March 14, 2008 (LPAC)--The March 13 column in the Wall Street Journal by attorney Alan Dershowitz, called, “The Entrapment of Eliot,” about New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer raises a suspicion of entrapment. Criticizing the authorities for not closing down the case, Dershowitz writes that “they wiretapped 5,000 phone conversations, intercepted 6,000 emails, used surveillance and undercover tactics that are more appropriate for trapping terrorists than entrapping johns.”

The suspicion raised by Dershowitz is “highly plausible, in light of what we know at this moment,'' said Lyndon LaRouche yesterday. LaRouche also reiterated what he had brought out in his international webcast of March 12, where he said that Eliot was targeted as a warning to other superdelegates, and that, “You should ask, ‘who's the next target?’”

Dershowitz, a combative criminal lawyer, writes, “There is no hard evidence that Eliot Spitzer was targeted for investigation, but the story of how he was caught does not ring entirely true to many experienced former prosecutors and current criminal lawyers.” He says, “the movement of the amounts of cash required to pay prostitutes, even high-priced prostitutes does not commonly generate a full-scale investigation.'' But in this case, he adds, authorities, who should have closed the case, expanded it instead, because “they had caught a big fish in the wide net they had cast....

While the U.S. is not the Soviet Union, Dershowitz says, he recalls, “Lavrenti Beria, the head of Joseph Stalin's KGB, once quipped to his boss, ‘show me the man and I will find the crime.’”