{"id":5281,"date":"2011-07-02T03:18:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T10:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5281"},"modified":"2011-07-02T03:18:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T10:18:44","slug":"was-straus-kahn-set-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/02\/was-straus-kahn-set-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Straus-Kahn Set Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Until now, I have stayed out of the controversy surrounding Dominique Straus-Kahn, prominent French Social Democrat and former IMF head.  Experience in volunteer work with prisoners has taught me that things are not always what they appear to be, and that both false defense claims of innocence and false prosecution claims of quilt are all too common.  As much as we may want to jump to a conclusion, wisdom dictates waiting, as new evidence now confirms.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"2Kahn\"Dominique Strauss-Kahn, whose indictment on sexual-assault charges reshaped French politics and touched off a global scramble to replace him as head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was released from house arrest Friday after prosecutors acknowledged serious problems in their case.<\/p>\n

In a hearing, New York Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon said her office no longer trusted the testimony of Strauss-Kahn’s accuser<\/strong>, a housekeeper at the Sofitel New York hotel who said Strauss-Kahn violently attacked her May 14.<\/p>\n

As the investigation proceeded in recent weeks, Illuzzi-Orbon said, there had been "salient, confirmed impeachment" of the woman’s story, from a concocted tale of political repression and gang rape in Guinea that was used to gain political asylum in the United States in 2004 to her shifting account of what happened May 14 in the $3,000-a-night suite<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said they still believe a "sexual encounter" occurred between the two, something "corroborated by forensic evidence" collected after Strauss-Kahn, 62, was arrested, Illuzzi-Orbon said in remarks submitted to the court.<\/p>\n

But the difficulty of supporting a rape charge without credible testimony from the woman involved led prosecutors to agree Strauss-Kahn should be released from the house arrest, electronic monitoring and armed guard that have governed his movements since he was indicted by a grand jury. His $1 million cash bail is being returned<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Seattle Times<\/a>><\/p>\n

When the prosecution gives back the bail money, that is not a good sign.<\/font><\/p>\n

Straus-Kahn was expected to overturn the Sarkozy regime in France and be a formidable counter to European conservatives responsible for Europe\u2019s disastrous austerity programs.  So very powerful people have a vested interest in removing Straus-Kahn from contention.  Since, in addition to a history of falsely claiming rape, the alleged victim also has strong underworld connections, the possibility of a Breitbart-like operation, with Sarkozy\u2019s fingerprints, is now a distinct possibility.<\/font><\/p>\n

Now I strongly oppose violence against women in all its forms, and I\u2019m not saying that Straus-Kahn is innocent.  I just think that assuming and publicizing guilt, in Nancy Grace fashion, is a very bad way to approach such matters.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Until now, I have stayed out of the controversy surrounding Dominique Straus-Kahn, prominent French Social Democrat and former IMF head.  Experience in volunteer work with prisoners has taught me that things are not always what they appear to be, and that both false defense claims of innocence and false prosecution claims of quilt are all […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}