....and is it routine for federal DOJ officials to release the identities of "Johns", in a case like this?
Wire tapping, search warrants, cell phone text messgage interception, why?
From the indictment:
Quote:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/package...-complaint.pdf
Page 12
7. As demonstrated below, the evidence obtained
during this investigation includes, among other things,
statements of a confidential source who worked with the Emperors
Club; statements of an undercover officer; more than 5,000
telephone calls and text messages intercepted pursuant to courtauthorized
wiretaps; more than 6,000 e-mails recovered pursuant
to court-authorized search warrants; bank records; travel and
hotel records; and physical surveillance.
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Quote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/ny...l?ref=politics
By DANNY HAKIM and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
Published: March 10, 2008
ALBANY - Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who gained national prominence relentlessly pursuing Wall Street wrongdoing, has been caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute at a Washington hotel last month, according to a law enforcement official and a person briefed on the investigation.....
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<h3>NY Governor Spitzer is certainly a huge hypocrite, and should resign for that reason,</h3> but the circumstances of this investigation need to be examined by the press....the government certainly won't be doing it.
Why the intensity and the amount of federal LE investigative and analytical reaources brought to bear on these "crimes", during what we have had drummed into us, is a period of "national emergency", code "orange alert", why the release of Spitzer's identity to the press?