Seems more people than not are afraid of what he will do to them politically. He should have been put under oath months ago and this put to bed. I think most people have already forgotten about it.

Who’s afraid of Eliot Spitzer?

All the important people in Albany charged with getting the truth about Troopergate are afraid of Gov. Spitzer. Bogging themselves down in by-the-book procedures and hiding behind excessive secrecy and selected leaks, the Albany district attorney and the Public Integrity Commission are turning a fairly straightforward case into an endless mystery.

Even Gov. Spitzer himself claims to be eager to tell all under oath, if only someone would invite him to do so. “I’d love to. Wish I had when this first came up,” he recently told The New Yorker magazine.

Think of the irony. The state’s top elected official says he wants to give the public what it wants - his testimony - but he can’t. And why can’t he? Neither the district attorney nor the integrity commission can even tell us that. Secrecy and privacy and procedures and rules and blah blah blah.

Meanwhile, a huge cloud hangs over the administration. The attempt by aides in Spitzer’s office to use the state police to smear Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno has poisoned all relationships in Albany. Nothing has gotten done since July, nor should it until we know what Spitzer’s role was. The case is that important.

But instead of acknowledging that obvious fact, the probers proceed as though they’ve got a run-of-the mill case on overtime padding or r?sum? fibs.

We could assume they’re oblivious to the seriousness of the case. Or we could conclude they are afraid of what they will find if they really dig into the case. I vote for the latter.

After all, their approach is not neutral - it helps Spitzer if he’s really got something to hide. The longer it goes on, the greater the chance the public will lose interest.
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