That Bogus Traffic Study -Why? The most likely answer: Christie was hoping for plausible deniability

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http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/christie-cover-up-article-1.1575949
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Then came the cover-up and Samson’s complete abdication of responsibility.

The PA’s highly paid press staff was ordered to refuse to answer all media questions. They maintained omerta until Foye’s memo leaked to The Wall Street Journal. At that point, Wildstein immediately notified Christie’s top press staffer that the cover-up was unraveling. That puts the knowledge right in Christie’s inner circle.

Even then, Baroni held to the “study” fable in an unsworn appearance before the Jersey legislature. And Christie on Thursday continued to give it credence, saying:

“There still may have been a traffic study that now has political overtones to it as well . . . We’re going to find out, but I don’t know, because Sen. Baroni presented all types of information that day to the legislature — statistics and maps and otherwise — that seemed evidence of a traffic study, so why would I believe that anybody would not be telling the truth about that?”

Why? The most likely answer: Christie was hoping for plausible deniability. That’s why the question still remains: What did the governor know and when did he know it?

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And just like Nixon, it is the coverup that's going to take them down.