Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Meglio puttaniere che ladro

Elliott Spitzer era quello che,negli USA, si avvicina a Di Pietro.  Ha
costruito la sua carriera a correre dietro ad affaristi e politici
corrotti.  Quando si e' dimesso, si dice che nella sede della New York
Stock Exchange si e' levato un'urlo di gioia.
Pacifico che fosse un puttaniere.   Quel che e' peggio, teneva per
quella troia di Hillary :)
Ma pare che il fatto che solo lui fosse investigato dall'FBI per
prostituzione non sia del tutto scollegato dalla schiera di nemici che
si e' fatto fra gli affaristi con connessioni alla casa bianca.  Il
suo arresto, e' un'avvertimento al prossimo governatore o procuratore
Americano che vorra' investigare il mondo degli affari.  E per gli
USA, questa non e' una buona notizia.
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/03/hbc-90002589
...
However, there is a second tier of questions that needs to be examined
with respect to the Spitzer case. They go to prosecutorial motivation
and direction. Note that this prosecution was managed with staffers
from the Public Integrity Section at the Department of Justice. This
section is now at the center of a major scandal concerning politically
directed prosecutions. During the Bush Administration, his Justice
Department has opened 5.6 cases against Democrats for every one
involving a Republican. Beyond this, a number of the cases seem to
have been tied closely to election cycles. Indeed, a study of the
cases out of Alabama shows clearly that even cases opened against
Republicans are in fact only part of a broader pattern of going after
Democrats. So here are the rather amazing facts that surface in the
Spitzer case:
(1) The prosecutors handling the case came from the Public Integrity
Section.
(2) The prosecution is opened under the White-Slave Traffic Act of
1910. You read that correctly. The statute itself is highly
disreputable, and most of the high-profile cases brought under it were
politically motivated and grossly abusive. Here are a few:
    *Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson was the first man
prosecuted under the act -- for having an affair with Lucille Cameron,
whom he later married. The prosecution was manifestly an effort "to
get" Johnson, who at the time was the most famous African-American.
(All of this is developed well in Ken Burns's film "Unforgiveable
Blackness").
    *University of Chicago sociologist William I. Thomas was
prosecuted for having an affair with an officer's wife in France.
Thomas was targeted because of his Bohemian social and his radical
political views.
    *In 1944 Charles Chaplin was prosecuted for having an affair with
actress Joan Barry. The prosecution again provided cover for a
politically motivated effort to drive Chaplin out of the country.
    *Canadian author Elizabeth Smart was arrested and charged in 1940
while crossing the border with the British poet George Barker.
(3) The resources dedicated to the case in terms of prosecutors and
investigators are extraordinary.
(4) How the investigation got started. The Justice Department has yet
to give a full account of why they were looking into Spitzer's
payments, and indeed the suggestion in the ABC account is that it
didn't have anything to do with a prostitution ring. The suggestion
that this was driven by an IRS inquiry and involved a bank might
heighten, rather than allay, concerns of a politically motivated
prosecution.
All of these facts are consistent with a process which is not the
investigation of a crime, but rather an attempt to target and build a
case against an individual.
The answer of the Justice Department to all this is likely to be:
Trust us. But in the current environment, the reservoir of trust is
tapped. The Justice Department needs to submit to some questions about
how this probe got launched, who launched it, and to what extent
political appointees were involved in its direction. This has nothing
to do with Spitzer's guilt or innocence. But it has everything to do
with the fading integrity of the Public Integrity Section.

 Americano che vorra' investigare il mondo degli affari.
Non e' mai stato arrestato, *COGLIONE* di un Torrieri.
-Stefano