# Did Christie (or his staff) intentionally cause the Fort Lee traffic jam? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 9, 2014, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-christie-or-his-staff-intentionally-cause-the-fort-lee-traffic-jam/678351 "2014-01-09T13:34:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 511
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-christie-or-his-staff-intentionally-cause-the-fort-lee-traffic-jam/678351/511 "2014-02-02T20:33:57Z")
Well that was a fine whine. > [@So, should we get used to saying, Inmate Christie?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-should-we-get-used-to-saying-inmate-christie/679234/36): > > Keep in mind that [Wildstein](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/david-wildstein-they-play-rough) is emphatically not [a reliable source](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/who-is-david-wildstein). He might be getting a bum rap in my links, but methinks it’s best to withhold judgment until the hard evidence is in. That’s from another thread. The [New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/nyregion/christies-office-targets-former-ally-in-a-memo.html?hp&_r=0) reported today on an [email blast that Christie is sending to his buddies](http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/chris-christie-new-york-times-david-wildstein-102987.html), basically an attack piece against Wildstein. I love it when they eat their own. It touches upon incidents from Wildstein’s childhood (Christie and Wildstein grew up together) as well as unflattering portraits of Wildstein behavior. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Another piece of the puzzle. I’ll go out on a limb here and state my tentative opinion that Wildstein is even more of a sleezeball than Christie. That doesn’t say anything about the accuracy of one statement or another though. And Wildstein has his defenders: one writer for Wildstein’s old NJ blog said that he always had his employees’ backs. That said, Wildstein is pleading the fifth at the moment and has every incentive to dangle unspecified evidence in front of the NJ investigative committee. That doesn’t imply that said evidence amounts to anything. Pst: **doorhinge**. Facts, quotes, links and citations are a lot more persuasive than suppositions and blinkered complaints about media conspiracies. There’s plenty of ammo for Christie apologists in the linked NYT article for example. ETA: Wildstein’s claims: [The Noose Tightens Yet Again Around Chris Christie – Mother Jones](http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/01/noose-tightens-yet-again-around-chris-christie) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-christie-or-his-staff-intentionally-cause-the-fort-lee-traffic-jam/678351)._