Stephen Dinan,Washington Times
Obama and Blagojevich in Better Times
President-elect Barack Obama said Monday that his transition team has completed its review of contacts with Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich and has found itself blameless,but won’t release the findings until next week.
Mr. Obama,at a Chicago press conference,said the U.S. attorney asked the transition team to wait to release its report so as not to threaten the case against Mr. Blagojevich,who was arrested on charges of trying to sell the Senate seat Mr. Obama left vacant.
The president-elect has scheduled another press conference for Tuesday at which he will announce he will nominate Chicago Public Schools chief Arne Duncan to be secretary of education,according to a source familiar with the plans. Mr. Duncan is known as a reformer in the education community.