The June 2 issue of the New Yorker has a portrait of Roger Stone, the man who fingered Spitzer, and the man who provided most of the manpower behind the 2000 recount riot. The author is staff writer Jeffrey Toobin.
Here's Stone's philosophy from the closing paragraph:
Politics is not about uniting people. It’s about dividing people.
Here's his start in politics:
Stone moved to Washington to attend George Washington University, but he became so engrossed in Republican politics that he never graduated. He was just nineteen when he played a bit part in the Watergate scandals. He adopted the pseudonym Jason Rainier and made contributions in the name of the Young Socialist Alliance to the campaign of Pete McCloskey, who was challenging Nixon for the Republican nomination in 1972. Stone then sent a receipt to the Manchester Union Leader, to "prove" that Nixon’s adversary was a left-wing stooge.
The dirty tricks after that focussed on Dems. Roger Stone has often worked with Charlie Black, famous Repub thug. Dengre wrote about the pair, Get Ready: McCain is surrounded by GOP thugs, last weekend.
The whole article brings one to a new level of sleaze. If we still had independent prosecutors, there would seem to be plenty here for conviction. The linked article includes a photo of Roger Stone, but is missing the hard copy reverse with a hard-to-believe tattoo.