the so many other cases we've read and heard of in the last few years give credence to the hypothesis described here. "cheering in wall street" was one description from another source of the response to the original news regarding the event. how do we citizens discover the truth and act accordingly if it begins with 'cheering in our own justice department? i haven't seen many stories yet with this take and hope there's follow-up.

This excellent article reaches under the salacious headlines of a politician and a prostitute to disclose the underlying motivation for a corrupt and politicized branch of the Justice Department to attack a Democratic State governor.

The 1910 White Slave Traffic Act??? who knew? This article is excellent and asks the big questions: How did the Justice Dept. determine the necessity of pursuing this case? What amount of resources were spent on this one case and why? What does the ratio of 5 to 1, Dem to Gop investigations tell us ?

This story is journalism at its best. It peels away a layer of information to ply deeper motives that what is understood by initial reports.

so why was Spitzer being investigated? the Harper article has a justifiedly skeptical view of the Justice Department's motivations and integrity.

This isn't a typical "everything about an event" news story, so it can't be rated as such. It is, however, an excellent example of the "facts that may have been overlooked by others" story, which is a breed unto itself.

The evidence recently of the prosecution of Siegelman being a politically motivated prosecution by a justice department converted into a partisan political tool underlies this story, which suggests politicalization of the justice department was behind the surveilance of Spitzer. And nobody can find out if the information originally derived from illegal wiretaps that bush/cheney put in place, because of course that information must be kept "secret" because of all the terrorists who are Democratic governors.

The author of this opinion piece is uninformed about the facts. To say "Spitzer—who was previously viewed as a rising star in the Democratic Party" ignores the fact that Democrats have been trying to get rid of Spitzer for a year, ever since his Nixonian tactics against the leader of the State Senate become public. He had the lowest approval ratings of any Democratic governor. No journalistic merit.