Re: Eliot Spitzer, antismoking leader, self-destructs

"tim" <TimJ@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:27:02 -0500, Michael Mattias wrote:
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>> "Robert" <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Zero tolerance, no compromise, no mercy.
>>>
>>> Bye bye, hypocrite.
>>
>> Well, he *has* been working tirelessly for twenty-plus years to keep
his
>> name at the center of public attention....
>
> This saga prompts a thought...

> With the massive expansion of monitoring of emails, financial
> transactions, credit card records, phone calls, Internet accesses and s
> forth by the government since the 9/11 attack, there must
> be a huge amount of material available to the administration.
>
> They could then use that material to pressure all sorts of people to do
> their bidding...

When you brought up the late Mr. Hoover a little later in your title I was

reminded of a story about the President often associated with him, Lyndon 
Johnson. Johnson once 'leaked' a news story that Hoover was about to be 
fired, allowed the paper print it, then later that day announced Hoover 
would be director essentially forever. (later coarsely suggesting the 
newpaper engage in an intimate act with itself).

Anyway,  the point is you don't really need a lot of do***entation to 
'influence' others...

When LBJ was Senate majority leader, a member of his party was in a tough 
re-election campaign and came to Johnson for advice. After reviewing the 
campaign and the numbers, Johnson said, "What you have to do is leak to
the 
newpapers that your opponent is cheating on his wife."

The candidate quickly protested: "But sir, we have no evidence he's doing 
that; we could never prove it."

Johnson replied, "Hell, you don't have to prove it;  you just have to get 
him denying it on the record!"

MCM







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