Suddenly the evidence swung against the government as questioning moved on to witnesses from the Ministry of Defence.
And just like that, the questioning moved on to other topics, namely Ms. Reid's role in facilitating a $1.2 million contribution that Mr. Bloomberg made to the state's Independence Party.
And yet, in the brief tussle that followed, Cruz managed to make it sound as if he were being unjustly denied a chance to turn to the debt ceiling as the questioning moved on to the next candidate.
But when the questioning moved on to another issue, Mr. Santorum circled back to point out that Mr. Romney, who had gone from supporting abortion rights to opposing them, was hardly pure on the issue: "By the way, I just want to add that when I was standing up behind Arlen Specter, Mitt Romney was pro-choice," Mr. Santorum said.
The questioning moved on, but the tension hung in the air as they discussed fiscal matters, education, security, whether a new financial center should be built downtown (Mr. Green's position) or decentralized and in the boroughs, at least at first (Mr. Ferrer's position).
The questioning quickly moves to dentistry: Mr. Williams has $500,000 worth of diamonds in his teeth.
But it hasn't been a smooth transition for LA to move over from GroupWise to Google Apps; and it appears that the City administrators are questioning the move thanks to productivity, security and slowness issues with Google Apps.
But with prosecutors investigating whether the auction houses fixed prices and questioning every move they make, it was obvious that a message was being not so subtly delivered, even at this distance.
Even before the news of the trade broke, cornerback Antonio Cromartie posted a message on his Twitter page questioning the move: "Y bring Tebow in when we need to bring in more Weapons for @Mark Sanchez let's build the team around him.
In April, LA City administrators began questioning the move thanks to productivity, security and slowness issues with Google Apps.
