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Rod Blagojevich: “I want to have every taped conversation of the wiretaps on the phones involved heard in that process. I am in many ways…”

On the recordJanuary 26, 2009
I want to have every taped conversation of the wiretaps on the phones involved heard in that process. I am in many ways the anti-Richard Nixon who worked very hard during Watergate to keep those tapes from being heard. And I want everyone of them heard so that the full story could come out.

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Blagojevich insists on transparency regarding the wiretapped conversations to clear his name.

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