Good thing Wiretapping is still legal.

[uppityperson]

I mean, just think, the prostitutes would've won. Think of all the terrorist prostitution meetings that have been broken up and avoided and all that. mrbush was Right! We need wiretapping to Keep us Safe!

What the bloody hell were they wiretapping this for?

[xchrom]

1. beats me -- when you consider this against the 9-11 terrorists they didn't catch.

[uppityperson]

3. Ah, but you see that was the fault of the Clenis, and the PATRIOT Act wasn't up and going yet

See, if they'd been able to wiretap anyone then, ya just never know.

And, because it is sometimes difficult to tell these days :sarcasm:

[xchrom]

5. ...

:spray: i had forgotten about the Clenis -- the root of all evil.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. I think you need to ask Spitzer, himself, that.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1721095,00.html

snip-

A wiretap allegedly recorded the setting up of a Washington, D.C., appointment between him and an Emperors Club "model." Spitzer may have made his name going after Wall Street gluttony, but he had a long history with criminal cases involving wiretaps, from his 1992 Gambino "mob tax" prosecution based on taped phone conversations to his 2004 calls for the FCC to let prosecutors tap internet phones and intercept text or picture messages on cell phones. Spitzer himself said that New York State does about 30% of the nation's wiretaps, and he helped make it a powerful weapon in the prosecutors' arsenal. If the charges are true, why would he think he was immune from such techniques? Another irony.

-snip

You know, it just is what it is and he screwed up big time and there's no other way it can be spun.

[uppityperson]

4. Why were they wiretapping a high class call girl place?

I know he screwed up, just trying to figure out why spend time, money, manpower wiretapping prostitutes, since this doesn't seem that important to me. And I know I'm odd.

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. No, it's better to ask than assume.

They were investigating the ring, from what has come out so far, and his name came up as client #9.

I would not have a problem with what he did in his spare time if he hadn't been so publicly disgusted and outraged while he was prosecuting two separate prostitution rings as AG. That's my problem. Not the sex. Hypocrisy will always be my problem. It is why I abhor the fake family values right. If it was just him, out on the town with a hooker, well that would be between him and his wife. It is his background and his "ethical" stances and his prosecuting of people for the very same crime that make him an ass in my book. And it pains me greatly to say that.


All of them, every single one of them, on both sides of the aisle need to cut this shit out. I'm done with it.

[Thepricebreaker]

8. I don't know? perhaps because its ILLEGAL?

[uppityperson]

9. Lots of things are ILLEGAL

[Thepricebreaker]

7. LOL Your kidding right? Wiretaps arent only used for Terrorists. LOL ROFL...

You can't be serious... The FBI can wiretap anything and everyone as long as they get the courts ok.

FBI and FISA are two different things....

[uppityperson]

10. Really? I thought they were just trying to Keep us Safe and stopping the Bad Guys from Hurting us.

Good thing we don't have to worry about these prostitutes now.

I wonder why they were wiretapping them? Was it the money?