2) From postings on homosexual websites, it was well-known that the bathroom in question was the one homosexuals at the Minneapolis airport used for casual sex in a public place.
3) After entering the men's room, Craig cruised one of the stalls by peering through the crack at its door jam, while he waited 13 minutes to occupy the particular stall adjacent to it.
4) Craig then used all the agreed-upon homosexual "signals" for soliciting sex. The odds of somebody doing this by chance are nil.
5) During this time, Craig's hand and foot crossed the divider between the two stalls repeatedly, making physical contact with the undercover cop's foot at one point.
6) Craig's reaction and subsequent utterances at the time of arrest strongly suggest that he knew exactly why he was being arrested and exactly what signalling behavior he needed to deny or rationalize.
7) After failing to intimidate the arresting officer with his senatorial status, he did not retain legal counsel, he let it be known that he would not put up a court fight and gave every indication that he just wanted the matter over with -- quickly, cleanly and above all, quietly.
8) By dropping the more serious charge, the prosecutor's office made it very easy for Craig to follow through with his plea arrangement, paying the $575 fine and accepting the one year unsupervised probation in lieu of $1,000 fine and one year of incarceration.
9) More than two months later, when the Roll Call whistle blew, Craig had still not informed his wife, his lawyer, his colleagues or his staff of any of this.
10) Considered in its totality, the pattern of Craig's behavior from start to finish is that of a man intent on soliciting others to commit overt sexual acts in a public place. It was not the behavior a reasonable person would expect of somebody who was innocently using a public bathroom for its intended purpose.
It was Craig's ill fortune that a sting was in progress when he entered that men's room. It was his good fortune that both the arresting officer and the prosecutor were inclined toward leniency in exchange for a plea arrangement.
In the end, Craig has shown himself to be a blockhead.
Craig’s career joined him in that stall.
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Remember also what happened in 1982. In no time after one of the male pages claimed to have had sex with a couple of unnamed Congressman, Craig held a presser to deny he was one of them. Even though no one had claimed he was.
In retrospect, I have to wonder if that wasn’t a man who protested too much.