Disgraced New York State governor Eliot Spitzer had cause to feel frisky when he visited Washington in February. As he was paying off a call girl, the press was preparing to run a Spitzer broadside against the world's biggest financial powers and President George W Bush, whom he described as a fugitive from justice and a partner in crime with predator lenders. It was a politically fatal coincidence. - F William Engdahl (Mar 19, '08)