Should the Eliot Spitzer Investigation be Made Available to the Public?

By Emmy Llewellyn

(c)2008 Associated Press, Picture by Tim Roske

P. David Soares, the Albany County district attorney, petitioned Gov. David Paterson to release "executive privilege" so that the investigation on former Gov. Eliot Spitzer could be made available to the public, according to Alanna Malone of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
The information that would be released encompasses the investigation on "Troopergate," which took place last year, when Spitzer and his staff tried to discredit Republican state Senate Leader Joseph L. Bruno. In October 2007, the Commission on Public Integrity released evidence that one of Spitzer's aides could have been forced to lie in a statement submitted while under oath. This Investigation, called "Investigation D," is what the D.A. wants to make public.
Currently, Gov. Paterson's office is seeking the advice of Attorney General Andrew Cuomo as to whether Spitzer still has privileges in keeping this investigation quiet, or whether Gov. Paterson can, in fact, made the investigation public at all.