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There is also a long history of doing this, just one example: https://www.google.com/search?q=fbi%20mlk https://www.google.com/search?q=fbi%20mlk Another (not

by kmonsen 12y ago

There is also a long history of doing this, just one example: https://www.google.com/search?q=fbi%20mlk https://www.google.com/search?q=fbi%20mlk Another (not so clear) example is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer_prostitution_scandal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer_prostitution_scan... He was called "Wall Streets worst nightmare", and suddenly he has to resign because he spent time with a prostitute.

maxerickson 12y ago
Spitzer was also evading financial regulations. Or do you mean to imply that it was a fabricated hit job? Because to me it seems to be a real problem when a law enforcement official is giving himself special treatment.
- bsder 12y ago
  > Or do you mean to imply that it was a fabricated hit job? Suspected parallel construction. They used illegal collected records in order to find the dirt, and then dug it out using other means that were quasi-legal. That having been said, an anti-prostitution crusader who is using prostitutes deserves exactly what he got. If he hadn't been a crusader, I would have been sympathetic. It just like Republican congressmen. I really don't care how or with whom they're having sex, as long as they aren't crusading against what they, themselves, are doing.
sneak 12y ago
Joseph Nacchio is a better example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio They threw a bunch of insider trading charges at him when he impeded efforts by the NSA to get Qwest (of which he was chairman and CEO at the time) to do warrantless bulk collection.
Spooky23 12y ago
Spitzer was out of control. His sin was alienating all of those around him.... Many folks in Albany were cheering his demise. The other two leaders of the legislature have been prosecuted for corruption. His Lieutenant Governor upon succeeding Spitzer disclosed that he was a cocaine user that routinely cheated on his wife. You need to look at Spitzer through the lens of corruption that is NY politics... He was a victim of hubris, not conspiracy.

by kmonsen 12y ago

maxerickson 12y ago

Spitzer was also evading financial regulations. Or do you mean to imply that it was a fabricated hit job? Because to me it seems to be a real problem when a law enforcement official is giving himself special treatment.

bsder 12y ago
> Or do you mean to imply that it was a fabricated hit job? Suspected parallel construction. They used illegal collected records in order to find the dirt, and then dug it out using other means that were quasi-legal. That having been said, an anti-prostitution crusader who is using prostitutes deserves exactly what he got. If he hadn't been a crusader, I would have been sympathetic. It just like Republican congressmen. I really don't care how or with whom they're having sex, as long as they aren't crusading against what they, themselves, are doing.

sneak 12y ago

Joseph Nacchio is a better example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio They threw a bunch of insider trading charges at him when he impeded efforts by the NSA to get Qwest (of which he was chairman and CEO at the time) to do warrantless bulk collection.

Spooky23 12y ago

Spitzer was out of control. His sin was alienating all of those around him.... Many folks in Albany were cheering his demise. The other two leaders of the legislature have been prosecuted for corruption. His Lieutenant Governor upon succeeding Spitzer disclosed that he was a cocaine user that routinely cheated on his wife. You need to look at Spitzer through the lens of corruption that is NY politics... He was a victim of hubris, not conspiracy.