The Strauss Kahn accuser should be deported.
Though not a backer, something about sending Sizemore to prison never sat well with me to begin with. Taxes. We don't send many folks to prison over taxes. Hookers caught on the street spend less time jailed.
If the shoe were on the other political foot there would be outrage in this paper.

Didn't DSK get thrown into solitary? For how long?
And then her pack of lies came to light.
A complete embarrassment to the US.
OK, IF she is a citizen now I'd hope for charges pressed against her, and if not a citizen she should be asked to leave.
Seemingly everyone was ready to jump this guys shit at first - and now it appears he was the victim.
Remember the piece Ben Stein wrote that was challenged in this paper? That girl owes Ben Stein a big apology.

I'm glad scientists have determined my existance. I was starting to wonder if I was a figment of my imagination.

Classic honey trap, Strauss Kahn was to have been the next Socialists President of France.

@1: I'm not sure having charges dismissed makes the accuser a perjurer. It just means the case was insufficient for prosecution. She's still appealing, so simmer down rodeo clown.

I hope the Socialists will give DSK the bum's rush if he runs for president. The good news is he'll probably leave the U.S. now. Good riddance.

@ frankieb, charges dropped doesn't equal innocence. Given the allegations and DSK's past of aggressive assaults, it's beyond likely that something approaching the allegations occurred. The problem with the prosecution is simply that the accuser is not someone who is ever going to be able to give evidence to convict beyond a reasonable doubt. Given that fatal flaw, there is no reason to pursue a ludicrously expensive and politically charged trial that will almost certainly end in a loss.

Well, I think it's rare for prosecuters to throw in the towel on just about any case... we are usually concerned with over-prosecution, right?
I understand though that charges dropped doesn't equal innocence.
But what of her claiming to be gang-raped in order to get into this country and recanting every aspect of that story to the police? Claiming rape isn't new to her, right?
The telephone call to her bf saying she was gonna make some money off this guy?
The many other lies and inconsistancies of her story?
And since when are the rich and powerful not afforded the protection of law while in our country? They can be victims too. (granted, they make it tougher to empathize with)
He might just be a scumbag too, but we really don't know that. We do know she is a liar who has used the allegation of Rape falsely in the past. And there are few things worse than being called a rapist.

WHY ARE THE RICH AND POWERFUL TREATED SO SHABBILY HERE? oh gimme a fucking break.

Hi Todd. Never said they were.
But the comment you focused in on was meant for jonesr #5.

Do we really know he has this 'habit'? There isn't alot of evidence or prior convictions, to support that, right? Then aren't you sorta convicting the guy in the public arena on hearsay, aren't you?
I just HOPE she is deportable. She makes a mockery of our asylum laws.
I wonder how the reaction would be if he were a poor black man and she was Leona Helmsey...?
Is it really so hard to believe that this rich, powerful, old white dude was getting taken for a ride here?

I'm with you, frankieb. That phone call to her boyfriend - this was premeditated fraud and defamation, and caused an innocent man to get put in jail and plastered all over the international news. Of course she should be jailed or deported.

@ frankieb,

1. She lied about being gang-raped by soldiers so she could "cut the line" and get LPR status via asylum. It's kinda common. It's also BS to do it, but I'm not sure it automatically makes you a terrible person.

2. There's no doubt that a sexual encounter happened in DSK's suite in a ludicrously short amount of time. The question is whether it was consensual or not. Is that gross old guy really that charming and convincing? It does sound like he's charmed and convinced you, I guess - maybe you should give him a call before he leaves the country.

3. This notion that this hotel maid was some kind of criminal mastermind who knew who DSK was and about his past allegations (from both a mother AND a daughter!) is completely absurd.

4. It seems quite likely that AFTER it happened she decided she could profit from it. That doesn't mean it didn't happen.

5. Just because there have been no charges filed in past accusations doesn't mean that the conduct happened. Again, from all previous accounts, DSK is a big fan of super aggressive sexual assault level come-ons.

