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NY: Troopergate Records Show Sloppy Work Done

An official mess indeed.  This whole episode, and the call girl bit, all speak for themselves. From the Buffalo News:

Through 9,000 pages of testimony, e-mails and other documents detailing the Capitol scandal known as Troopergate, a portrait emerges of the former Spitzer administration’s sloppy attempt to discredit a political enemy — and an even messier bid to deal with the political fallout.

Records released Tuesday by the Albany County district attorney’s office in its two Troopergate investigations depict the administration of former Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer beset by infighting, faulty memories, finger-pointing, regrets and page after page of seeming paranoia about how the scandal eventually got out of its control.

While the documents provide tantalizing details of the inner workings of the administration’s attempt to smear former Senate majority leader Joseph Bruno, the whole affair seems to have been captured in the testimony of one of Spitzer’s top lawyers.

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