FBI interviews with Barack Obama and two of his senior advisers are exempt from a conservative watchdog group’s request for records relating to imprisoned former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich.
Blagojevich is currently serving 12 to 14 years in a Colorado federal prison for attempting to extort Obama’s former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who later became mayor of Chicago, and trying sell the Senate seat Obama vacated when he won the 2008 presidential election. Judicial Watch has been trying since 2016 to get the “302” forms containing notes from the FBI’s investigative interviews with Obama, Emanuel, and senior adviser Valerie ...
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