzling, sudden, mass frenzy which erupted against Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on Dec. 9, 2008.

On the surface, the news is painted as if heroic Eliot Ness (Patrick Fitzgerald) goes after arch-villain Al Capone (Rod Blagojevich). But are Illinoisans such simpletons not to suspect more is going on here than Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd?

Several governors have run into trouble lately: New York's Eliot Spitzer; Illinois' Rod Blagojevich; and lately New Mexico's Bill Richardson. By coincidence or otherwise, all three are Democrats.

Madsen also ties in former Democratic Alabama Governor Don Siegelman to the "coincidental" mix.

Patrick Fitzgerald, U..S. Attorney for northern Illinois, is already credited with bringing down Conrad Black, CEO of Hollinger International and owner of the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper. What does Conrad Black say about Patrick Fitzgerald? Fitzgerald, according to Conrad Black, is "experienced at bulldozing juries, after dismembering his victims in the media first, and then throwing enough spaghetti at the wall in his scores of charges to bury the defense and muddle the unsolomonic jurors." [1]

The other dominant newspaper in Illinois, besides the Sun-Times, is the Chicago Tribune. On or about Nov. 5, 2008, a hot news story landed right in the lap of the esteemed Chicago Tribune newspaper. Reportedly overheard on "The Blago Tapes" is the name Nils Larsen, "finance whiz" for the Tribune. Larsen was allegedly asked to get some Tribune editorial writers fired. So what did the Chicago Tribune do with this hot news item dropped right into their hands like manna from Heaven? Answer: The Chicago Tribune newspaper did not report it!

A month after a hot story came knocking at the Chicago Tribune newspaper and was refused entrance, Patrick Fitzgerald dramatically released transcripts of "The Blago Tapes" ("dismembering his victim in the media first"). Only then, buried on page 20, did the Chicago Tribune reluctantly admit what was by then public knowledge. [2]

So what is really going on, besides the Tom & Jerry cartoon show? Madsen says an illegal National Security Administration (NSA) eavesdropping program, "Stellar Wind", is involved. Stellar Wind intercepts are "being used for blatant political purposes." [3]

Reportedly, White House Chief of Staff designee Rahm Emanuel "was involved in negotiations with Blagojevich to have named as Obama's Senate replacement someone who would serve as a placeholder so Emanuel could run for the Senate seat in 2010." [3] A placeholder? Like Roland Burris maybe??

This is not meant against Roland Burris, who seems to be a fine man. But does soon-Senator Burris realize the extent of the skullduggery going on?

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[1] "Lord Black from prison: Angry and verbose. (And not guilty.)", by Rex W. Huppke. Chicago Tribune, Jan. 12, 2009
[2] "Tribune finance whiz questioned by FBI", by Todd Lighty and Robert Becker. Chicago Tribune, Dec. 12, 2008, p. 20
[3] "The Fitzgerald-Chertoff game to destabilize American politics on behalf of neocon cause", by Wayne Madsen. Jan. 5, 2009