NEW YORK TIMES EXPOSE. NOBODY INVESTIGATES POLITICOS & WHORES.
SPITZER WAS TARGETED! Some SERIOUS CUI BONUM somewhere.
They wanted him taken out!An article published by the New York Times raises serious
questions about the official explanation given by federal prosecutors
for the high-powered investigation into the sexual activities of former
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer that led to Spitzer’s public humiliation
and forced resignation .
The article, written by David Johnston and Philip Shenon, cites Justice
Department lawyers and former federal prosecutors who make it clear that
federal criminal investigations into public officials, like Spitzer, who
are identified as clients of prostitution rings are extraordinarily
rare.The article also points to anomalies in the 47-page affidavit filed
March 5 along with the federal complaint against four employees of the
Emperor’s Club prostitution ring which Spitzer allegedly patronized. The
affidavit lists ten clients of the call-girl ring, but does not name
them, referring to them only by number. Spitzer, client number 9, is the
only one whose identity was leaked by federal officials to the press.And, as the Times article points out, the affidavit “provided far more
detail, some of it unusually explicit, about Client 9’s encounter with
the prostitute than about any of the nine other clients identified by
number in the document.”The implication is that the affidavit was drawn up in such as way as to
provide quasi-pornographic grist for a media-promoted sex scandal that
would compel the recently elected governor to resign—which is precisely
what occurred. Within two days of the first reports of Spitzer’s links
to the call-girl ring—published by the self same New York Times—the
governor announced his resignation.The article underscores the point as follows: “Several current and
former federal prosecutors and prominent defense lawyers who reviewed
the document said the inclusion of such salacious details about Mr.
Spitzer’s encounter with the prostitute went far beyond what was
necessary to provide probable cause for the arrests and for searches,
the purpose of the affidavit.”While questioning the official explanation, the article draws no
conclusions as to the motives behind the Spitzer investigation. However,
the only plausible interpretation is that the Justice Department/FBI
probe was a political operation directed by the Bush administration for
the purpose of reversing an election and removing from office the
Democratic governor of the third largest state in the country.This conclusion is reinforced by a March 22 McClatchy Newspapers report
that Roger Stone, a resident of Miami Beach and notorious Republican
“dirty trickster” since the Nixon era, had a role in the probe of
Spitzer. The Kansas City Star reported that Stone’s lawyer sent a letter
last November to the FBI alleging that Spitzer had hired prostitutes
while in Florida.The letter, released by Stone’s lawyer, states: “The governor has paid
literally thousands of dollars for these services. It is Mr. Stone’s
understanding that the governor paid not with credit cards or cash but
through some pre-arranged transfer.”Stone, recruited by the 2000 Bush campaign to block a recount of votes
in the disputed Florida election, is credited with organizing the
near-riot of Republican congressional staff members and other operatives
that succeeded in shutting down the vote recount in Miami-Dade County.
According to the Star, the letter from Stone’s lawyer was in response to
requests from FBI agents investigating Spitzer to speak with his client.As the World Socialist Web Site has said since the eruption of the
Spitzer affair, we have no political sympathy for the former New York
governor, a typical American bourgeois politician and multi-millionaire
who, in his short term in office, proposed or carried out hundreds of
millions of dollars in budget cuts to social programs. Nor are we
indifferent to the social issues raised by the purchase of the services
of a human being for personal gratification.However, the essential issue raised in this case is the role of the
state apparatus, utilizing the immense financial and technological
resources and police powers of the federal government, enhanced by the
new domestic spying powers granted under laws enacted in the name of the
bogus “war on terror,” in manipulating political life and intimidating,
silencing or removing those deemed to be political obstacles.The New York Times article sheds additional light on the scope
and intrusiveness of the Justice Department investigation into the
former New York governor, and makes clear that it was anything but
routine. It begins: “The Justice Department used some of its most
intrusive tactics against Eliot Spitzer, examining his financial
records, eavesdropping on his phone class and tailing him during its
criminal investigation of the Emperor’s Club prostitution ring.“The scale and intensity of the investigation of Mr. Spitzer, then the
governor of New York, seemed on its face to be a departure for the
Justice Department, which aggressively investigates allegations of
wrongdoing by public officials, but almost never investigates people who
pay prostitutes for sex.“A review of recent federal cases shows that federal prosecutors go
sparingly after owners and operators of prostitution enterprises, and
usually only when millions of dollars are involved or there are
aggravating circumstances, like human trafficking or child
exploitation.”On the massive scale of the dragnet, the article states: “The focus on
Mr. Spitzer was so intense that the FBI used surveillance teams to
follow both him and the prostitute in Washington in February. The
surveillance teams had followed him at least once before—when he visited
the city in January but did not engage a prostitute, officials said,
confirming a report in the Washington Post. Stakeouts and surveillance
