Comments on: N.Y. Gov. Linked To Prostitute

Eliot Spitzer Apologizes To Family, Public But Does Not Elaborate; Source Says Gov. Caught On Wiretap

[watcher269-2009]

Spitzer''''s Clintonian defense.

"I paid her but I didn''''t put it in all the way."

Posted by cbsblogger10

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Funny - but not as Funny as Sen. Craig''s Republican excuse.

"I didn''t pay him but I did stick it all the way in his BUTTt."

[samthetvcat]

"The IRS brought the FBI into the case several months ago because one of the money streams involved a high-ranking government official and that suggested possible government corruption. Spitzer''s name first surfaced last summer when IRS agents traced one particular money stream to Spitzer, according to law enforcement officials."

Wait, I just picked up on this - were they watching his accounts? Don''t you need a warrant for that? When this story first broke they made it sound like his transaction was picked up on wiretaps and the prostitute later identified him as Spitzer (and then the FBI subsequently tracked the money back to him).

This is a whole other story if it was the IRS who has been watching Spitzer in the hopes of catching him guilty of something . . . like it''d represent an expansion into our privacy rights in the area of bank accounts, much like how the Patriot act expanded into our privacy rights in the area of telephone calls.

[mdk2dude]

Another Democrat that will swear they didnt have ***. He just wanted to talk to her. Unfortunately he wanted to use Braille. I guess Obama will be the next one but all will be forgiven because afterall it is only *** and everyone does it. He needs to resign immediately and spare his family further embarrasment.

[cbsblogger10]

Spitzer''s Clintonian defense.

"I paid her but I didn''t put it in all the way."

[excoachken]

Once again, we are given a life lesson about the intoxication of success and how quickly our weaknesses can overpower our strengths during such a stupor.

[mortok99]

Men? *big gore sigh*.. Men are pioneers. Always looking fer new territories. New bushes and valleys and hills. Its not that we don''t like what we got. Its that once ya git it, there''s always something around the corner. Something.. more interesting.

[mortok99]

Funny, I''m not an expert on any of these things. But for some reason this is the stuff in most need of my layman''s input.

[tbweb]

In nations like France public officials including former French Presidents are frequently seen in public with the wife on one arm and the mistress on the other arm like its no big deal. The French think Americans are so old fashion when it comes to stuff like this. I don''t personally think its cool but different strokes for different folks! The point is in some nations this is trivial and in other nations like the U.S. its a big deal, a crime, adultery, a bible sin, including jail time and in extreme cases death! Gov. Eliot Spitzer took down 2 Prostitution rings during his career, they were gunning for him, he should have known better.

[irliberal]

It would seem to me that the thing that needs most to be thought about and discussed here is the way that we almost seem to accept law breaking, even from those charged with its enforcement
Posted by fleshmonger1 at 03:05 AM

Lets see. Spitzer was caught paying for a prostitute in an FBI sting operation. Now he''s going to lose his job and probably his marriage as well. AND he''s still under investigation by the FBI.

Even though he is not currently under indictment, the officials say Spitzer''s actions do expose him to possible criminal liability stemming from those transactions involving possible violations of tax laws, banking laws and money laundering. It falls under laws relating to what''s called "the structuring of payments."

Seems to me that everyone''s taking the law pretty seriously and what you''re talking about makes no sense whatsoever.

[fleshmonger1]

It would seem to me that the thing that needs most to be thought about and discussed here is the way that we almost seem to accept law breaking, even from those charged with its enforcement, with little or no concept of the value of law to a society and the resultant problems a society faces when laws are not looked upon as necessary to the health of a society. By being so nonchalant about our laws, we are in reality harming ourselves. Rather it be in allowing laws to stand or be created that govern things we really don''t believe bad or to ignore the breaking of laws by individuals because of their position, we tear away at whatever efficacy a system of law can provide a society...