Spitzer's Surprise Sex Scandal

Gov Spitzer.

What can I say?

A Democrat, Governor, caught up in a Sex Scandal.


I can't recall anything like this ever happening before.

Problems I have with this story: IRS, FBI undercover surveillance video and Federal Wiretaps.

Republicans in Albany are threatening to impeach. I'm sure they'll have no trouble with that.

Meanwhile, Spitzer is just twisting in the wind.Leaving all the important questions unanswered. Will he resign? Will he be impeached? He reported asked the girls “to do things that, like, you might not think were safe.” What things? The world needs to know. Call Woodward and Bernstein, we simply must know what those things are.

Becoming an elected official must require some sort of mini lobotomy, particularly in the inhibition area of the brain. The higher the office the bigger the chunk of brain removed. Governor is a pretty high office.

“I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong,” the governor said. “I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public to whom I promised better.

“I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself. I must now dedicate some time to regain the trust of my family.”
NyTimes

I'm so disillusioned, next you'll be telling me that sweet little girl from Gilligans Island, Mary Ann smokes Mary Jane.

Worst of all, Spitzer is a SuperDelegate. On Hillary's side. If he resigns, she loses him and he will not be replaced. So she has no choice but to support him and get him to stay in office. Not a popular position.

For every one else, not running for President and not living in New York, the whole story is great theater. Click on the T-Shirt to get your Spitzer Scandal Souvenirs from a timely and clever entrepreneur.

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WikiLeaks uncensored.

Thanks in no small part to the efforts of The EFF and others, the honorable District Judge Jeffrey S. White has withdrew an earlier order blocking the wikileaks.org domain name resolution.

“There are serious concerns that the court has, and serious questions raised, about the effectiveness of any order that this court might issue given the current state of affairs,” Judge White said, lamenting the fact that constitutional law might not be able to keep up with technological change.
NYTimes

Yeah, censorship is hard. I feel for you. I mean, how are we supposed to hide tax evasion now.


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WikiLeaks Censored ... sort of

The New York Times and others are reporting on a Federal Judge's order to force Dynadot from resolving the wikileaks.org domain name and block anyone from transferring the registrar.

On Friday, Judge Jeffrey S. White of the Federal District Court in San Francisco granted a permanent injunction ordering Dynadot of San Mateo, Calif., the site’s domain name registrar, to disable the Wikileaks.org domain name. The order had the effect of locking the front door to the Wikileaks.org site — a largely ineffectual action that kept back doors to the site, and several copies of it, available to sophisticated Web users who knew where to look.
NYtimes

Wikileaks can still be accessed through several mirrors as well as its Ip address @ http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks

Legal experts thankfully are stating just how ridiculous this order is.

Judge White’s order disabling the entire site “is clearly not constitutional,” said David Ardia, the director of the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard Law School. “There is no justification under the First Amendment for shutting down an entire Web site.” NYTimes

"This is akin to seizing all the copies of the New York Times, locking the doors and ordering the landlords not to let anyone back in the building," said Julie Turner, a Palo Alto Internet attorney who briefly represented Wikileaks, but not during last week's hearing in front of White. Wikileaks was not represented at that hearing.
Associated Press

Then there are a minority who say this case is not about censorship.

While many weblog postings about the Wikileaks case have been quick to claim that government-backed Web censorship is taking place, the possibility that trade secrets may be involved or that laws may have been broken by leaking the documents do complicate matters significantly, said Bart Lazar, a partner with the law firm of Seyfarth Shaw.

"There is a difference between stating your opinion and illegally posting trade secret information," Lazar told LinuxInsider. "If the information is truly a trade secret, namely it is the subject of reasonable efforts to protect and has value by reason of it being a trade secret, and the trade secret was, in fact, misappropriated, the likelihood is that the case and injunction should be upheld."
Linux Insider

You can check the documents yourself . They are all over the web, proving just how effective the order is. It appears the trade secrets involve hiding assets, tax evasion and using private investigators to harass whistle blowers. Certainly we must protect these all important trade secrets.

Read the judge's Full order (pdf)

Here's hoping for a quick appeal and reversal.



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