Bush’s commutation was pure and simple amnesty for a convicted felon and perjurer. Not that the commutation was wrong, but it is what it is, and it is amnesty. It is ironic that so many people who supposedly hate amnesty for millions suddenly support it for one person.
“Many people” know that Libby took the bullet for the likes of Powell, Armitage, and Rice—who were missing in action during the Wilson thing. The Administration wa trying to handle a situation where the CIA was even more left-wing than State. In Cuba everyone from the Diector down to the mid-levels would have been thrown into prison.
>>>Bush’s commutation was pure and simple amnesty for a convicted felon and perjurer. Not that the commutation was wrong, but it is what it is, and it is amnesty.<<<
Huh? 2 years probation, $250,000 fine, and millions in legal fees for a conviction based on a statement that contradicted only one of the two versions of Tim Russert’s testimony, is amnesty? Your statement defies logic.
Face it, Libby had about as much chance in front of that DC jury as an old-South Black man would have in front of a jury full of Mississippi Democrats. One of the jurors told reporters that he voted to convict Libby because he believed Libby took part in outing Valerie Plame, of helped cover it up. Where did he get that notion? From none other than Patrick Fitzgerald’s closing statement (and, maybe from the non-stop lies and deceptions from the media).
There you have it. Even though Fitzgerald knew that Libby had nothing to do with the phony “outing” of Plame, and never charged Libby with anything related to the so-called “outing”, he still pretended that was part of the charge against Libby during his closing.
The logical thing to do would be to go after Fitzgerald for violation of Libby’s Constitutional right to a fair trial, try Joe Wilson for treason, and tar-and-feather that corrupt (or remarkedly stupid) trial judge.