I missed this on Friday because I was busy with work, but the US Attorney in New Jersey has convened a grand jury to investigate Governor Christie’s involvement.
“The convening of the grand jury is evidence that the U.S. Attorney’s investigation has progressed beyond an inquiry and moved to the criminal phase.” Newark Star Ledger: “Legal experts say the hearing of grand-jury testimony is an important development that means U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman has accumulated enough evidence to move past a preliminary inquiry into the controversial lane closings and into a grand jury investigation of them.”
Indeed. If there wasn’t something there, there would be no grand jury investigation. Another question: why did Chris Christie’s administration trash
Bridgett Kelly in their “independent” report? She seems to be a key player in all of this, and could sink Christie if there really is something there there. It seems stupid to antagonize her.
Well, the trashing of Kelly and the convening of the Grand Jury tells me that Kelly has flipped and is providing state’s evidence. So now Christie et al are trashing her credibility.
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“If he doesn’t think that was torture, I would invite him anywhere in the United States to sit in a waterboard and go through what those people went through, one of them 100-plus-odd times.” – Sen. Angus King (I-ME), in an interview on MSNBC, on Vice President Cheney defending the “enhanced interrogation techniques” used by the CIA under the Bush administration.
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GEORGIA–GOVERNOR–Landmark/Rosetta Stone: Gov. Nathan Deal (R) 43, Jason Carter (D) 39, with 18% undecided.
PENNSYLVANIA–GOVERNOR–DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY–Franklin & Marshall: Tom Wolf 33, Rep. Allyson Schwartz 7, Other candidates 10, Undecided 46.
LOUISIANA–US SENATE–Magellan Strategies (R): Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) 39, Rep. Bill Cassidy (R) 26. Louisiana holds its open primary election on the date of the general election everywhere else for reasons passing understanding. There are several other Republican candidates running besides Cassidy, but they are all “in the low single digits.”