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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
Why should he resign? Apparently he's not going to, but Clinton didn't resign. Granted, he didn't pay for it, but I don't see this as being a particularly heinous crime.
As AG, Spitzer showed light on some pretty unsavory business practices. Unfortunately, one of those involved a friend of mine who's not out of the woods yet, but he'll be the first to tell you that he did what he did.
He should finish his term. This doesn't change any of his accomplishments, although it probably kills his White House aspirations, at least for now.
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Okay, The_Jazz....bingo!!!! Now, it fucking stinks.....
Spitzer comes from a very wealthy family...why would the feds be monitoring his financial transactions looking for "bribes", unless it is because of "pay back"...officially sactioned politically motivated revenge..... or other political expediency?
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http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4424507&page=1
The federal investigation of a New York prostitution ring was triggered by Gov. Eliot Spitzer's suspicious money transfers, initially leading agents to believe Spitzer was hiding bribes, according to federal officials.
It was only months later that the IRS and the FBI determined that Spitzer wasn't hiding bribes but payments to a company called QAT, what prosecutors say is a prostitution operation operating under the name of the Emperors Club. …
The suspicious financial activity was initially reported by a bank to the IRS which, under direction from the Justice Department, brought in the FBI's Public Corruption Squad.
"We had no interest at all in the prostitution ring until the thing with Spitzer led us to learn about it," said one Justice Department official
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Originally Posted by powerclown
Yeah let me rephrase that: Poor Judgement.
I agree, he should resign. He's got a bunch of daughters too, sadly.
You (poster #7) want to turn this into an indictment of Bush - some how, some way - color me unsurprised.
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Can you say partisan witch hunt, using the DOJ to intimidate and crush political opponents? Sheesh,....hasn't everyone learned yet....not to expect anything less from the Bush junta? These are thugs...what will it take to suspect and be skeptical of everything connected to them?
Can you even consider that this is setting an example for all other democrats who now are on notice that the police state is watching everything they do, too? Can you comprehend that the gutting of FISA was for the purposes of consolidating the politcal power of these thugs? No judge to oversee their snooping gives them the untraceable means to turn their intelligence collection against anyone for any reason.....