“Public Integrity” Commission Finally Releases its Troopergate Report
Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Occam
The “Public Integrity” Commission finally released its report regarding the whole Troopergate scandal. As I recently reported, a member of the Commission was secretly passing crucial information about the investigation to the Spitzer administration while the investigation was still ongoing. But that’s just the everyday “reform politics” of the democratic party.
The reason for today’s post is to provide some highlights from the report. Here are my favorites:
- The evidence “supports a reasonable belief that these Spitzer Administration officials caused the State Police to serve the Governor’s and their own non-governmental interests in a manner that compromised the State Police. Finally, there is reasonable cause to believe that in doing so, these Spitzer Administration officials misused their official positions to cause the State Police to engage in conduct that was wholly unrelated to the State Police’s statutory mandate of ‘detect[ing] and prevent[ing] crime.’”
- “The Commission recognizes that elected officials and their staffs routinely take steps to reveal to the press negative or embarrassing information about their opponents. Such conduct, by itself, does not violate the Public Officers Law. But here, senior Sptizer Administration officials did more than seek to generate a negative news story about the Governor’s political opponent. Rather…the State Police were enlisted in an effort to gather and publicize sensitive information about Senator Bruno’s travel. In doing so, Sptizer Administration officials caused the State Police to contravene longstanding State Police procedures governing the disclosure of such travel information.”
- During the investigation, “the Commission was forced to overcome numerous improper obstacles placed by the Executive Chamber.”
- “The Executive Chamber’s piecemeal document production and its spurious claims of privilege unnecessarily and improperly delayed the Commission’s investigation by many months. The Executive Chamber’s actions were flatly at odds with its duty to assist this Commission’s investigation and promises of Governor Spitzer that his Administration was cooperating fully with the Commission’s investigation.”
Way to go, reformers! I didn’t realize that siccing the State Police on your enemies was “reform,” but then again, I’m not a democrat.
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C’mon Occam!
You mean to tell me that republicans never wanted to sic the police on their opponents?
That makes this whole thing ok.
Dems do it = ok
Reps think about wanting to do it too = makes it ok that the dems did it.
It’s a new kinda Day One reform for the liberal radical Spitzerites.