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Why is the FBI making it a priority to go after guys who patronize call girls? Isn't that a matter for the local police?
The FBI and DOJ as a whole have, since W came into power, inappropriately focused federal money and might on enforcing laws against things like dirty magazines and prostitution. Don't they have enough terrorists, gangsters, embezzlers, and pedophiles to keep them occupied? It's one thing for the FBI to go after the proprietors of the operation--but the clients?
If Spitzer should resign, it's only because what should be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine, will be blown up into a felony indictment--a distraction that will make it hard for him to govern. What he did was illegal and showed bad judgment (aside from the moral issue). But it just seems to me that it's a bit ridiulous to make it--literally--a federal case. Who will benefit from the removal of a competent and effective public servant? Certainly not the citizens of New York.
