It seems all too obvious that the Spitzer Resignation connected to his entrapment by a plan laid out specificially to remove him from the Governorship and tarnish an otherwise exemplary career as a strong and determined advocate for 'the little people' was engineered by men obsessed with the wealth that power brings.
In several articles listed on this blog it was evident that the FBI 'sting' operation wasn't a 'sting' at all so much as a dogged hunt for the one opportunity to remove the potential Eliot Spitzer had to bring 'honesty' back to government.
I am not going to discuss the actual indiscretions of Mr. Spitzer within his marriage as I have stated that is a concern that is not mine, but, his and his family.
I will however point to the ONE story NO MEDIA SERVICE has yet to address and that is the use by the Bush/Cheney White House to carry out poltical agendas with federal agents. No one has to admit the FBI was ONLY after Former Governor Spitzer, I believe that is already completely clear.
In the article that follows it was noted that as soon as the arrests of the people involved with the Empire Club was made and they were arraigned, the New York Times was already exploiting this otherwise innocuous story. The reason they were was because of the blind political ambitions of those 'loyal' to the Bush Glory Train, namely Micheal Powell.
A Curious Vice Case (click here)
By MICHAEL POWELL and NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
Published: March 13, 2008
The scandal unfolded in an innocuous fashion. The press release was e-mailed to reporters on Thursday morning, shortly after 11 o’clock: “Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges Organizers and Managers of International Prostitution Ring.”
At first glance, the case seemed routine, and the suspects elicited no gapes of surprise: A man and three women arrested on charges of running a pricey, on-line escort business, known as Emperor’s Club V.I.P.
Marshals escorted the defendants into the courtroom, before Magistrate Michael H. Dolinger of the Federal District Court in Manhattan. Mark Brener, 62, accused of being the ringleader, looked to be dressed in the same black shirt he had been arrested in. Cecil Suwal, 23, was charged with being the operation’s day-to-day manager.
Temeka Rachelle Lewis, 32, and Tanya Hollander, 36, were accused of being the service’s booking agents. Ms. Lewis and Ms. Hollander were released on bail; Mr. Brener and Ms. Suwal remain in the Metropolitan Correctional Center, the federal jail in Lower Manhattan.
No one had talked of the escort ring’s inner workings, and certainly no one mentioned the governor’s name. Just one fact piqued interest for some in the room: The lead prosecutor on the case was Boyd M. Johnson III, the chief of the public corruption unit of the Manhattan United States attorney’s office.
Later that day, reporters at The New York Times learned of the unusual presence of three lawyers from the corruption unit, including the boss of that division and an F.B.I. agent from one of the bureau’s public corruption squads. The public corruption units often look at the conduct of elected officials....
For days afterward, Michael Powell exploited the political pressure the New York Times can bring to any subject:
A Fall From White Knight to Client 9 (click here)
By MICHAEL POWELL and MIKE McINTIRE
Published: March 11, 2008
He stands close to ruin’s precipice, this tireless crusader and once-charmed politician reduced to a notation on a federal affidavit: Client 9.
The ascent and descent of Eliot Spitzer’s career have been dizzying. He was the brainy kid who graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law School and became an avenging state attorney general, hunting down Wall Street malefactors with a moralistic fervor that sounded pitch-perfect. Everywhere he found “betrayals of the public trust” that were “shocking” and “criminal.”...
And while The Washington Post was stating Eliot Spitzer was being pursued by the FBI and was once before attempted to entrap without success the LYING that surrounds the media frenzy persisted because the Republicans are not interested in 'the truth;' they are interested in political exploitation of any 'spin' they can find.
The entire 'movement' surrounding the exploited nature of the circumstances the Former New York Governor would face, revolved around one suspicion. That suspicion was the fact a bank became alarmed about movement of money in accounts connected to Eliot Spitzer. To date there is speculation that is how he paid for his adventures outside his marriage, but, the fact the FBI has made false charges in AN ATTEMPT 'to fit the agenda' of the Republican Elite is simply outrageous and shows far more corruption at the FBI under the demands of a political Homeland Security Secretary than anywhere else in this episode of Republican intimidation of the electorate.
...The officials said federal authorities rarely prosecuted either offense, unless it was connected to a more serious illegal activity like human trafficking or drug smuggling. They also said investigators did not use some tools at their disposal. For example, while Mr. Spitzer’s encounter with the prostitute in Washington was carried out under heavy surveillance, there were no video or audio recording devices in the hotel room....
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/nyregion/12legal.html?pagewanted=2&sq=Michael%20Powell&st=nyt&scp=3
The FBI investigators literally went about 'making' the circumstances surrounding Mr. Spitzer carry more brevity than they actually do. They 'made' a case, rather than having a case expose itself as serious. Quite literally, the FBI, 'spun/evolved' the case against Eliot Spitzer without due cause EXCEPT it would 'fit the agenda' of the Republicans at the head of the Executive Branch.
If they will do this to a New York Governor, they'll do this to anyone.
THE MANN ACT OF 1910 (click here) is somewhat controversial in its content in that it can be used to enforce 'a particular' morality. Where it comes 'into service' to the people of the USA is when a Pimp or Traffiker literally transports individuals across state lines to make money from their sexual services. Mr. Eliot was not involved in traffiking or white slavery. He was involved in receiving services by a woman to his own pleasure outside the context of his relationship with his wife. There is a huge JUMP that occurred in the 'ideas' by the FBI that Mr. Spitzer would be guilty of any of the statutes of The Mann Act. The FBI literally took the content of 'The Rule of Law' discarded it and 'decided' in a corrupt culture to act against a New York Governor for the specific purpose of ruining his political career because of sexual antics outside his marriage. THAT, is a judgement of morality, NOT, of content important to the conduct of American Law or Justice.
The Republican administration, along with former members of that administration, laid out a plan to exploit 'barely prosecutable' crimes in order to exploit and spin the political potential of a demise of a Democratic Governor and casting even more shadows on the complete Democratic party. The FBI was exploited and so was 'the story' to create anxiety among the electorate for the upcoming 2008 Presidential Polling in November because Democrats are favored in light of the corruption that exists in the Republican Party and their willingness to wage war without end.
