Posted on 05/01/2007 8:01:21 AM PDT by ventanax5
By the time he was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice on March 6 of this year, it had long been clear to opponents of the Bush administration that the trial of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby marked a defining moment. As Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, Libby had been a central figure in developing the President’s case for the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The lies he was accused of telling were wrapped up in the justification for that war, and with the administration’s attempt to discredit one of its critics.
Thus, an acquittal of Libby would have constituted, in the eyes of the President’s many adversaries, yet another example of how this administration has repeatedly trampled on the Constitution and the justice system and gotten away with it. By contrast, the fact that Libby was found guilty—on two counts of perjury, one count of obstruction of justice, and one count of making false statements to the FBI—was taken as definitive confirmation that the Bush White House did indeed “lie us into war,” all the while perfidiously attacking its critics in order to intimidate and silence them.
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Lesson of the Libby affair is use the old Democrat stand by response to ANY question: “I don’t recall”!
libby fell on his sword to protect his lover judith miller and spare his wife from public humiliation
Say what?
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