The Anatomy of a MAJOR MEDIA SMEAR: Attorney General Schneiderman's staff TARGETED by Private Investigators in pay of bankers who want their CRIMINAL FRAUD and PERJURY FORECLOSURE cases swept under rug...

To correct von Clauswitz's otherwise insightful quote, "Politics IS WAR by slightly less violent means", and no one understands this better than "the money power," who have been financing wars, and less violent attacks on their enemies, for centuries.    According to conspiracy theorists, all three U.S. presidents who opposed a privately owned central bank in America (bank cabals "earning" tens of billions of dollars charging interest to the U.S. government (taxpayers) for the fiat money they create out of thin air as debits in their ledgers) - Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, and John F. Kennedy - were the targets of assassins hired by the "money power" bankers.

   Whether these allegations of murder and assassination of U.S. presidents are true or not
(President Andrew Jackson survived a gunman shooting at him from point-blank range, only because the gunman's two attempted shots misfired - both primers failed, a miracle even in those days of poor ammunition.  Lincoln & Kennedy did not survive their assassin's bullets, whoever may have hired those assassins) one thing is certain: the "Money Power" bankers, when they feel their business and billions of dollars of illicit profits are at risk, are certainly not shy about using all their titanic resources, money, power, connections, and control of the press/media which they own - to smear, defame, and destroy their political opponents.   

   The most recent example is the take-down of the Bill Clinton presidency, by the Washington Post and New York Times led 8 year serial onslaught of scandal 'reporting.' While to casual observers it may have appeared as if the Post and Times were merely FOLLOWING Republican critics of the Clinton administration,  the grim truth is that ONLY by KEEPING VARIOUS SCANDAL ACCUSATIONS ON the FRONT PAGES, for days, weeks, and months on end, could Republican congressmen and senators sustain their efforts to create and finance congressional investigations into the White House, which fueled further salacious NY Times and Washington Post scandalmongering details, which included the Times and Post attempting to make the very word "Lincoln bedroom" into a SYNONYM for corruption, when President Clinton let his biggest campaign donors spend a night in the White House in return for their contributions - something that every other president, before and since, has done,  WITHOUT the crescendo of outrage from the whore Times and whore Post.
(Including the Times and Post giving a WHITEWASH to ENRON KEN LAY and JACK ABRAMOFF's many visits to the Bush White House, or known gay male prostitute "Jeff Ganon" spending many a late night at the Bush W. White House.) 

    Contrast the Times and Post ferverent efforts to INVESTIGATE and SMEAR the Clinton White House, with the Times & Post current efforts to WHITEWASH VAST FINANICAL CRIMES, whether under the Bush or Obama presidencies - the obvious conclusion is, that as long as a president permits TITANIC FRAUD and DERELICTION OF DUTY in government oversight & regulation of big finance, then the "major media" papers will  give that administration a "free pass" on scandals.
     And for those outside of the corrupt, bought-and-owned White House who might want to investigate some of those TITANIC FINANCIAL CRIMES that the Sulzberger NY Times,  Meyer/Graham Washington Post, cnn/Time/Warner media empire, and Bloomberg 'news' all pretend not to notice?
   Well, you can expect a TON OF private investigators DIGGING UP DIRT on you and your staff,  if you dare to try to ENFORCE those financial laws that protect America's peon consumers, workers, savers, taxpayers from the criminal, treasonous, economy gutting wolves running New York, DC, and Wall St.

