Head of IMF arrested and accused of sexual assault

[Jan Klimkowski]

The accused was handcuffed and escorted before television cameras a New York tradition known as a "perp walk." The suspect was photographed naked, which is also unusual, initially denied bail and held in solitary confinement. The Police Commissioner has boasted to the press that Strauss-Kahn is strip-searched now multiple times a day also unheard-of.
By the end of the second day's news cycle, senior public officials had weakened the presumption of innocence, a cornerstone of any civilized society's justice system. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was calling for Strauss-Kahn's resignation from the IMF, and Bloomberg remarked, in response to objections to Straus-Kahn's perp walk, "don't do the crime." Whatever happened in that hotel room, Strauss-Kahn's career, and his presumption of innocence, was effectively over before any legal process had even begun.

Naomi Wolf's piece is fair and balanced.

As I've argued throughout this thread, none of us knows what happened in that hotel room.

However, Strauss-Kahn is no longer head of the IMF, and there is a clear deep political rationale for certain elite factions desperately wanting his removal at precisely the time it happened.

At the very least, those elite factions have seized the opportunity to perform a political hit on Strauss-Kahn.

At the worst, this is a manufactured political hit, pure and simple.