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Rahm Emanuel Used His Gmail Account to Message Administration Officials

November 15, 2011, 12:50PM

John Cook and Ryan Tate | Gawker

Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel used his private Gmail account to communicate with Attorney General Eric Holder during his time in the White House, according to the results of Freedom of Information Act request we filed.

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Topics: Eric Holder, Justice Department, Rahm Emanuel

Chicago

Rahm Emanuel Meets @MayorEmanuel (VIDEO)

Eric Lach | March 3, 2011, 10:15AM

Rahm Emanuel

Chicago mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel met his Twitter impersonator Wednesday and, according to The Chicago Tribune, "the skies didn't open, and no one got sucked into a time vortex." So that's good.

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Topics: Chicago, Rahm Emanuel

ATF

As Deadline On Anti Gun Trafficking Rule Passes, ATF Fights Back In PSA (VIDEO)

Ryan J. Reilly | January 5, 2011, 9:25AM

Today's the day the White House's Office of Management and Budget was supposed to give the ATF the go-ahead to implement a rule requiring gun dealers on the Mexican border to report bulk sales of semiautomatic weapons to the feds, a plan intended to combat the trafficking of such firearms south of the border.

But the Obama administration says it needs more time.

"ATF's information collection request is still under review," an administration official told TPM.

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Topics: ATF, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Gun Control, Gun Rights, Guns, Mexico, Rahm Emanuel

ATF

ATF To Require Dealers To Report Bulk Semiautomatic Rifle Sales

Ryan J. Reilly | December 20, 2010, 12:00PM

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) on Friday requested emergency permission to require that gun dealers report to them bulk sales of the high-powered semiautomatic rifles favored by drug cartels -- all part of the Administration's effort to combat the flow of guns to Mexico.

It is a plan that had languished for months at the Justice Department because of concerns over what the National Rifle Association (NRA) might think. The Washington Post reports now that it was held up by the White House in the spring -- around the same time that President Barack Obama promised Mexican President Felipe Calderon he'd work to prevent gunrunning south of the border.

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Topics: ATF, Barack Obama, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Department of Justice, Gun Control, Gun Rights, Guns, Ken Melson, NRA, Rahm Emanuel, White House

Rod Blagojevich

Blago Trial Update: Rahm's 'B.S.' List Of Potential Senate Appointees

Rachel Slajda | June 25, 2010, 6:14PM

Former IL Gov Rod Blagojevich

The corruption trial against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) has been chugging along, with the highlight this week being testimony from Blago's former chief of staff about Rahm Emanuel and President Obama's Senate seat.

Blagojevich's former COS, John Harris, testified that Emanuel sent him a list of people Obama would find acceptable to replace him in the Senate, according to news accounts from the Chicago Tribune and Sun. Blago reportedly called the list "B.S."

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Topics: Corruption, Democrats, Illinois, Rahm Emanuel, Rod Blagojevich

Rod Blagojevich

Blago Trial Begins (VIDEO)

Justin Elliott | June 3, 2010, 3:03PM

Former IL Gov Rod Blagojevich

Former Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich declared "I feel great" and stopped to kiss the cheek of a supporter bearing a "Rod's not cuckoo. Rod's not guilty." sign as he entered federal court in Chicago today for the first day of his corruption trial.

The Blago charges, regular readers will remember, stem from his alleged attempt to sell an appointment to Barack Obama's Senate seat in 2008, shaking down a children's hospital, and other alleged schemes to profit from his office. He has pleaded not guilty to 24 counts of bribery, wire fraud, racketeering, and attempted extortion.

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Topics: Barack Obama, Illinois, Pat Fitzgerald, Rahm Emanuel, Rod Blagojevich, Valerie Jarrett

Media

White House Press Corps Badgers Gibbs On Torture Stance

Zachary Roth | April 21, 2009, 4:45PM

The White House press corps gave Robert Gibbs a hard time today about President Obama's comments this morning that left the door open to prosecutions of Bush officials for torture.

It's true that the president's comments go further than anything he'd said before, and could suggest that the White House is tacking this way and that on a crucial subject. That impression is strengthened by the fact that the White House has now had to walk back Rahm Emanuel's comments from Sunday that the Bushies wouldn't be prosecuted.

Late Update: Looks like The Huffington Post's Sam Stein had the same response to the briefing that we did.

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Topics: Barack Obama, George Bush, Media, Rahm Emanuel, Robert Gibbs, Torture

Torture

White House: Rahm Didn't Mean What He Said On Not Prosecuting Bushies For Torture

Zachary Roth | April 21, 2009, 10:06AM

On Sunday, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel went on ABC's This Week With George Stephanopoulos and clearly declared that the Obama administration would not prosecute the Bushies who "devised" torture policies.

That seemed to go further than anything the administration had said before. So yesterday we called the White House to get a more formal statement on the issue. And when we didn't hear back, we got to wondering: had Rahm been freelancing, and gotten out ahead of White House policy?

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Topics: Barack Obama, George Bush, Rahm Emanuel, Torture

Barack Obama

Report: Rahm And Blago Talked About Senate Seat

Zachary Roth | December 12, 2008, 12:03PM

Did Rahm Emanuel speak to Rod Blagojevich about the governor's plans to fill the Senate seat left open by Barack Obama?

That's what a Fox affiliate in Chicago has reported, based on "a source familiar with the investigation" into the Illinois governor.

Fox Chicago News reports that Emanuel, the Chicago congressman who was appointed shortly after the election to be Obama's White House chief of staff, had "multiple conversations" about the issue with the governor himself and with Blagojevich's chief of staff, John Harris -- who this week was charged along with his boss.

The source said it was likely that these conversations were recorded, since they took place after the federal wiretaps had begun.

Of course, it would not be surprising if Emanuel had spoken to the governor about options to fill the seat. Fox Chicago said that the source didn't say whether those conversations involved any quid pro quo or dealmaking.

Obama yesterday pledged to canvass his staff about conversations with Blagojevich's office over the seat, and disclose what he finds out soon. Obama said that none of his staff had discussed any kind of deal for the seat.