Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Eliot Spitzer Second-Day Story

Glenn Greenwald at Salon puts the right questions out there. It's short enough that I won't summarize, just highly recommend.

As in:
Sometimes, people force women against their will to work as prostitutes. Therefore, we should outlaw all prostitution (rather than just outlaw forced prostitution and human trafficking)


What say you, women of a certain age?

N.B.
It isn't clear why the FBI sought the wiretap warrant. Federal prostitution probes are exceedingly rare, lawyers say, except in cases involving organized-crime leaders or child abuse. Federal wiretaps are seldom used to make these cases; search warrants usually suffice. Wiretap applications generally are reserved for serious crimes, such as drug, weapons and terrorism-related cases. There typically are no more than 1,400 wiretaps in use nationwide at any given time.

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