Spitzer targeted?

Below is a great entry on the Spitzer mess, posted on my favorite blog. I heard Alan Dershowitz saying similar stuff on NPR this afternoon - he was even more forceful in suggesting this stinks to high heaven:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88106707


http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/

Mann-date
by digby

To those of you who are in high dudgeon over Spitzer possibly violating the Mann Act --- please. The Mann Act is bullshit in a situation where the parties were consensual. Here's Wikipedia's history of the Mann Act. It's often been used for political purposes.

Obviously Spitzer's in big trouble and is very likely to resign. When you build your career as a self righteous crusader, you don't get the benefit of the doubt on stuff like this. But there are questions that should be asked. It is unusual to release the names of johns and it's weird that we still don't know why the feds were wiretapping on some seemingly inconsequential prostitution case in the first place. Is that something the feds spend a lot of time doing these days?

Far be it for me to mistrust the Bush Justice department or think they might have partisan motives, but it might be worth asking whether there might be a little partisan prosecutorial hanky panky involved. It certainly wouldn't be the first time.