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I had read that the local USAO did seek and get a green light once Spitzer's name popped up. That was yesterday.

And host, don't rely on news articles to tell me how investigations go. I worked in the SDNY courthouse, and I can tell you that reporters ALWAYS got it wrong on the cases I worked on. If you want to know how investigatiosn are run, pull down the flippin' DOJ guidelines and read them. Also the AUSA manual.

The Public Integrity section lawyers were the ones behind Garcia during the news conf, and they were given a special private area in the USAO to work on the case, precisely to prevent premature leaks. You didn't hear anything until after the indictment, did you? It was three relatively junior AUSAs who did the legwork on this one. Your mind is running away with conspiracy theories.

When yo'ure done reading the DOJ guidelines and the AUSA manual, come back and we'll talk. I'm not interested in what the NY Times says.

EDIT: host, I didn't mean to be snotty in this post, but I spent three years in law school, a year of a judicial clerkship and 24 years in legal practice, and I got pretty annoyed having you lecture me about how the legal process works, based on - of all things - an article in the NY Times.