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Now we know why Blago never acted like a governor

Posted by: Tom Kacich

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 10:29 AM

This little Sun-Times story offers great insight into the world of ex-Gov. Blagojevich ...

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blagojevich/1560226,CST-NWS-blago06.article

"Prosecutors have turned over to Rod Blagojevich's lawyers 400 hours of recorded calls and at least 1 million pages of documents they say are evidence in the massive corruption case against the ex-governor.

"And that's just a sliver of it.

"There are an additional 300 boxes of documents Blagojevich's lawyers can go through, another 2 million documents involved in the case and at least another 500 hours of recorded phone calls that were deemed not pertinent, lawyers in the case say. The evidence was so voluminous, it came with a 185-page index."

If you divide the reported 900 hours of audio tapes by the number of days we can assume Blago was being bugged -- Oct. 22 to Dec. 9 -- you get 18.75 hours a day.

That assumes a couple of things: that the bug was shut down on Dec. 9, the day Blago was arrested, and that just one line was bugged. But at least two lines were tapped, maybe more.

These tapes will be the gift that keeps on giving to reporters. Who and what else is on those tapes?