I’m a bit tired tonight and I don’t have anything profound to say. I see that some folks ran a pretty sophisticated covert operation on Sen. Bob Menendez. It’s somewhere between what we’d expect the CIA to do, although you would hope with more success, and a James O’Keefe special gone wrong. And Tucker Carlson was in on the game.
An escort who appeared on a video claiming Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) paid her for sex has told Dominican Republic police that she was instead paid to make up the claims in a tape recording and has never met or seen the senator before, according to court documents and two people briefed on her claim.
The woman identified a lawyer who approached her and a friend to make the videotape, according to affidavits obtained by the Post. That man has in turn identified another lawyer who gave him a script for the tape and paid him to find women to fabricate the claims, the affidavits say.
The escort was one of two women who taped videos that seems to support a tipster’s allegations that Menendez had patronized prostitutes while vacationing in the Dominican Republic.
FBI agents conducting interviews in the Dominican Republic have found no evidence to back up the tipster’s allegations, according to two people briefed on their work.
Menendez has denied the prostitution claims and called them entirely false “smears” used by enemies to try to defeat him in his recent re-election campaign and his selection as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee…
…The women’s videotaped claims, with their faces obscured, were played on the conservative Web site The Daily Caller. The news site reported that “the two women said they met Menendez around Easter at Casa de Campo, an expensive 7,000-acre resort in the Dominican Republic…They claimed Menendez agreed to pay them $500 for sex acts, but in the end they each received only $100.”
But in an affidavit obtained Monday, one of the women on the tape, who describes herself as an escort, said she and a colleague were offered money by a lawyer to read from a script. The woman said she was surreptitiously videotaped implicating Menendez and Melgen.
I’d check to see if James O’Keefe traveled to the Dominican Republic in the pertinent time frame. But this looks like part of a broader conspiracy.
I could give you some good conspiracy stuff but, again, I am tuckered out.
If I were Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy, I’d treat this like the second coming of Watergate. Or Benghazi!!!!!
Also, too, why is the FBI investigating whether or not a senator broke a law in the Dominican Republic? Are we now subject to prosecution in the United States for crimes we commit on vacation in foreign countries?
