You’ve got to be kidding (“Spitz in Their Face,” Sept. 4).
If the subject of an investigation can determine which evidence is appropriate for an authorized investigation to view, we’ve got a whole new topsy-turvy legal quandary.
Every drug dealer and other criminal will simply claim that he had a private conversation with someone, just by saying, “How’s your wife and kids? Now, about the other thing. . .” and claim the conversation or e-mail was really “peripheral.”
Then it will promptly disappear.
I’m not against Gov. Spitzer in any sense, but this is unacceptable – steamroller or not.
Steven Wolosker
Manhattan
Private e-mails, my foot. E-mail written by public officials, on the public’s time and on public computers, is the property of the public.
We pay an arm and a leg for these self-centered buffoons to take care of the affairs of the state.
If the governor has nothing to hide, then he should make the e-mails public. But, if he has something to hide, he should stonewall all investigations in order to keep them private – just as he’s been doing so far.
Elio Valenti
Brooklyn