Posted on 05/06/2009 5:32:08 AM PDT by bestintxas
The federal government has asked an appeals court to reverse a ruling ordering the public release of sealed documents in the prostitution probe that led to the resignation of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
Government lawyers filed papers Tuesday with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals arguing a judge was wrong to order the release of wiretap materials in the criminal case that ousted Spitzer.
The government says the materials haven't been among court documents routinely made available to the public. It says Congress intended for the documents usually to remain secret. The New York Times had sought the documents on First Amendment grounds. Times lawyer David McCraw has no immediate comment.
Spitzer resigned in March 2008 after being identified as a client of an upscale escort service.
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What does Rahm Emmanuel have to do with it?
Yeah, what Krankor said? What’s this got to do with the dead fish? His name or position isn’t even referred to in the story. You have inside knowledge?
Nope - thought it was on the wiretaps of Blago instead of Spitzer.
My mistake
Ask the Admin Mod to edit the headline.
Oh. Well, I guess I can understand that... with so many sleazy corrupt Democrats and criminal case swirling about, they all become one slimy disgusting amalgum of criminal mischief.
“My mistake”
I don’t think you made a mistake at all: Rahm is as sleazy as they come, but he’s also smart as a whip. I wouldn’t put it past him to be 2 steps ahead of everyone else in thinking about this. After all, consider the precedent they were seeking to maintain:
“The government says the materials haven’t been among court documents routinely made available to the public.”
If the court were to release the wiretaps in this case, this would establish an important precedent that would make it harder to justify why the wiretaps shouldn’t be released in the Blago case as well. And I agree with you that if they were, Rahm would have some serious “splainin’” to do.
Good scrutiny of unintended news on my part.
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