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Best part of the Taiwanese animation.

It's possible the timing went the other way, and the court date was scheduled to give the police time to prepare.

My theory is that Lisi was the go-between, but he's the guy they've got on tape saying "If you want the video to go away, it'll be three hundred grand."

We know that, but there's no guarantee that he does.

They wait across the street, then enter his driveway when he walks to his car. He can't cry foul here and also have his chief of staff say that he has "no press availability" today.

I think it would have to be very obvious for someone to ask, because you're wandering into libel territory. I'm sure they're having lots of private discussions about it. Unfortunately our system is designed assuming that everyone has some basic level of decency, and the system sort of breaks...

Yeah he's more jolly drunk than coke focused here. If it was cocaine, he'd be jumping from idea to idea. Talking extra fast, and seeming extra "on it." Here he's wobbly, he's flushed, he's relaxed. If he's intoxicated, he's drunk, or on some kind of downer.

Someone needs to straight up ask him: "Are you intoxicated, Mayor Ford?"

All evidence seems to point to Bill Blair playing for the win. The crackdown on leaks over the last few weeks has been impressive as well. I think they're preparing for something big. The timing of this interview is interesting. I wonder if the police are making some deals with the media. You...

We also don't know what statements Ford made to the police. They probably told the truth to the police. Unfortunately, there's no charge for lying to the public on a radio station -- if there were we'd probably have a different mayor by now.

He's probably still coming down at 4am.

I think we can't downplay the idea that Ford might be deeply in debt to the wrong kind of people, or spending money in unhealthy ways.

I also don't think you can underestimate the deleterious effects that unchecked addiction can have on your bank account.

If Provost finally stood up to him, that could be it. You don't fire your buddy you always fight with for fighting with you, but when your employee talks back, that's when things get ugly.

I think you pick the cop who's close to retirement so he doesn't have to worry about retribution from other cops for the rest of their career. Makes me think the cops are going after their own a bit on this one.

Exactly. I think Taverner screwed the pooch trying to go easy on his pal, and then when Blair found out, he took over and put his best man on the case to try and bring the thing home. It could explain why Sandro Lisi was arrested in Taverner's 23rd division, but was processed in 22nd division.

One thought I've had is that Tavener was in charge of Project Traveller. Do you think he wanted to protect his friend and maybe ordered officers in his division to ignore the mayor? I think it's pretty obvious that the investigators have been trying to conceal their activities from some...

It's sounding more and more like Ron Tavener swept a bunch of stuff under the rug for his buddy Ford, and when the Chief found out he launched Brazen 2. It's possible that the best evidence of Ford's involvement was destroyed or intentionally not collected during this investigation.

I would love to know what Robyn Doolittle and Kevin Donovan know but can't report. I'm willing to bet that Doolittle also has a ton of material on "deep background" for her book. Stuff that people won't allow her to publish until after something goes down. I think the timing of her book is...