[ValerieUSA]

NewsChannel 5 has learned he was the target of a TBI investigation for allegedly making harassing phone calls to a fellow lawmaker and his wife. Representative Zane Whitson wouldn't talk on camera, but confirmed he asked the TBI for help. Agents tracked the calls, some sexual in nature, to Westmoreland.
The agents themselves should have pursued the case, too, it's their duty to serve the people, not lick the boots of lawmakers. Whitson never pressed charges.

As a lawmaker, Whitson owed it to Tennessee to press charges, and not let himself or another lawmaker be set safely away from the reach of the law.

[ValerieUSA]

Oops, this was my comment, not part of the article: "The agents themselves should have pursued the case, too, it's their duty to serve the people, not lick the boots of lawmakers."

[vanna516]

Zane Whitson is also a Republican that voted FOR the income tax (curious).

Don't know how much you know about the TBI but they really don't have a stellar record as far as "catching criminals." There have been allegations on talk radio, etc., that the TBI is a good incriminating evidence collector. As best that I can remember and I may be mistaken but one of the higher ups in the TBI is (now maybe was) a BIG buddy of the Gores.