are labor-intensive and often involve teams of a dozen or more agents
and non-agent specialists.”On the extraordinary nature of the Justice Department decision to pursue
a criminal investigation into Spitzer’s use of call-girl services, the
Times cites Bradley D. Simon, described as “a veteran Justice Department
trial lawyer who was federal prosecutor in Brooklyn throughout the
1990s.” The newspaper writes:“Mr. Simon said it was unusual for the department to bring criminal
charges in a prostitution case in which there was no allegation of the
exploitation of children, human trafficking or some more serious crime.“He said that in his eight years in the Brooklyn office in the 1990s, he
could not recall a single major criminal case that centered on
prostitution charges. ‘There were a lot of serious crimes—organized
crime, narcotics cases, major financial crime investigations,’ he said
in an interview. ‘Prostitution was not a high priority.’”The article concludes: “Justice Department officials insist that it has
a strong record of breaking up large prostitution rings around the
country, but many of the cases they cite involve cases brought several
years ago, especially before the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks; after
that, the department vowed to focus its attention on national security
threats.“And for years, they acknowledge, the department has rarely, if ever,
prosecuted or even identified the clients of a prosecution ring.”The Times cites unnamed government officials who defend the Spitzer
investigation and repeat the official story that it began when one of
the then-governor’s banks filed reports with the US Treasury Department
of suspicious transactions in his account. “The reports suggested to
investigators,” the newspaper writes, “that Mr. Spitzer might have been
trying to keep anyone from noticing transfers of his own funds. That is
the kind of activity that can bring an investigation of the possibility
of corruption.”However, even if this account of the origins of the investigation is
true, it does not explain why a decision was made by the Department of
Justice’s Public Integrity Section and the US attorney of the Southern
District of New York to continue the probe after no evidence was found
of bribery, influence-peddling, illegal use of campaign funds or any
other form of political corruption.The Times article cites the unidentified government officials as saying
that “once they learned that such a prominent figure was involved in
soliciting prostitutes, and had seemed to be arranging sex in violation
of the statute that prohibits travel across state lines to engage in
sex, they wanted to follow the evidence.”Why? At the point where no evidence was found of corruption, there was
no legitimate reason for the Justice Department to press ahead with a
criminal investigation of the governor of New York.The statute referred to is a 1910 law known as the Mann Act, banning the
interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes.” This federal law
has been used numerous times for reactionary purposes, including the
cases of black boxer Jack Johnson, Charlie Chaplin and singer Chuck
Berry. The Justice Department and FBI had to invoke this law to justify
a federal probe of Spitzer’s sexual activities.But none of the Public Integrity Section reports for 2004, 2005 or 2006,
which cite dozens of cases of bribe-taking and influence-peddling by
public officials, have a single reference to prostitution or the Mann
Act.The Times cites “senior political appointees” at the Justice Department
in Washington as saying they had “little involvement in the case,” and
asserts that Attorney General Michael Mukasey, a former federal judge in
New York, was not even told about the case until shortly before March 5,
when the complaint was filed against four of the prostitution ring’s
employees.This flatly contradicts previous reports that Mukasey signed off on the
Spitzer probe. Moreover, it is wholly unbelievable that top officials in
the Justice Department would not have been consulted about a criminal
investigation of a powerful and nationally prominent elected official.The information contained in the New York Times article confirms the
analysis made by the World Socialist Web Site and a number of legal
experts that the investigation of Spitzer was a politically motivated
dragnet organized by the Bush administration for reactionary and
anti-democratic ends.It was well known that Spitzer had presidential aspirations. He had also
made many enemies on Wall Street, because of his well-publicized
investigations, during his time as New York State attorney general, of
prominent bankers and stock market officials.A political “hit” against Spitzer would be entirely in line with the
modus operandi of the Bush administration, which came to power on the
basis of electoral fraud and the suppression of votes, and continued its
anti-democratic and conspiratorial practices by dragging the country
into war on the basis of lies and using the Justice Department to carry
out trumped-up voter fraud prosecutions of Democratic candidates and
their supporters, as revealed in last year’s scandal over the firing of
nine US attorneys.In a country wracked by political and economic crisis and dominated by
an ever-widening chasm between a financial oligarchy and the working
class, the methods of conspiracy and provocation, including the use of
sex scandals as an instrument of political manipulation, become
increasingly pervasive.The ultimate target is not the Eliot Spitzers of the world, but the
democratic rights of the American working class.An insider tried to
tell us the sins of gov, congress and wall street and was ruined.
Eliot was trying to tell us the truth. Send Eliot a message. Start snooping
in the garbage that he was going thru. It had nothing to do with hookers.
It was about OBAMA, GIULIANI, THE MOB, WALL STREET, Congress and the WHITE HOUSE.
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