Blago Complaint And The Obama Team

Having read through the charging document twice, there's no evidence whatsoever that anyone associated with the Obama presidential transition did anything improper.  Obama himself is barely mentioned.

However -- the transition will be called to account for all of its members' contacts with Blagojevich, and those Obama advisers who are mentioned by pseudonym -- including Valerie Jarrett -- will face pressure (and the candidate's promise of transparency) to make a public accounting.

Was Blagojevich really trying to shake down the president-elect for something of value in exchange for making his preferred Senate appointment?  He has some serious stones. 

The Obama team did NOT want to play ball. But this isn't one of those Washington scandalette stories that Barack Obama descries; this is a major corruption investigation involving the man who gets to choose his replacement, an investigation that involves -- but, again, does not implicate -- members of his transition team.