Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times
Kristine Hamann, the inspector general, in her office on Monday. She said she had taken her inquiry as far as she could.
Does she work for the state or Spitzer?
Posted on 09/07/2007 1:43:49 AM PDT by neverdem
ALBANY, Sept. 6 — Senate Republicans grilled the state inspector general, Kristine Hamann, during a public hearing Thursday, and suggested that she faltered in her investigation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s administration and lacked candor.
Ms. Hamann, an experienced prosecutor, defended her handling of her inquiry, and a law professor called by Republican senators did not dispute her contention on a key issue: that she did not have clear standing to confer subpoena-issuing powers to Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, who was conducting his own inquiry.
Ms. Hamann also said she opposed Senate legislation that would compel her to refer future cases to the attorney general when there are allegations of wrongdoing by the governor’s staff or when she determines she has a conflict. The proposal, she said, would undermine her role as the governor’s internal watchdog.
The hearing, by the Senate Committee on Investigations and Government Operations, included verbal jousting between the Republicans and Democrats on the panel. It was the latest aftereffect of the report issued by Mr. Cuomo’s office in July, which found that the administration had misused the State Police in an effort to discredit Joseph L. Bruno, the Senate majority leader and top Republican in the state.
Ms. Hamann’s answers did little to satisfy Republicans.
“I was disappointed she wasn’t more forthcoming,” said Senator George H. Winner Jr., the Elmira Republican who is chairman of the committee. In comments afterward, he added that he felt the inspector general, an appointee of the governor’s, “really didn’t undertake any investigation.”...
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Does she work for the state or Spitzer?
Lying.
Socialist.
Redundant.
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useless grandstanding by the GOP, they should know by now that Democrats are not held accountable
“The proposal, she said, would undermine her role as the governor’s internal watchdog.”
Seems like she’s already failed at that.
New York State legislature, government is a big laugh. Sorry that the joke is on US.
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