CBS: Documents show Christie's inner circle well informed aout traffic jams

[lindysalsagal]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/documents-show-christies-inner-circle-well-informed-about-traffic-jams/

AP January 12, 2014, 12: 12 AM
Documents show Christie's inner circle well informed about traffic jams

TRENTON, N.J. - Thousands of pages of documents released this week by a legislative panel investigating the lane closures at the George Washington Bridge show members of Gov. Chris Christie's inner circle were well-informed about the apparently politically motivated traffic jams the governor said took him by surprise.

When a reporter demanded answers about the huge traffic jams, a high-ranking port authority official appointed by Christie didn't refer it to his agency's media relations staff. He ordered it sent to the governor's press secretary.

And when the lanes were reopened at last, another authority staffer emailed the governor's now-fired deputy chief of staff to say Christie's hand-picked agency chairman was helping to "retaliate" against the official who stopped the closures.

[questionseverything]

1. the pundits are all over themselves proclaiming

NO DIRECT TIES TO CHRISTIE......I CALL BS

the idea that christie's inner most circle did this w/o his knowledge is really an "emperor has no clothes" moment...why has the justice department not arrested him for denial of honest services?

what is next,some pol cutting off water or heat to citizens that did not support him politically?

i guess we should not be surprised afterall repubs have been openly been trying to deny citizen their right to vote,their right to organize,their right to decide who their family consists of, so i am sure they feel justified in denying citizen's the right to use the bridges and roadways is no big deal

[lindysalsagal]

2. The good news this morning is that the main stream media is finally prosecuting this: CBS, NBC, CNN

2 days ago the media seemed to be propping up Christie's denial plausibility. Not so this morning. The editors can smell which way the wind is blowing: It's going to sink his ship.

[George II]

10. They've been covering it since last fall. The first documents were only released on Wednesday.

[Botany]

3. "Bridget Kelly was messaging about GWB lane closures on day she accompanied Christie"

http://www.northjersey.com/news/state/CHRISTIE_KELLY_gwb_lane_closures_seaside_emails.html



Now how would Christie ever have known about this?

That pix is Ms. Kelly texting David Wildstein about a cover story of a traffic study as the
reason the GWB was closed down.


“The Port Authority is reviewing traffic safety patterns at the George Washington Bridge to ensure proper placement of toll lanes,” the message reads. “The [Port Authority Police Department] has been in contact with Fort Lee police throughout this transition.”

[questionseverything]

4. do we have any time stamps for the pics?

the pic looks damning especially if you add the sour pic of her after when cc has the phone

[Botany]

5. Some paper in NJ matched up the time of that pix to the time that the text was sent

I don't know if this was Kelly or Wildstein's text about the cover story they
were working on .... BTW the Fort Lee Police were never contacted before the shut down.

“The Port Authority is reviewing traffic safety patterns at the George Washington Bridge to ensure proper placement of toll lanes,” the message reads. “The [Port Authority Police Department] has been in contact with Fort Lee police throughout this transition.” - See more at: http://www.northjersey.com/news/state/CHRISTIE_KELLY_gwb_lane_closures_seaside_emails.html#sthash.kK6rDUeY.dpuf

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From the CBS piece ..... this goes right to the person Christie picked to be his
chief of staff but Chris didn't know about it?

But the email and text-message traffic shows port authority officials were in communication with several of his close advisers in the immediate aftermath of the September closures.

The day Port Authority Executive Director Patrick Foye ordered the lanes reopened, he sent an email asserting the lane closings created a public safety hazard and may have violated federal and state laws. That email was forwarded to a senior Christie staffer, Regina Egea.

Egea is currently the head of Christie's authorities unit and one of his 10 senior staff members. Before the scandal broke, he had tapped her to be his next chief of staff.

[questionseverything]

6. the feds need to look at kellys phone,emails,ect

they have more than enough for a warrant

[lindysalsagal]

8. Now that she's fired, and that she used private email instead of official,

You know she's all lawyered up, and it will take a judge to get them from the ISP's.

This story has a loooooooooooooooooooong way to go!

I would expect her to bargain for immunity and then she'll cough him up like the hairball that he is. That will take weeks-

In the meantime, it's probably making the GOP rethink their neanderthal tactics. One can only hope...

[skydive forever]

9. he had tapped her

Eeeewwwwwwwwwwww. Brain soap, quick!!!!!

[Iliyah]

7. Weird isn't it?

Corporate media is protecting CC, but, when it comes to Pres O or any other Dem and it's instant blaming and prosecution.

[MsPithy]

11. Does christie seem like the kind of boss

who would tolerate a staffer who would close the busiest bridge in the world, without his go-ahead?

And, another thing, the most obvious reason to not ask your staff a single question about why they did this, is because you already know the answers.

[Kablooie]

12. But of course Christie himself was carefully prevented from knowing anything about it.

They planned to let him know later as a surprise birthday present, I guess.

I can just see all his aids giggling among themselves at keeping the governor completely ignorant of all this activity that harmed so many people under his jurisdiction.

[spanone]

13. he. knew.

[Blue Owl]

14. He was in the traffic cone of silence, no doubt

n/t