[movie]Client 9

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[movie]Client 9

Post by Jun » 2010-11-12 8:08

http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movie ... eview.html

New documentary movie out on Eliot Spitzer. Above is Ann Hornaday's review.
By now, his vertiginous free fall is well known. But in the absorbing documentary "Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer," filmmaker Alex Gibney makes a persuasive case that Spitzer's professional demise wasn't just the product of his own self-destruction, but was facilitated by the powerful corporate and political enemies he made during his years in public office.
If Gibney can't entirely prove that Greenberg, Langone, Bruno and their cohorts engineered Spitzer's destruction, he connects some fascinating dots between them and raises provocative questions relating to how and why the FBI came to investigate Spitzer. What was behind the Bush Justice Department's decision to devote such lavish resources on a small call-girl ring instead of focusing on their usual targets of terrorists, mobsters and white-collar criminals? Did Stone's lawyer really write a letter to the FBI laying out the details of Spitzer's assignations with prostitutes, even though the feds deny receiving such correspondence? And here's a thought experiment: Why is Spitzer relegated to the political wilderness of cable commentary when David Vitter, who was caught doing the exact same thing, not only didn't resign but just got reelected to the U.S. Senate?
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