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Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Christie Watch

HuffPo: John Wisniewski May Subpoena Chris Christie Bridgegate Documents

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

From Scott Raab, at Esquire:

"So it seems that the exhaustive and comprehensive Christie Report, featuring five -- count em! FIVE! -- former federal prosecutors gifted with complete and unfettered access to everyone, including Chris Christie, who had no connection whatsoever to the Great Fort Lee Clusterfk beyond their shared faith in traffic studies, well, it seems that the authors of the Christie Report, in the course of exonerating and vindicating the Governor, preferred not to record any of their interviews.

The co-chair of the New Jersey legislature's special investigative committee said yesterday that the Christie Report investigators made interview notes. That's it. That's the entire record: interview notes. Seventy witnesses, none under oath -- no stenographer, no recording device of any kind, and, of course, no transcripts. Forget about any Nixonian 17-minute gap in the tapes. There are no tapes, only the notes written up by the investigators themselves.

Sure, for $650 per hour, the New Jersey taxpayers who paid for the report deserve standard documentation, but you still have to gape at the size of the balls on these guys. Not that they had any good choices -- both the legislative committee and the U.S. Attorney's office, conducting its separate investigation, are entitled to look at all evidence the Christie Report used to reach its findings, and anything its witnesses said could and would have been used against them -- which is exactly why those former federal prosecutors chose to produce as little real evidence as possible, which turns out to be not one word directly spoken by any witness. This isn't a strategy devised to search for truth. The goal here is to avoid the risk of perjury.

If there were any actual evidence to support the claim that Christie and his thugs were truly sandbagged at Fort Lee by David Wildstein and Bridget Kelly, and kept in the dark about it month after month, the Christie Report would have long since had that shit laminated and nailed into the scalp of every journalist in the land. Instead, it helps prove the obvious: Smoke and mirrors and balls are all that Christie and his thugs have left."

Jim Sande said...

Thanks anon. that's a good read and it goes right to the suspicion we've had about the so called report. I think the GOP is turning it's head towards Jeb now.