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To: elmatador who wrote (83685)	11/27/2011 12:37:14 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 218474

Thanks for posting - now it is clear that my assumption where right from the very beginning that DSK was framed, the question is still open who did it. On another note it proves how bad and biased the judgment of the NYS persecutors where. IMHO it is a very shameful episode to US justice and the US media which was all over themselves to blame DSK as being a monster. The US as a nation must apologize for the carnival like and vicious character destruction of a talented economist who could have saved the EU with a natural genetically induced weakness to women. The fact that no one will face indictment in this episode is also a shameful evidence of US due process justice which is based on the principle of being innocent until proven guilty. When asked why she had not used her pass key to go into another room, she said they all had “do not disturb” signs on the door. After her grand jury testimony, prosecutors discovered that this was false when the hotel belatedly provided them with the electronic key records showing that Ms Diallo had entered the other room, number 2820, at 12.26pm, after her encounter with Mr Strauss-Kahn. The same record also showed she had also entered room 2820 prior to the encounter and at a time when the occupant had not checked out and might have been in the room. Why she concealed visiting 2820 was “inexplicable” to the prosecutors, who noted that if she had mentioned her visits to 2820, it would have been declared part of the crime scene and searched by the police. Nor were Mr Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers able to find an explanation. When they attempted to learn the identity of the occupant of 2820, Sofitel refused to release it on grounds of privacy. Given Ms Diallo’s conflicting accounts, all that is really known about what happened in the nearby room 2820 is that she went there both before and after encountering Mr Strauss-Kahn and then omitted the latter visit from her sworn testimony to the grand jury. The Sofitel electronic key record, which the hotel did not turn over to the prosecutors until the next week, contained another unexplained anomaly. Two individuals, not one, entered Mr Strauss-Kahn’s suite between 12:05 and 12.06 while he was showering. Each used a different key card. The card used at 12.06 belonged to Ms Diallo; the one used at 12:05 belonged to Syed Haque, a room service employee who, according to his account, came to pick up the breakfast dishes. If he did so, he would have turned left and gone to the dining room. But Mr Haque has refused to be interviewed by Mr Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers, so his precise movements have not been made public. Since the key cards do not register the time of exit, it cannot be determined from them whether both parties were in the room at the same time or, for that matter, at the time of Ms Diallo’s encounter with DSK. Missing phone, delayed calls Mr Strauss-Kahn’s BlackBerry, with its messages, is still missing. Investigations by both the police and private investigators retained by his lawyers failed to find it. While Mr Strauss-Kahn believed he had left it in the Sofitel, the records obtained from BlackBerry show that the missing phone’s GPS circuitry was disabled at 12.51. This stopped the phone from sending out signals identifying its location. From electronic information that became available to investigators this month, it appears the phone did not leave the Sofitel. If it was innocently lost, whoever found it never used it, raising the question of by whom and why it was disabled. In any case, its absence made it impossible for Mr Strauss-Kahn to check – as he had planned to do – to see whether it had been compromised. Nor was it possible to verify from the phone itself the report he received on May 14 that his messages were being intercepted.

To: elmatador who wrote (83685)	11/27/2011 1:20:09 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218474

By the time the 911 call was finally made, the hotel’s management was presumably aware of the political explosion and scandal DSK’s arrest would cause. DSK could no longer be a challenger to Sarkozy. Such considerations, and the opportunities they presented, may have had no part whatever in the hotel’s handling of the situation, but without knowing the content of any messages between the hotel managers in New York and the security staffs in New York or Paris, among others, we cannot be sure. Meanwhile, several mysteries remain. Was there anyone in room 2820 besides Diallo during and after the encounter with DSK? If so, who were they and what were they doing there; and why, in any case, did Diallo deny that she’d gone to the room? Because she denied it, the police, according to the prosecutor’s recommendation for dismissal, did not search 2820 or declare it a crime scene. And where, if it still exists, is the BlackBerry that DSK lost and feared was hacked? All we know for sure is that someone, or possibly an accident, abruptly disabled it from signaling its location at 12:51 PM. DSK himself has not explained why he was so concerned about the possible interception of his messages on this BlackBerry and its disappearance. According to stories in Libération and other French journals on November 11, 2011, DSK sent text messages on a borrowed cell phone to at least one person named in the still-unfolding affair involving the Carlton Hotel in Lille, a scandal in which corporations allegedly provided high-class escort women to government officials. (DSK denies that he was connected to the prostitution ring.) If DSK sent these messages, may he also have received embarrassing messages back on his own BlackBerry that could have been damaging to his reputation and political ambitions? Or his concern could also have proceeded from other matters, such as the sensitive negotiations he was conducting for the IMF to stave off the euro crises. Whatever happened to his phone, and the content on it, his political prospects were effectively ended by the events of that day.