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State Police Internal Investigation: How Did Gov. Spitzer Slip Security Leash? (plot thickens!)
ABC News ^ | 3/11/08 | RICHARD ESPOSITO

Posted on 03/11/2008 10:54:55 AM PDT by xtinct

In New York state, even as cabinet-level officials began to prepare an orderly transition by briefing Lt. Gov. David Paterson on key details of their components of the government in anticipation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer stepping down, criminal justice officials launched a preliminary inquiry into how the disgraced governor slipped his security detail while traveling, state sources told ABC News.

ABC News has learned that Spitzer routinely tried to push off the one or two state police officers who accompanied him out of town, suggesting to the troopers that they didn't need to accompany him as he went to the gym or telling them he was going to turn in early.

Currently, senior officials have asked the New York State Police to take a hard look to determine what, if anything, members of the security detail could or should have known. So far, it does not appear those troopers "looked the other way" and turned a blind eye to the governor's alleged trysts.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: client9; securitypolice; spitzer
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Dems trying to find someone else to blame???
1 posted on 03/11/2008 10:54:57 AM PDT by xtinct
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Musta gotten pointers from the Arkie State Patrol.


2 posted on 03/11/2008 10:57:58 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: xtinct

you know they looked the other way duh


3 posted on 03/11/2008 11:00:06 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: xtinct

so who left the hotel room door ajar for the hooker?


4 posted on 03/11/2008 11:01:58 AM PDT by RDTF (Go AEGIS!)
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To: xtinct

Sounds like the RATS hard at work to prove Spitzer didn’t do anything wrong just like the clintoon. Will mainstream media give him a pass after grounding various pubs into the dirt?


5 posted on 03/11/2008 11:02:39 AM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: yldstrk

How did Slick slip his Secret Service detail? Perhaps Eliott Mess got some advice from Slick.


6 posted on 03/11/2008 11:03:45 AM PDT by businessprofessor
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To: xtinct

I think that we will find that his security detail kept quiet because they got a “taste”.....


7 posted on 03/11/2008 11:07:15 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Tracking The "Flyin' Imams" Since 11/20/06)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

‘Musta gotten pointers from the Arkie State Patrol”

Not to mention tne Secret Service.


8 posted on 03/11/2008 11:08:02 AM PDT by dblshot
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To: xtinct

Reasons:

(1)Misplaced loyalty? Maybe they forget the law, they were sworn to uphold, should come before their loyalty to an individual or group.

(2)Another alternative, had their jobs because of political connections and are real screw-ups.

(3)Spitz is really smart and clever. Never mind, he’s a dumbocrat. He’s just cheeky.


9 posted on 03/11/2008 11:10:03 AM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (We have become an oligarchy not a Republic.)
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To: xtinct

Well....even Fox’s E.D.Hill is referring to *HIGH CLASS* hookers.

Just call them HIGH PRICED....but puhleeze no CLASS.

It’s all in the subliminal semantics...

sod;)


10 posted on 03/11/2008 11:10:29 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair - man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
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To: mewzilla

Weren’t you just mentioning his security ?? :)


11 posted on 03/11/2008 11:11:23 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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Just call them HIGH PRICED....but puhleeze no CLASS.

I don't agree. If she costs $4300 she ~d@mn~ well better be high class! :-)

Besides, everybody knows that hookers aren't really paid for the sex. They're paid to leave afterwards.

12 posted on 03/11/2008 11:15:19 AM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Musta gotten pointers from the Arkie State Patrol.

It is part of our Louisiana political legend that when Edwin Edwards was governor here in the mid 80's it was EWE who taught Clinton the technique. The Toon was Arkansas governor at the time.

13 posted on 03/11/2008 11:18:49 AM PDT by abb (Organized Journalism: Marxist-style collectivism applied to information sharing)
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To: A Strict Constructionist

Maybe he threatened and bullied his security guys just like he did everyone else.


14 posted on 03/11/2008 11:22:34 AM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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To: businessprofessor

When Ol’ Bubba has a massive MI and dies in bed with his latest bimbo, the Secret Service better be outside the bedroom door for damage control!!


15 posted on 03/11/2008 11:23:30 AM PDT by Polyxene (For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
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Besides, everybody knows that hookers aren't really paid for the sex. They're paid to leave afterwards.

LOL! Good one....

16 posted on 03/11/2008 11:28:09 AM PDT by BullDog108 (A Smith & Wesson beats four aces)
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Eliot Spitzer probably used public funds to commit and further a criminal act. His involvement with high end prostitutes is the least of his troubles now.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

17 posted on 03/11/2008 11:28:43 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Eliot Spitzer probably used public funds to commit and further a criminal act. His involvement with high end prostitutes is the least of his troubles now.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

18 posted on 03/11/2008 11:29:46 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Ramius

“Besides, everybody knows that hookers aren’t really paid for the sex. They’re paid to leave afterwards.”

LMAO!!!


19 posted on 03/11/2008 11:34:11 AM PDT by John Galt's cousin (I will write-in "Fred" in November.)
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To: A Strict Constructionist

I suspect they knew he was bedding a woman and cheating on his wife, which is nothing unusual in itself for political types (Clinton, Rudy, etc.). They very likely didn’t know that she was a paid companion and kept their mouths shut for that reason. Otherwise, it would an excellent opportunity for blackmail.


20 posted on 03/11/2008 11:36:35 AM PDT by CedarDave (FreeRepublic sidebar: Put your favorite topic or KeyWord on it to follow recent threads of interest)
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