The Gadfly is somewhat baffled as to what exactly it was that Chris Christie believed he was accomplishing by so swiftly and nonchalantly throwing his aides under the bus in the NJ bridge closing scandal. For as we are now seeing - with the subpoenas flying left and right and the targets of those subpoenas rushing to lawyer up - it looks like Governor Big Chicken is a dead man walking:
A former top aide to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) says that the governor was aware of the lane closings on the George Washington Bridge and claimed that “he had the evidence to prove it,” the New York Times reports. Christie has repeatedly denied having any knowledge of his administration’s involvement in the closures before incriminating emails surfaced in early January.
Former Port Authority official David Wildstein — the former director of interstate capital projects — said in a letter released by his lawyer that the Christie administration ordered the closure of the traffic lanes and said “evidence exists as well tying Mr. Christie to having knowledge of the lane closures, during the period when the lanes were closed, contrary to what the governor stated publicly in a two-hour press conference” three weeks ago.
“Mr. Wildstein contests the accuracy of various statements that the governor made about him and he can prove the inaccuracy of some,” the letter added. The letter is sent from the law offices of Alan L. Zegas to the general counsel at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey challenging the Authority’s decision not to pay the former official’s legal bills.
http://thinkprogress.org/home/2014/01/31/3236191/christie-aide-says-governor-aware-lane-closures/
Yikes! That ear-piercing hissing sound you hear dear readers is the hot, steamy air escaping from the gaping and jagged hole that has been torn open in the external skin of the Airship SS Christie. And by all accounts it appears that a crash landing impact with the earth (and Karma) isn't very far off in the future.
----TFG
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