Audio tape of Craig (R-Bathrooms) right after his arrest. "You are lying to a police officer."

[draft_mario_cuomo]

You can listen to it at http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/the-craig-tape/index.html?ex=1346126400&en=c4898e78f8796990&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

=We can’t say, let’s go to the tape and ask you to watch video. But we can suggest that you may want to listen to the tape-recording, just post the restroom arrest, of Senator Larry Craig, Republican of Idaho, that has now been broadcast (repeatedly) in the last few hours on several cable television and news networks. That way you can hear him in his own voice in the immediate moments following his arrest.==

==In a news conference this week, Senator Craig called his decision to enter the plea a “lapse in judgment” made in the hopes of making it all go away. He did so — astonishingly — without a lawyer’s counsel, he said in Boise, once the incident became publicized. Roll Call earlier this week first reported the formal guilty plea and outcome that was recorded on Aug. 8.

The audio-recording details how the officer was hanging out inside a stall, patrolling, not trolling, because this particular restroom, he said, had been the site of illicit sex in a place, the department and others reminded, where the public, with children, tend to, um, go.

You can hear, if you want to listen, Senator Craig arguing with the police officer about his hand and foot gestures. You can hear Senator Craig arguing as to whether this entire scene involved entrapment. This could be a critical point, now that the senator has retained a lawyer to review his plea agreement and the circumstances of his arrest. ==

Read the rest at http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/the-craig-tape/index.html?ex=1346126400&en=c4898e78f8796990&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

[LiberalFighter]

1. Someone in his position knowing that he is doing something illegal

Would probably have thought out ahead of time what he would say if he was confronted by law enforcement.

[Progressive Friend]

2. LOL

[rasputin1952]

3. In order to get a guilty plea reversed, he would have to show

he was coerced under immense psychological pressure, physical torture or some other mitigating circumstance. This isn't going to work in a legitimate court, even if the lawyer retained is a Clarence Darrow clone, (who lost more cases that he won, but he set the stage to change precedents).

In any case, everyone in this country knows you never plead guilty to a crime you feel you are Innocent of. If Craig didn't realize this, he does not have the sense to be in the Senate.

One other thing, how did he "know" the signs to procure sex in the bathroom? Even better, why did he use them?

Every male in the country knows that a Men's Room is not a place to socialize. You take care of business, no roaming eyes, no banter about the weather or news, things are pretty cut and dried in BR etiquette. If you don't know the person/people you are in there with, you keep your mouth shut, you stare at the wall, (or if sitting, you can read the paper or something, graffiti is generally pretty poor in stalls), you wash your hands and get out. Public restrooms are more like jail cells, if you see something "odd", you might tell someone outside of the Porcelain Palace, usually to family or friends....but unless someone is getting beat up in the corner, you mind your own business.