The Christie farce just became more of a farce

Someone in the Chris Christie camp has managed to get someone at the New York Times to accept and publish a leak saying that the internal investigation report "found no evidence of Gov. Christie's involvement" in the bridge closing.

Let me paraphrase that:   Christie has just exonerated himself.   Nothing more than that.

Here's the situation.   There is a special federal prosecutor systematically investigating the whole collection of scandals with Christie at their center.   In addition is the special joint legislative committee investigation.  Both are ongoing.

But, in the meantime, Christie hired a law firm -- where one of his good political friends is a partner -- to do an internal investigation.   The report hasn't been released yet, but Christie's office is leaking what it wants people to hear.  It's obviously a PR attempt to plant the idea of "complete exoneration" prior to the full report and all its details of the sordid mess that Christie has created.

Not that there is going to be anything substantive involving Christie himself.   None of the four key players who presumably hold all the smoking gungs -- Bridget Kelly, David Wildstein, Bill Boroni, and Bill Stepien -- were interviewed by this team.

What farce.  And did I mention that New Jersey taxpayers are paying more than $1 million for this "investigation"?

My conclusion:   Chris Christie must really be guilty of something.  If he's not, why not just sit back and wait for the prosecutor to fail to find any evidence?  The only thing that makes sense of Christie's behavior is that he knows it's going to come out, and he's sewing a public relations crazy quilt while he can, hoping to obfuscate the truth.

Ralph