Posted on 10/25/2005 9:51:05 AM PDT by churchillbuff
You're saying that making one phone call as a professional courtesy should ruin everything someone has worked for all their life? That is monumentally ridiculous.
I have explained repeatedly why the phone call demonstrated a lack of judgment and respect for his position as the VP's Chief of Staff. If you read Libby's testimony, you will see how poorly it reflected on him and the USG. Ruin his life? Hell, he could return to private practice and continue to make his millions.
I sure hope you have no management responsibilities in where you work, because if you apply the same principles there, you're never going to be able to keep good people.
I did and won a Department-wide annual award for management, among many others. I was a member of the Senior Executive Service. I will put my management skills against yours any day.
We'll I missed it. However, let me guess. They asked him, under oath, about his work on Rich's settlement efforts. They asked him about specific instances in which he defended Rich against some of the charges involved in the case?
Read the transcript in posts #96 and #97 and then let's discuss it. No need to guess.
Agreed. But you don't do things out of professional courtesy because the person receiving the call "deserves" it. You do it because it's part of being professional.
You keep dredging up this "professional courtesy" nonsense. Libby stopped being Rich's lawyer almost a year prior to his pardon. Rich's pardon was the center of a major political controversy. By making the call, Libby demonstrated poor judgment and resulted in his being called before Congress. During the hearing, he still was defending Rich.
The professional thing, from the standpoint of being a high-ranking USG official, was to refuse to return Rich's call and sever the relationship completely. Libby admitted that Rich was a traitor, pardon or not. Rich didn't deserve any professional courtesy. Finally, Libby had nothing to do with Rich's pardon.
A real international "operator." Cheney was warned not to hire this guy's lawyer. Cheney may yet rue the day he rejected that warning.
I wish more conservatives did.
Me, too.
There were so many things that did not make sense, that I went from place to place, looking for more info.
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