Another investigation into Chris Christie ends up with
decidedly non-resultish results:
New Jersey lawmakers probing politically motivated traffic jams near the George Washington Bridge last year have found no evidence that Gov. Chris Christie was involved in the scheme. They did not rule out the possibility, however, as they have been unable to interview several witnesses. [...]
"At present, there is no conclusive evidence as to whether Governor Chris Christie was or was not aware of the lane closures either in advance of their implementation or contemporaneously as they were occurring," according to the report. "Nor is there conclusive evidence as to whether Governor Christie did or did not have involvement in implementing or directing the lane closures."
The problem is that some of the key witnesses, such as the Port Authority's David Wildstein, refused to answer questions, and that there's still nothing in the evidence that clearly exonerates Christie, who claims his aides did these crooked things without his knowledge. And then there's the matter of
the missing text messages:
[A] new report shows there were 12 text messages exchanged between the Governor and a top aide during an explosive day of testimony a year ago. [...]
But phone records subpoenaed from AT&T show the governor initiated the exchange, sending a total of three texts to Egea on December 9, 2013. Egea returned the text, and sent nine in total, all during the 6 hours of testimony by Port Authority officials [...]
In Egea's own testimony last summer, the new report notes, she referred to a single text she sent that day as "not at all substantive." She said she "couldn't recall" a response from the governor.
So a dozen texts between them during the dramatic and highly publicized hearings into the exact thing being investigated, all of them deleted by both parties, while the aide testifies she only ever sent one and Christie says he doesn't remember anything "of import" in that one admitted message. Yeah, that clears everything up. I can't imagine why people still continue to believe Chris Christie's isn't telling investigators the whole truth.