Innocent! Innocent! Innocent!
I can't help it ... she's too lovely to go behind bars. I would acquit if only she'd have dinner with me at Nathan's in Georgetown. [I know I will be flamed for this.]
Well, somebody had to post pictures ...
Go throw a nickle down a well and wish upon a star.
Republicans are BALL-LESS DWEEBS and such a scenario will NEVER happen.
Well written article.
If he wouldn’t pardon the two Border Patrol agents that got railroaded into 12 & 13 years of prison... oh, wait. I forgot. He was DRIVING that railroad train.
Prosecute Plame?
ABSOLUTELY...however, we know that will NEVER happen!
Big secret: top managers, generally, have no concept of ‘loyalty’ except as something they can punish their subordinates for not having.
As difficult as it has been, I have been trying real hard to stick with Bush. Now however, the immigration thing really made it hard to swallow, but if he lets Libby go to the slammer, I am gone.
WHY is Bush so sensitive about the subject that friends can’t even bring it up?
Several major points:
1. Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald – a Clinton appointee
2. Judge Walton....“the trial did not prove Libby knew that [Valerie] Plame worked in an undercover capacity.”
3. ...trial did prove, beyond any doubt whatsoever,Libby was not the government official who leaked her name
Now what’s wrong with this picture. People are so concerned about sending the wrong man to jail. Where’s the outcry? Sending Libby to jail would tantamount to a travesty of justice.
Reason to hope? As suggested elsewhere on FR, a presidential pardon would not remove the stain of this conviction.
Let them exhaust their appeals.
Severity suggests desperation.
President Thompson will pardon Scooter. He just needs to drag the appeals process out until the inauguration.
But even if she didn't send him (she did)it was positively criminal for her to enjoy the show while her husband lied about an agency mission on every tv station.
Her own husband, that's what makes the idea of her "covert" status ridiculous. How the hell could anyone expect their being covert to protect them from their husband going on a public world tour shouting that he went on a secret mission???
Innocent! Innocent! Innocent!
I can't help it ... she's too lovely to go behind bars. I would acquit if only she'd have dinner with me at Nathan's in Georgetown. [I know I will be flamed for this.]
Well, somebody had to post pictures ...
I doubt it. Mr. "straight arrow" prosecutor will apply the Clinton Rule - Democrats are not prosecuted for perjury.
Uh, what the heck is this supposed to mean? Libby is not in jail, and his sentencing is under appeal. Why would the President want to be bombarded with 'Are you gonna pardon him, huh? Are ya? Are ya?' I don't blame him for not wanting to talk about it with everyone at this point.
Me thinks this author had a few too many caffeine drinks before writing this.
Bump for later
Just out of curiosity: What was the make-up of the Washington, DC jury? Isn’t the town itself almost all Democrat? Are any Republicans EVER elected there? If this is the case, can it be said that Libby was tried by a jury of his peers? If he was tried by a jury that was predisposed to convict him for being a Republican and serving a Republican president, the outcome of the trial is not surprising.
In case you don't speak Valley Girl, get a translator before you go there.
“Prosecute Plame?”
If only to watch Chris Matthews head POP on nat’l tv.
Of course Plame lied, and she lied under oath to Congress. I’ll let others agonize over whether her “promise” to tell the truth constitutes a legal oath. She raised her hand, and then proceeded to lie to Congress. If Congress doesn’t consider that to be perjury, then perjury itself is meaningless.