Rahm's Hands Are Clean

Is Rahm Emanuel the Obama “advisor” named in the Blagojevich criminal complaint? Nope. So says the AP, which learned from sources that the president-elect's chief of staff is not a target of the investigation into the governor's dirty dealings. Yesterday, when a Chicago Sun-Times reporter ambushed him at a children’s concert, Emanuel refused to address whether he's the advisor in question. “You’re wasting your time,” Emanuel said. “I’m not going to say a word to you. I’m going to do this with my children. Don’t do that. I’m a father. I have two kids. I’m not going to do it.” In the criminal complaint, Blagojevich said on tape that he wanted the advisor to know that he expected a high-level appointment or other reward in exchange for appointing Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s preference, to his Senate seat.