This allegation fit that past hand-in-glove. You can either believe it was a sophisticated setup, or that DSK totally mouth raped this woman but is getting away with it because she has a lot of credibility problems.

I think the latter makes way more sense than the former, because I think conspiracy theories are generally for nimrods.

Neither sophisticated set-up nor mouth rape.
Opportunist sex.
..." The New York Times reported the case as being on the verge of collapse and quoted law-enforcement officials as saying investigators had uncovered major holes in the housekeeper's credibility.[7] She admitted she lied about the events immediately following her encounter with Strauss-Kahn.[8][33] She had initially said that after the alleged assault she waited in a hallway until Strauss-Kahn had left. She later said she cleaned an adjacent room, and then returned to Strauss-Kahn's room to clean there before reporting to her supervisor that she had been attacked.[33] She now says that after the assault she only visited another room briefly to pick up some personal effects.[1] Also amongst the discoveries were her statements to investigators differing from what she had put in her asylum application, her claiming to have only one phone while paying hundreds of dollars a month to 5 phone companies, and individuals, including known felons, putting almost $100,000 into her bank account over the past 2 years.[7]

In addition, the prosecution learned that, the day following the alleged assault, the housekeeper had made a phone call in her native Fula language to her boyfriend in an immigration detention center.[34][35] The New York Times quoted a law enforcement official as saying that a translation of the call revealed she had used words to the effect of "Don’t worry, this guy has a lot of money. I know what I’m doing." Prosecutors claimed that the conversation, one of at least three they recorded, raised "very troubling" questions about the credibility of the accuser "because she discussed the possible benefits of pursuing charges against a wealthy man."

Didn't she also lie to get cheap publicly funded housing she wouldn't have been elgible for, thus denying those truly in need?
I agree with you about conspiracy theories, and don't offer any. But really, since we both were not there, whose word is to be trusted here?

from DSK's ex-wife and a former lover....

"While considered a womanizer and described by Le Journal du Dimanche as un grand séducteur ("a great seducer"),[52] a number of close friends nevertheless said the allegations were out of character.[53][54] His previous wife, Brigitte Guillemette, did not deny her former husband was attracted to the opposite sex but insisted that violence was not part of his temperament and that the allegations were "unthinkable and impossible."[55][56] The Spanish writer Carmen Llera, a former lover, defended him in an open letter, declaring that " ...violence is not part of his culture."[57] This conclusion is supported by Strauss-Kahn's biographer who claims that he was a "typical French lover, but he's not able to rape a woman."

"Simmer down Rodeo Clown" is my new favorite expression.

"Frame the Victim: Prosecutors oversold the case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Now they're overselling the case against his accuser."

http://www.slate.com/id/2302193/

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/eu…

So what you're arguing is that Diallo a) entered DSK's suite and remained there for about 7 minutes (no one disputes this), then b) immediately had some sort of sexual encounter (no one disputes this), then c) Diallo immediately made up a story that was strikingly similar to two allegations over the last 11 years, one of which had never before been public, and one of which was highly, highly unlikely to be common knowledge to anyone in the US, let alone a NYC hotel maid.

I mean really, what are the odds that someone with an alleged past like this would be a "victim" of 7 minutes of "opportunist" sex of the type described?

The odds for this are certainly much higher than for someone of DSK's stature - with perhaps a run at the French Presidency on the line - suddenly deciding to rape a woman. Also think about whom women get raped by - very very rarely men of the age of 70, right?
Throw into the mix the accusers former false rape charges, lies about her story that night, her statement to her bf about making money off him, etc etc etc etc
(we are going round in circles) .... and I think the evidence weighs heavily in DSKs favor.
That mother / daughter story is starting to smell pretty fishy.
I did read the articles too you suggested too.
Frankly, I'm surprised one sentance I wrote set this all off. I would have guessed more comments accusing me of loving Sizemore or something.
It seems to me as if the implicit guilt of being an older white man of power and wealth outweighs his Socialism.

Colin, just finished watching a segment on OPB's News Hour concerning this whole fiasco. Catch it?
If so, change some of your views?