Post by dgriffin on Nov 13, 2010 17:40:35 GMT -5
Client 9": How Spitzer Fell (or Was Pushed)
Documentary Filmmaker Alex Gibney on the Ex-N.Y. Gov's Sex Scandal, and the Whiffs of Conspiracy Surrounding His Fall
(CBS) "It's a hard film to boil down," said director Alex Gibney of his new documentary on the very public fall from grace of New York's former governor who was outed for having used the services of call girls.
But the narrative of "Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer" is anything but straightforward, and its tawdriness is not limited to the pay-for-sex sense.
The film presents unsettling questions surrounding the case which exploded in March 2008 when Spitzer was named in The New York Times as having been a customer of the Emperors Club VIP escort service.
For example:
Why was the FBI - which never investigates escort services - devoting considerable manpower and resources to tapping the phones of the Emperors Club? And why were details about its girls leaked to reporters, including their real names and home and work phone numbers?
Why was Spitzer the only client pursued by the feds for being a john, when other public figures (such as Louisiana's Republican Senator David Vitter, caught texting the D.C. Madam from the Senate Chamber) have gone untouched?
How did a notorious GOP dirty trickster learn about Spitzer's proclivities and allegedly inform the Justice Department, in a letter the feds say they never received?
Why did one of the many powerful enemies Spitzer had made during his investigation of Wall Street corruption admit to a CNBC reporter, when news of Spitzer's outing broke, that he already knew about it, and boasted that a witness had informed him of details?
It's all enough to make even the most un-conspiracy-minded go hmmmmmm. . . .
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www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/13/entertainment/main7051609.shtml
So, what is this .. the rehabilitation of Spitzer's image and career? Who cares if his enemies were out to get him? These are big boys and they are supposed to know how to play the game.