Blago to Judge: Feds Wiretaps Aren't Reliable

By Chuck Sudo in News on Feb 22, 2011 7:03PM

Stripped of high-priced attorneys who can fill a courtroom with enough hot air to lift a blimp reasonable doubt, the strategy for Rod Blagojevich's retrial seems to be "throw it against the wall and see if it sticks." Blagojevich's attorneys filed their third pre-trial motion in as many weeks yesterday, asking Judge James Zagel to toss the hundreds of wiretaps made of Governor Sound Bite's phone conversations prior to his Dec. 2009 arrest on the grounds that the recordings contain gaps that are unreliable because context is needed to understand the basis of the recorded conversations. Unbelievable.

This latest motion was filed one week after another motion was filed asking that hundreds of hours of recordings be played to show Blago was trying to seat state Attorney General Lisa Madigan into President Obama's former Senate seat on the up-and-up, and two weeks after a motion was filed asking that a missing recording between Balgojevich and Rahm Emanuel be admitted into evidence to show that Emanuel was willing to broker a deal to seat Madigan in the Senate.

What is Blagojevich paying this legal team in? Pistachios?