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Thomas Sowell: Pardon Scooter Libby
realclearpolitics.com ^
| January 09, 2009
| Thomas Sowell
Posted on 01/08/2009 9:25:52 PM PST by kellynla
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01/08/2009 9:25:52 PM PST
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kellynla
To: kellynla
And also pardon the two border agents!
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posted on
01/08/2009 9:28:07 PM PST
by
johnthebaptistmoore
(Conservatives obey the rules. Leftists cheat. Who probably has the political advantage?)
To: kellynla
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01/08/2009 9:30:41 PM PST
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Tzimisce
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01/08/2009 9:34:25 PM PST
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jazusamo
(But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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01/08/2009 9:35:48 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: kellynla
Sure, pardon Libby right after you pardon Ramos and Compean.
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posted on
01/08/2009 9:39:54 PM PST
by
Nephi
(Like the failed promise of Fascism, masquerading as Capitalism? You're gonna love Marxism.)
To: kellynla
Bush is more likely to pardon Bill Ayers.
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posted on
01/08/2009 9:52:32 PM PST
by
nickcarraway
(Are the Good Times Really Over?)
To: kellynla
Since Armitage admitted on day one of the investigation that it was he that had leaked her name, and since the CIA confirmed her employment over the phone to Novak (and I don’t think anyone can argue that the CIA is in the habit of outing their undercover agents over the phone), I have to ask what was Fitz investigating between the time he knew it was Armitage and the time he decided to hang Libby. Just what was he investigating all that time.
Fitz is a disgrace. The fact that he’s going after Blagojevich doesn’t change the fact that he is a disgrace.
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posted on
01/08/2009 9:54:51 PM PST
by
marron
To: kellynla
Yes, agree and pardon the two border agents.
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posted on
01/08/2009 10:03:55 PM PST
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: kellynla
P A R D O N
L I B B Y
To: kellynla
I watched about half an hour of the O.J. trial, before I got so bored my eyeballs were falling out of my head. It was Johnny Cochran, asking a witness the same question, slightly reworded, over, and over, and over. It was obvious he was trying to get the witness to contradict himself.
After a few long days of grilling like that, I don't think anyone could survive a perjury conviction. When they're out to get you, they get you.
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posted on
01/08/2009 10:08:54 PM PST
by
FlyVet
To: kellynla
Libby definitely deserves a pardon.
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posted on
01/08/2009 10:47:38 PM PST
by
TheThinker
(Shame and guilt mongering is the Left's favorite tool of control.)
To: marron
I'm happy to see others are also aware of inconsistencies
surrounding Fitzgerald. It is not a revelation to FR members and there has been much written about the politicization of the CIA. That many insiders were very hostile to the President's policies, including the Plames, who worked for the Gore campaign, is not new. That Fitzgerald is a political operative is beyond question. Appointing Podesta to run the CIA is entirely consistent. That may be part of what was behind the restructuring of the intelligence agencies.
Fitz does seem to be a disgrace, and it may not be a ‘fact’ that he is going after Blagojevich. The supposed surveillance tapes may be the equivalent of Craig Livingston's FBI files. They may suggest a variant of “pay-to-play” along the line of “pay-to-stay”. That Fitz could be paid by our justice department to disable a very capable man, Scooter Libby, for two years, crippling his career and condemning him to some years in prison for a crime Fitz knew he didn't commit raises the question of why Fitz has not been charged? This is not about justice but about vicious political power plays, and I don't see how Fitz is on the side of truth and protection of The Constitution, which he swore to uphold and protect. Fie on G.W. Bush if he doesn't correct the misdeed. One must wonder what his enemies have on him.
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posted on
01/08/2009 11:26:52 PM PST
by
Spaulding
(Wagdadbythebay)
To: kellynla
We’ll know soon.
Keeping my fingers crossed...
To: Spaulding
That Fitz could be paid by our justice department to disable a very capable man, Scooter Libby, for two years, crippling his career and condemning him to some years in prison for a crime Fitz knew he didn't commit raises the question of why Fitz has not been charged? Nailed it.
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01/09/2009 12:51:16 AM PST
by
marron
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posted on
01/09/2009 12:55:25 AM PST
by
woofie
To: kellynla
This whole thing was an outrageous miscarriage of justice. The person who should have been prosecuted was the special prosecutor who knew almost from day one that: 1) there had been no law broken because the stupid twit Phlame was not an undercover agent, and 2) that Armitage was the leaker. Another governmental screw up.
To: Beaten Valve
I still have a lot of faith in President Bush and I have a feeling that he will pardon all three of them before he leaves office. Recall that a number of Clinton’s pardons were actually signed on January 19, so President Bush still has plenty of time left to do so.
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posted on
01/09/2009 2:59:31 AM PST
by
srmorton
(Choose life!)
To: kellynla
The Scooter conviction and the whole dragged-out Plame/Wilson & (political hack) Fitzgerald is a justice system disgrace. Likewise the Ramos/Campeon prosecution. President Bush must have the honor to pardon these three innocent political pawns.
To: kellynla
I think Scooters dad donated once to the Repbulican party so Bush won’t pardon him.
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