He just got called a "conspiracy theorist" for proposing that Spitzer was set up. ("That bitch set me up!" --Marion Barry) What nobody seems to be talking about is that as opposed to most who've gotten caught with their pants, well, maybe without their pants off (Clinton, Gringrich, Kennedy, Larry Craig, et al.), Elliot paid for it. And not just a casual indiscretion, but a well planned out and creatively funded (illegally and, apparently, the reason he was found out) tryst. Most importantly, and like the others, for me it's not about the vice, it's about the recklessness of a public official who's aware of the potential consequences--especially a Mr. Goody-two-shoes prosecutor who hasn't hesitated to wax holier-than-thou before--it's just plain stupid. (Further, it probably betrays a certain unconscious desire--sorry, but this is my bread and butter--to get caught.) Cover your ass. That's part of a job, of his job. And if you fuck up and get caught, you're fired.
"What comes around, goes around," Dershowitz finally admits.
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