Spitzer Prostitution Wiretaps to Become Public

[bobthedrummer]

Source: AP via CNBC

A Manhattan judge has ordered the government to make public sealed documents about wiretaps in the Eliot Spitzer scandal.

Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/id/29282296

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As part of the agreement, 67 of the names will not be published. But that won't stop us amateur intelligence analysts from speculating!

[CreekDog]

1. there are some details i could live without knowing

:eyes:

[Frustratedlady]

2. I wonder if they'll bring up that article Spitzer wrote about the coverups?

I can't find the link, right now, but a department was told to back off (by Bush) regarding the housing situation, I think it was. It was dated March 10, 2007, I think.

That probably won't be mentioned, but I'll bet it has something to do with why they brought him down so quickly. Never the obvious...I doubt they cared about his extra-curricular activities.

[2Design]

11. that is where I want this focus to go - but the media will focus on the

sex instead of the facts of the good work spitzer was doing and the rw loves that

[MetaTrope]

13. And also, whatever happened to John Edwards?

[Phred42]

3. Every Time they Smear Spitzer - LET'S REMEMBER WHY

they are doing it


Predatory Lenders' Partner in Crime
How the Bush Administration Stopped the States From Stepping In to Help Consumers

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021302783.html

[florida08]

4. exactly

and why they want to continue to smear this man is right in line with the GOP'ers style of politics

[BR_Parkway]

5. Eliot, prostitute, madam and banker - who else is out there? 64 FBI guys?

[wroberts189]

6. CORRUPT Wall street cheered his demise with glee.

and because of it they are now watching their own.

[wroberts189]

7. Another important snippet

"Thursday's ruling was a result of a request by The New York Times to unseal documents that outlined the prosecutors' probable cause for wiretapping two cellphones belonging to the prostitution ring."



probable cause? I guess we will finally find out.

[No Elephants]

8. Wait just a doggone

minute.






"Judge Jed Rakoff ruled on Thursday that the public's right to know about an investigation that led to the resignation of the governor outweighed any privacy concerns, especially since the names of other clients were to be redacted."


Okay, especially because the names of the OTHER CLIENTS are redacted?


Why is it okay to identify Spitzer, but none of the other johns?


And why is okay to identify all the prostitutes, but none of the johns, besides Spitzer?

[pleah]

9. Very good questions.

:thumbsup:

[wroberts189]

15. Ill second that one ... good post nt

[NashVegas]

16. I Agree 100%

Identify those other johns and maybe we'll start getting enough pissed off, rich white guys to get something done about abuses of power.

[Joanne98]

10. He was a Madoff investor. This may be related to that.

The timing is questionable

[peacetalksforall]

12. I hate articles like this. WHO WHAT WHERE essentials missing and there is tilt. -

Again, after all these months they write it to make it sound like Spitzer ran a ring. Not until the fifth/sixth paragraphs do they say he was a client NOT A RING LEADER.\\

It is just despicable. Anyone who respects NBC is stupid.

We're lucky that Maddox and Olberman have a voice. THAT IS THE LIMIT.

CNBC is the voice of thieves and they want to keep smearing him.

[Canuckistanian]

14. Looking forward to the David Vitter releases

Haha, just kidding....

[tom_paine]

17. ROFL. Inverted Totalitarianism is so cute and predictable, isn't it?

OK, not cute. No more than a monstrous evil with blood-slathered jaws could ever be?

But it is predictable.

Yeah, Vitter. :rofl:

He gets a standing ovation in the Senate. No further investigation. No further prosecution. Excused from testifying at trial. I wonder if he shit his diaper in teary-eyed joy?

Inverted Totalitarianism, with all it's hug-a-bear window dressing as it pretends to be the Wolf in Grandma's Clothes, is as brutal and inevitable as it's Classic Totalitarianism predecessors.

Just less violent.