Strange Luck Strikes Again

There's an adage that goes, "once is a fluke, twice is a coincidence, thrice is a trend, four times is a fact, and five times is a conspiracy."

Okay, so I embellished it a tad. But after all these years, it's difficult to explain away the Clintons' nimble escapes any other way. Especially this one.

In a surprise move that shocked even the judge at the trial of Hillary's Clinton's former finance director, David Rosen - prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg announced yesterday that he would not introduce the government's strongest evidence that Rosen was guilty - the Hillary aide's own tape recorded admission implicating him in election fraud.

"The government does not intend to introduce the tape or elicit any testimony from the witness about that conversation," Zeidenberg told Judge A. Howard Matz.

Judge Matz was stunned by Zeidenberg's announcement, and hinted that the Bush prosecutor was throwing away his case.

"You couldn't keep [the tape] out," an incredulous Matz protested. "I wouldn't let you keep it out."

But eventually the Clinton appointed judge relented, saying he said he would allow Zeidenberg to file a "real pithy" argument in lieu of introducing the Rosen tape.

The Bush prosecutor went so far as to trash the Rosen audiotape, arguing that it was "hearsay," and requesting that Judge Matz bar even the defense from referencing it.

From my previous posts on this topic you can glean that I never expected that this trial would make any significant degree of trouble for Mrs. Clinton or her presidential ambitions. I figured that the trial would go forward, and Rosen would finish falling on his sword like so many Clinton underlings before him, and that would be that.

But the prosecutor in the case refusing to use his strongest piece of evidence? To say nothing of sounding far less like a prosecutor and far more like David Kendall (the Clintons' designated scandal shyster). It really says something when even the presiding Clintonoid federal judge was left sputtering in disbelief.

So the inevitable questions must be asked, based on the Clintons' track record in such precedings and the extraordinary actions of Mr. Zeidenberg: just how damaging must this audio tape be to Hillary? It must be critically damning if La Clinton Nostra got to Zeidenberg and coerced him to torpedo his own prosecution. And, for that matter, what do they have on Zeidenberg? Has a criminal prosecutor ever done such a thing outside of an organized crime case?

This isn't Clinton Chronicles stuff. Just as I did in the late '90s, I'm simply asking questions - questions that I believe deserve a full and candid answer before American voters make the same tragic mistake with Natasha that they did with Boris.

I wish I could believe they'll ever be asked by anybody with any stroke. If even the Bush DOJ is in league with the Dark Side...well, let's just say that's not grounds for rampant optimism.