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(Note: I had video of this, but it's not working for some reason. I'll try and get it up ASAP.)
On MSNBC today, Norah O'Donnell spoke with Alan Dershowitz, who knows Eliot Spitzer very well. Here's what he had to say.
"Because when men think with an organ other than their brain, no matter how smart you are, they tend to do very, very, very stupid things. Whether it's Bill Clinton or Thomas Jefferson or Franklin Roosevelt or John Kennedy or Lyndon Johnson. These are all people who greatly governed during the day and at night, behaved like adolescent boys. The point is sophisticated people in mature countries understand that you distinguish between personal problems that are family matters and matters of governance..."
In addition, this is what Dershowitz said about the case.
"I don't believe that story. I know it was in the New York Times but I will bet you anything when this becomes more investigated, we will find that this is a cover story. I know a lot about banking laws. I have represented a lot of people who have been involved in money laundering and structuring. This case smells. I believe that somebody must have dropped a dime on him and they started looking at his records..."
He continued:
"But I do not believe the cover story that appeared in the New York Times. I think that's a story that was put out by federal officials to cover what really went on here. The banks simply don't go around accidentally finding transactions of $15,000. What banks look for are $25 million being sent to the Caymans or structured deposits, money laundered money. This just didn't happen by happenstance. Somebody was looking at Eliot Spitzer."
That is an interesting assessment. I hope we hear more of this kind of talk in the future. This is too suspicious. Why Spitzer, and why now?
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