After 9 Months, Federal Probe of GWB Closure Finds No Link to Christie, Federal Sources Say

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NBC New York:

Jonathan Dienst, Joe Valiquette and Pete Williams

9/18/14

 

The U.S. Justice Department investigation into New Jersey Gov.Chris Christie’s role in “Bridgegate” has thus far uncovered no information he either knew in advance or directed the closure of traffic lanes on the George Washington Bridge, federal officials tell NBC 4 New York.

 

The September 2013 closures -- where several entrance lanes to the George Washington Bridge in Ft. Lee were shut down causing a traffic nightmare for commuters -- has been the subject of several federal and state investigations.

 

Federal officials caution that the investigation begun nine months ago is ongoing and that no final determination has been made, but say that after nine months authorities have uncovered no information Christie either knew in advance or ordered the closure of traffic lanes .

 

According to one former federal prosecutor, who had no involvement in any of the probes into the bridge closure, investigations of this kind will often turn up a solid connection early in the inquiry.

 

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Never Fear! Smirks Maddow is On The Job!

 

 

He's Still Guilty, even though nothing has been found.

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The Christie Scandal That Wasn’t
To MSNBC’s dismay, the Palisades have labored and brought forth a mouse.
Ian Tuttle

9/19/14

 

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Until Thursday, when sources revealed that the Bridgegate scandal was no national scandal at all. Then MSNBC became conspicuously busy covering other, no doubt urgent, news. Al Sharpton, on air when the news broke, gave nine minutes to the story. Maddow gave twelve. Matthews, Hayes, and O’Donnell apparently did not find the story worth mentioning. From 5:00 a.m. to noon on Friday morning, Chris Christie’s exoneration earned 14 total minutes of coverage on MSNBC.

 

It would, of course, be far too much to expect a mea culpa from the network. Even bolstered by the mental exertions of “America’s foremost public intellectual,” Melissa Harris-Perry, that would require an impossible degree of self-awareness. But is a proportionate mention of important, exculpatory breaking news too much to ask?

 

At MSNBC, that is apparently a bridge too far.