Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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>>>I think the officer was correct, but I don't know why liberals would not be opposed to this kind of police entrapment.<<<


Entrapment??


"Undercover cop, Dave Karsnia, is sitting on the john in a bathroom stall looking for men using known signals asking for sex. Officer Karsnia writes in this police report, "I could see an older white male with gray hair outside my stall." That turned out to be Senator Craig. He said, "Senator Craig would look down at his hands, fidget with his fingers and look through the crack of my stall." He was able to see Craig's blue eyes as he looked into the stall. Then the officer says Craig entered the stall beside him and placed his roller bag against the front of the stall door. From the officer's seated position he could observe the senator's shoes and ankles. And then, according to the officer, Craig tapped his toes several times and moved his foot closer to the officer's. The officer says he moved his foot up and down slowly. He says the presence of others did not seem to deter Craig as he moved his right foot so that it touched the officer's left foot, which was within his stall area. Then the officer writes, "I saw Craig swipe his hand under the stall divider for a few seconds. I was only able to see his fingers on my side of the stall divider. I could also see Craig had a gold ring on his ring finger as his hand was on the stall divider. I held my police identification down by the floor so that Senator Craig could see it," and Craig then supposedly said, "No" as the officer moved to arrest him. Craig showed the officer his business card and said, "What do you think about that?

Now, all of that was in the police report. This is the plea agreement Craig signed admitting to his guilt. There are five things Senator Craig admits to. One, it says he has reviewed the arrest report. Number two says he understands the charges. And number five says, I now make no claim that I am innocent of the charge. In other words, he's guilty and Craig clearly signed it. So, Wolf, either he admitted guilt to what happened in that rest room or he perjured himself."

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0708/28/sitroom.03.html