Client 9, Film Review

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1638362/

This two-hour film is well produced with great interviews of major players in the scandal of New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer in 2006, which led to his resignation. It shows events when Spitzer was New York State Attorney General investigating Wall Street investment firms. What is striking is the similarity to what is now happening to David Petraeus, who resigned from the directorship of the CIA after a brilliant military career. The pattern of media campaigns instead of legal process attacking prominent leaders, began with Richard Nixon who was hounded from office by a relentless media campaign. Thirty-eight years later American voters remain clueless about how vigorously they are misled by journalists. It has only gotten worse. The Watergate scandal was about a third rate burglary of the
Democratic National Committee Headquarters during the Presidential campaign in June 1972. Campaign strategy and candidate information was kept at the campaign headquarters, not the DNC. The President did not know about the burglary and had no role in it. He became involved in a cover-up that brought down his Presidency. No one died in Watergate. But at least two clumsy reporters made their careers revealing what a disgruntled FBI agent revealed to them about the FBI's investigation. Mark Felt wanted to be FBI Director but was passed over by Nixon. He

abused his power, sharing FBI information with the two Washington Post reporters. They made it appear that they were doing investigations when they were only reporting what Felt told them. It is mind boggling what deceptions are now accepted as history. Hitler's PR man, Josef Goebbels, was correct that lies repeated often enough, become accepted as truth.

In 2012 we have a misguided administration led by a man with no experience other than fooling his academic colleagues. Obama admitted he was clueless about getting anything done in Washington DC. That made him a preferred candidate. Roger Morris explains in his book about the Clintons, Partners in Power, that establishment criminals, who use government mechanisms to steal taxpayer funds, prefer weak, spineless candidates with relaxed rectitude. They will go along to get along. That applies to most CEOs, law enforcement agency chiefs, and especially to politicians. It is not complete yet but that is the trend and most leadership positions fit that profile.

Shortly after the 2012 election, US Army General, David Petraeus, who was CIA Director, was exposed as having had an affair with a married woman who wrote his biography. They both graduated from West Point. This affair was discovered by an FBI agent who was allegedly investigating "threatening" emails from the biographer to another married woman who was an acquaintance of Petraeus. The FBI and the Department of Justice allegedly knew about this investigation since May 2012.

It was unknown to voters on September 11, 2012 after the terror attack on the Benghazi, Libya  consulate. The US Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens was murdered along with three other US employees, two Navy Seals. The US Ambassador to the UN appeared on five TV news shows on September 16, 2012 explaining that the attacks were a result of a lame amateur film about Islam in California. The producer, an Egyptian Coptic Christian, was on probation. US Officials jailed him for a year for violating his parole. It appears that the CIA in Libya knew immediately that it was a terror attack. On November 16, 2012, Gen. Petraeus testified before Congress that the CIA knew immediately it was a terror attack. During the 2012 campaign "debates" Obama said he knew what it was and said so. CBS released footage showing that Obama did not call it a terror attack when he appeared on their news programs.

On November 15, 2012 Obama said it was unfair to focus on the misleading statements by Susan Rice, the UN Ambassador. He said journalists and Republicans should blame him. Pat Buchanan asked, "Who told her to say it was a lame film that caused 'protests' not a terror attack." Even on November 16, 2012, Rush Limbaugh continued the discussion of who said what when.

How this is related to the Spitzer film, Client 9,  is that there was a major criminal event preceding the resignation. But it was not committed by the target of FBI abuse. Four Americans were murdered in September 2012 at a consulate in Libya. Little concern from journalists who were likely protecting Obama's campaign. Then the CIA director was accused of adultery and resigned from his position. In Spitzer's case he was in his first year as Governor of New York, after 8 years as Attorney General. He was trying to "clean up" (in his view) state government as he tried to clean up the criminal activity on Wall Street. This was two years before the major collapse of the US economy. Some of the players in the Spitzer affair, first as target of Spitzer as Attorney General of New York,  then as leaders in the wild abuses of the investment banks, appear in this film with curious knowledge of what Spitzer was doing.

Spitzer, like Nixon was not accused of a major crime. He was accused of, but not prosecuted for, hiring prostitutes. Later he was accused of using the New York State police to investigate Joe Bruno, New York State Senate President. That investigation revealed criminal abuses by the state police leadership. But that was not what began the investigation of Spitzer. Likewise for Petraeus. He was accused of a moral crime. That is the pattern that Obama uses in his campaigns. He used salacious rumors to discredit his opponents. Getting rid of Spitzer allowed the Wall Street crime families to resume their abuses and exploitation of small investors. What the Spitzer affair, Watergate and the Petraeus affair all share is questionable FBI activity investigating matters over which they likely did not have jurisdiction.