Bill
12-02-2008, 02:27 AM
Wow, somebody in congress is pretending to do their job.
They are investigating - "A congressional committee is investigating the circumstances that led to the sex scandal causing the downfall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/eliot_l_spitzer/index.html?inline=nyt-per) and whether the case was politically motivated.
The House Financial Services Committee seeks to determine whether federal agents misused their expanded powers under the Patriot Act (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/u/usa_patriot_act/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier).".
Naturally, nothing will come of it.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Spitzer-Prostitution.html?_r=1
Officials have said a number of unusual money transfers by the governor triggered a ''suspicious activity report'' within the banking system.
Eventually, that report led to a full-blown criminal investigation of Spitzer.
The congressional committee seeks details of the case to the extent that it shows how effective the suspicious activity reports have been in catching terrorists and their financiers, Adamske said. And he said the panel would like to know exactly how the Spitzer case started.
''It is a concern that we have that (the law) could be used for political reasons,'' Adamske said.
Several committee members wrote a letter to financial authorities in July seeking specific answers on the Spitzer case, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
From metafilter:
It turns out that Spitzer's character assassination (http://brasschecktv.com/page/291.html) may have been more Bush Administration sock puppetry -- back on Valentine's Day, Spitzer wrote an editorial (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021302783_pf.html) in the WaPo demonizing the lack of consumer protections and was about to file a lawsuit against several Wall Street firms for predatory lending (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-g-brant/eliot-spitzer-george-bus_b_91764.html?page=2&show_comment_id=11987144#comment_11987144), but the Justice Department caught him with his fly undone and the papers didn't get filed.
As a result, we had that October-November financial collapse and a quiet $200 billion bail-out turned into a $900 billion bail-out. Greg Palast was on it, but the MSM didn't bother to look into it. But this past week, Congress did (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Spitzer-Prostitution.html)...
They are investigating - "A congressional committee is investigating the circumstances that led to the sex scandal causing the downfall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/eliot_l_spitzer/index.html?inline=nyt-per) and whether the case was politically motivated.
The House Financial Services Committee seeks to determine whether federal agents misused their expanded powers under the Patriot Act (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/u/usa_patriot_act/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier).".
Naturally, nothing will come of it.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Spitzer-Prostitution.html?_r=1
Officials have said a number of unusual money transfers by the governor triggered a ''suspicious activity report'' within the banking system.
Eventually, that report led to a full-blown criminal investigation of Spitzer.
The congressional committee seeks details of the case to the extent that it shows how effective the suspicious activity reports have been in catching terrorists and their financiers, Adamske said. And he said the panel would like to know exactly how the Spitzer case started.
''It is a concern that we have that (the law) could be used for political reasons,'' Adamske said.
Several committee members wrote a letter to financial authorities in July seeking specific answers on the Spitzer case, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
From metafilter:
It turns out that Spitzer's character assassination (http://brasschecktv.com/page/291.html) may have been more Bush Administration sock puppetry -- back on Valentine's Day, Spitzer wrote an editorial (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021302783_pf.html) in the WaPo demonizing the lack of consumer protections and was about to file a lawsuit against several Wall Street firms for predatory lending (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-g-brant/eliot-spitzer-george-bus_b_91764.html?page=2&show_comment_id=11987144#comment_11987144), but the Justice Department caught him with his fly undone and the papers didn't get filed.
As a result, we had that October-November financial collapse and a quiet $200 billion bail-out turned into a $900 billion bail-out. Greg Palast was on it, but the MSM didn't bother to look into it. But this past week, Congress did (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Spitzer-Prostitution.html)...