 Are Private Investigators Being Used to Intimidate New York Attorney General Schneiderman’s Staff?
NakedCapitalism.com,  Sunday, September 18, 2011
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/09/are-private-investigators-being-used-to-intimidate-new-york-attorney-general-schneidermans-staff.html

The New York Post has a salacious story about Alisha Smith, a lawyer with the New York attorney general’s office, who is a dominatrix in her private life. Frankly, many of the skills honed by being a domme probably come in handy in litigation (such as knowing exactly how much pain and humiliation to administer when).
The problem isn’t with her having a kinky private life per se; it is the allegation by the Post that she may have gotten paid for performing at S&M parties. Smith makes all of $78,825 a year and the policy of the state AG’s office is for staff to obtain prior approval of any activity which will earn them more than $1,000. The Post presented its allegations about Smith, who was hired by Andrew Cuomo and played an important role in a securities fraud case that led to a $5 billion settlement by Bank of America. She has been suspended without pay as the AG conducts an investigation.
After l’affaire Spitzer, readers in comments have repeatedly noted that Schneiderman had better be squeaky clean since he would be targeted by private investigators, as Spitzer clearly was. This Post “story” looks to have been the result of private investigators going after Schneiderman’s staff, with the intent of intimidating them and embarrassing and discrediting him. This report is even less specific than the one the Post filed on the maid who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of rape and clearly came from private investigators in the employ of DSK. And those sensationalistic charges, that she was a hooker, that the union had placed her in the hotel and had some sort of profit sharing arrangement, that she was turning tricks while under protective custody, all appear to have been fabrications (they initially sounded plausible because they were detailed, but the maid is suing the Post for defamation, and a source has indicated that there is no evidence that she was a prostitute).
The claim here is, as with DSK, from a single source, and a mere assertion:

Alisha Smith, 36, who dresses demurely as a buttoned-down prosecutor, turns up the heat when she becomes perky persecutor “Alisha Spark,” a nom de dom she uses when she performs at S&M events for pay, according to a fetish source.
“They pay her to go to the events. She dominates people, restrains them and whips them,” the fetish source said.

Now it may be true that she was paid, but performing at S&M events does not necessarily mean she IS paid (by happenstance, I know someone people who have been involved in this subculture, and being a very nosy consultant, I had to debrief them. Yes, there are S&M events/gatherings where the “act” performs for fun. Remember, some people are exhibitionists). The proof of the pudding will be whether she is reinstated.
Tom Adams, an attorney and consultant who has been involved in mortgage litigation, wrote:

Not to be paranoid, but this story is almost certainly the result of a private investigator digging for dirt on the NY AG’s office.
The Post conveniently omits any reference in the story about where the reporters learned about this woman’s activities. Also, it is not at all a coincidence that she worked on Cuomo’s BofA settlement. It seems likely that Schneiderman had her working on his new securitization cases since she had experience.
The Post plays coy about where they got the information from, they cite an anonymous “friend” (probably the investigator himself) and they provide some key bits of Internet confirmation (Twitter, Facebook, etc) which may or may not have been hacked.
Oddly, I saw a similar “outing” of a dominatrix 2 years ago. Yet she was a complete sidelight to the true target of the investigators: her husband, who was active in politics and fighting some banks on foreclosure of several properties in the Hamptons. I had suspected then that the investigators were hired by the banks who then turned the information to the Post and the police, who busted the husband and the wife (for being a dominatrix? I’m not even sure why now other than humiliation).
I’m sure this story about this poor woman is just a warning shot to Schneiderman. It means they are working on him and he can expect to see more of these stories.

It’s hard to see how Schneiderman can protect his staff from this sort of search for dirt. And if Smith is vindicated, she can’t sue the Post and continue in her day job (the time demands and the exposure both argue against it). So if the claim that she is taking money proves to be scurrilous, the Post and its sources are unlikely to suffer for releasing this hit job. 

 THE MONEY POWER STRIKES AGAIN!  Creating  new "MARQUIS de SADE" levels of gross inequality and the right of royals and nobels to abuse people and committ (financial) crimes with IMPUNITY, in the name of "moral values" and "national security" of course - Today's "American" MEDIA WHORES  are PIMPING the modern equivalent of appeals to mass control "for god, king, duty, and country" that the entitled autocrats of the past used to justify their relentless greed and insatiable ambitions.