Bruno wants Spitzer questioned

SARATOGA SPRINGS - After two days of apologies, prosecutor-turned-Gov. Eliot Spitzer on Wednesday criticized as “purely partisan” a call for more investigation into his administration's misuse of state police against a political opponent.

The target of the tracking by state police, Republican Senate leader Joseph Bruno, insisted the public needs to know if Spitzer was involved in the plot that has resulted in one top aide suspended and another about to be reassigned.

“I believe for the first time in the history of this state, an executive - the governor's office - has seen fit to abuse the power of that office to spy and track and attempt to really destroy what apparently the governor's office considers a political rival,” Bruno told reporters Wednesday.