Comments on: Why the Garcia Hit on Spitzer is About More Than an Injustice Done to Eliot

By: MarkH

MarkH — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:25:39 +0000

the man was “politically assassinated” because of that 13-FEB op-ed

Joe Wilson & Valerie Plame Wilson

By: MarkH

MarkH — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:20:21 +0000

As unsympathetic as Spitzer is, this was a manufactured scandal. The media ate it up because it was lurid and about sex.

Damn Liberal press!

How long will it take and how many instances such as this will it require before the public sees how the press collaborates with the Republicans?

By: maryo2

maryo2 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:58:33 +0000

This is the first one I found just now. I have more that I will look for.

http://www.tediumshift.com/bre.....20Sept.pdf

So why was the Attorney General so adamant on setting up the wiretaps? The answer lies in an event that occurred months before the attacks in Florida. A prostitute who worked for a madam named Judy Krueger had an Arabic client who told the call girl about the plans his terrorist group had, including the hijacking of planes and the WTC. After her “date” with the Arabic client, the girl called her madam with the terrifying information. The madam decided they should tell the police, which they did. The local police decided that this was a matter for the FBI, so they sent the call girl and the madam to the local FBI office. Rather than investigating the information the call girl and the madam had given them, the FBI began investigating the madam and subsequently set her up and turned her into an informant to help them set up other madams across the nation. Thus, on the morning that thousands of people were being murdered in the WTC and the Pentagon by the terrorist (who had visited the prostitute) and his accomplices, the FBI were busy placing wiretaps on the phones of a national network of madams and prostitutes.

By: Rayne

Rayne — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:13:44 +0000

looseheadprop — the man was “politically assassinated” because of that 13-FEB op-ed, IMO. Have investigative reporting underway which certainly makes the case. Think WaMu, AIG, FirstAm…what do they have in common?

By: Margot

Margot — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:36:58 +0000

I’d love to learn more about that; do you have a link or suggest somewhere I could read about it?
If I ever heard this, I have forgotten it.

By: maryo2

maryo2 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:30:16 +0000

One thing that struck me about the Spitzer case is that a hooker in New York cooperated with the FBI investigators. A hooker cooperating with FBI investigtors in New York is exactly how the FBI’s New York office came to *not* investigate the then-future 911 hijackers.

By: squib

squib — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:58:49 +0000

I would add to the list the mother of all political prosecutions the impeachment of Bill Clinton

By: looseheadprop

looseheadprop — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:36:53 +0000

I would love to be able to grill the people involved inthe Spitzer case about what, if any, “guidance” they got from who in DC?

By: looseheadprop

looseheadprop — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:34:25 +0000

First of all, in a crimianl case discovery is pretty limited. Secondly, yes, discovery rights kick in AFTER you are charged.

That being said, Spitzer may have seen what the feds had –there is something called the “open file policy” that encourages prosecutors to show their ahnd of cards to encourage people with no meaningful defense to plead guilty.

Nope, discovery would not be much help to Spitzer here. investigating the leak on theo ther hand…?

By: looseheadprop

looseheadprop — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:31:34 +0000

I am suggesting that THIS instance and the Seiligman case be taken through to conclusion. I just hope that defense counsel don’t get any bright ideas about making “investigate the prosecutor” a new fad