This means that illegal wiretapping has been excepted in the Spitzer story and accepted by the morons who comprise the bellshape curve of the American public.

If David Paterson is Governor of New York (not automatic–Bill Clinton stayed President with tons of scandals)he will be the fourth African American and legally blind as MSNBC First Read reports.

It’s distressing to see that superficial MSM sees the root of the Spitzer story as an IRS investigation rather than illegal bank data mining as the NYT reported in June 2006.

The only good political news today is that Al Franken now will be the Democratic More and Better Candidate for the U.S. Senate from Minnesota a state polluted by Rachel Paulose the scumbag now residing at Main Justice making over a hundred grand for being a a scumbag.

The other piece of good news is that Hillary Clinton’s totally false experience claim is now getting vetted center stage as she looses by more than 20% in Missisippi and the masses learn that any term about “victory in a state” is completely false–it’s about the delegates. Obama won the delegate count in Texas; not Clinton and most of hte big states she claims were quite close as to delegate votes. Clinton continues to gaze heavenword and lie about purported experience.

ALBANY, N.Y. – New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s connection to a prostitution ring could mean bad news for presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton, who needs every superdelegate vote she can get.

Spitzer, a Clinton supporter, is under pressure to resign

Toronto Star link:
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/338768

Great job on this thread bmaz!!!

and my look at scott horton this am confirms those suspicions.

“sex” targeting was always been a rove favorite –

very easy for the public to understand, you know,

and very valuable commercially for the media.

personally, i cannot imagine that this investigation is anything other than an exploitation of “anti-terrorist” eavesdropping.

and to be quite specific,

i expect that when we know the whole story

we will discover that the spitzer case involved the bush administration’s use of its anti-terrorists wiretapping authority to damage a political opponent.

that was always its most tempting and most likely abuse.

and isn’t this spitzer case a neat one if you are going to abuse your snooping powers:

- the gov did something most folks consider bad, so no public sympathy for the gov

and

- the bush administration can claim that it was not targeting spitzer, though it almost certainly was, but was merely sifting data and “just happened” to stumble upon the spitzer bank info.

the REAL potential for the fisa “reforms” should be rapidly becoming apparent to all.

i wonder how the congress will react to this vis a vis fisa “reforms” and telecom immunity.

maybe congressfolk will suddenly decide they personally don’t want to be “stumbled upon ” by an opposing administration.

The conversations, according to the affidavit, were among more than 5,000 telephone calls and text messages that the federal authorities intercepted during the course of the investigation into the prostitution ring, which began last October. Investigators also seized more than 6,000 e-mail messages, bank records, and travel and hotel records, and conducted physical surveillance.

made me wonder about about a few things. First, it couldn’t have been that tough for the Feds, once they checked out the “shell” company of QAT, to figure out that they were dealing with a prostitution ring. Second, there the combined reports of the wiretap expiring, and also a reference in one of the stories to a prostitute agreeing to become a source and the timing of the wiretap to start back up the day before an appointment, and the recorded phone message back, makes me wonder if “Temeka” was working with the feds.

But the biggest question involves how much of the Dem Govenor’s communications were subject to eavesdropping – wiretaps and intercepts – and what happened to that info. How many people were given access, then those they gave it to, then the next tier. With this DOJ, I don’t believe they kept themselves targeted on prostitutes phone numbers for the calls they intercepted. With this DOJ, the main thing separating the prostitutes from the AUSAs is the quality of the wax job.

The Mann Act. I looked it up last night, and from what I could glean,the vast majority of the human race would be culpable. If the Mann act was vigorously prosecuted in the 60’s…..Woodstock could have been shut down in a heat beat. And, they would only have had to go after the bands.

Targeting Bad Democrats

Who Cares If Eliot Spitzer Hires Prostitutes

We all remember this story but it has receded into the background, and I think it is of supreme importance–broken first by NYT
Bank Data Is Sifted by U.S. in Secret to Block Terror:

Treasury chief defends global bank data tracking

I think Glenn Greenwald’s take as always is helpful.

Targeting Bad Democrats

Targeting bad Democrats

I think the only people who believes an illegal wiretap wasn’t the source for this and many DOJ political prosecutions are Elizabeth Airhead Postergirl Hasselbach on The View, and in this case the rest of the ladies on The View who have him making a prostitute cross state lines with of course no substantive evidence because evidence is inconvenient and it gets in the way.

This means that illegal wiretapping has been excepted by the morons who comprise the bellshape curve of the American public.

Mention of serial affairs in Barbara Walters and Whoopie Goldbergs’ past–Not.

And of course the important takeaway for today is that Barbara Walters has met Silda at a luncheon. I’m informed now.

on the one hand, they explain that the whole involvement of spitzer and the prostitution ring was secondary to discovering the money issues that were raised by questionable bank activities. these are explained as routine and automatic flags on potentially questionable bank transactions, mandated after 9/11 for all transactions over $10,000.

ok. that makes sense. but then it’s reported (i.e., parroted) that spitzer was evidently making these several small bank transfers that eventually ended up in these shell company accounts.

uh, ok? but then, if spitzer is being nailed for structuring, why are they even bringing up the 9/11 mandated reporting piece? if the banks were only (innocently?) marking ONLY those flagged transactions OVER 10 Gs, then how is it they ended up accusing him of structuring?

and if his transactions triggered this investigation, how is it his reference is #9 in the indictment (and is he indicted there?)? especially considering the late timing of his ‘immoral’ behavior (as opposed to the structuring ‘crime’ that was automatically flagged as are all transactions over 10 G).

stinky stinky stinky.