After hearing the sentence of Scooter Libby my first thought was how insufferable the gloating would be among the liberal bloggers. To be fair, the judge has a history of delivering harsh sentences and he was put into position by the Bush family. (By the way – another African American put into a powerful position by the Bush family.) Seeing as liberals should be happy with the reading of the conviction (30 months in jail and a 250K fine), it seems that liberals finally have a reason to love the Bush family!
Obviously, this sentence was too harsh. In fact, no crime was committed originally since we now know that the actual whistle-blower of Plame was an anti-war ranter. So what was Scooter Libby lying about and obstructing?
What gets me the most are the headlines worded like “Libby Convicted in CIA Leak Case.” The more appropriate headline should be “Libby Convicted in Perjury-Trap Case.”
With Bush’s idiotic response to the immigration ordeal, he indeed owes us another energizing move. The response should be overwhelming to the President to do the only right thing anyone in his position could do and pardon Scooter Libby from pointlessly spending 30 months in jail.
Idiotic Liberal policies have led to easier punishments on hardened criminals. We have judges all over the country giving convicted child molesters months in jail and small probabation charges. We had a bogus case that served no purpose than to appeal to the far-left who feels this qualifies as a sure legacy of corruption connected to the Bush administration.
Libby should be pardoned and it should happen now.
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Hello.
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Happy June.
eric
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Yeah, isn’t funny that Fitzgerald already knew that Armitage had leaked the name while he still went after Libby?
Prosecutorial misconduct.
Hmmm, I wonder how the Jefferson scandal will be portrayed in the media?
Now Devil Dog, I’m sure it was just a misunderstanding that the man had 10′s of thousands of dollars in his freezer.
I do agree that Fitzgerald should lose his job over the Libby issue. I’m outraged as a taxpayer. I still don’t understand what it is that he supposedly did – what was there to lie and obstruct about?
This was all nonsense to appeal to the left who EXPECTED something to come out of indicting a ham sandwich.
Why are you outraged? Libby played a role in outing a CIA agent, and lied about it. He was convicted by a jury of his peers. Why should Fitzgerald lose his job? Because he only prosecuted Libby?
Chen we all know now that Richard Armitage had informed Fitzgerald that he was the one who leaked her name. Moreover; Plame was never officially labeled a “covert” agent. What “crime” did Fitzgerald lie and obstruct about? You’re right, Reggie Walton is an appointee of Bush who appropriately sentenced a man convicted of perjury to a sentence. The question is, why was he ever charged? Who was he trying to protect by lying and obstructing? Richard Armitage? A critic of the Iraq war?
Steve // Jun 11th 2007 at 8:44 am
I assume you mean Libby?
Fitzgerald doesn’t need to prove that there was a crime committed under the various statues to prove that Libby lied under oath. Those two things are mutually exclusive. The way I understood it, Fitz was unable to build a solid enough case that the leakers a)intentionally leaked the info and b)said leakers knew that the info was classified. It is very hard to prove these things, especially when you have people lying to you. That doesn’t mean that a crime wasn’t committed, it just means that Fitz didn’t have enough to bring it to trial.
Here’s an example: A group of guys go hunting over the weekend. Sometime on Saturday, there is a fatal shooting and a member of another hunting party is killed. The police investigate to determine whether or not this was homicide, manslaughter, an accident, etc. During the course of the investigation, one member of the hunting party keeps giving conflicting information, and the investigator isn’t able to determine with any degree of certainty that this was in fact a homicide. The investigator knows that something is fishy, and keeps calling for testimony. But at the end of the day, with all avenues exhausted, and no further evidence available, they are unable to prove that it was anything other than an accident. But he IS able to determine, however, that the member of the hunting party was lying to him, so he prosecutes him on it. Does that mean a murder didn’t happen? No, it just means they didn’t have enough evidence to prove it. But they did have enough evidence to make a case of purjury against the one guy. Make sense?
What you guys should really be asking yourselves is “Why did Libby lie?” and “Why the heck did an op-ed from a little-known amdassador cause such an uproar in the VP’s office?” and “Why the heck are these guys playing fast and loose with classified information concerning matters of national security and telling reporters about it?” and “Does this have anything to do with forged uranium documents and the fact that we didn’t find any WMD’s in Iraq?”
Stuff like that.
Libby didn’t lie. He failed to recall certain aspects of certain conversations.
Moreover; “classified” doesn’t cut it! He NEVER referred to her as COVERT. It’s not a crime to reveal the status of someone who is merely classified. It is if they are covert.
Up until three weeks ago (just in time for Plame’s “memoir” book to come out) Fitzgerald NEVER uttered the word “covert.”
How about her husband writing an op-ed to the NY Times? How about appearing in Vanity Fair? How about her husband accepting a six figure book deal?
These are hardly the people, Chen, that are crying and begging for us to leave them alone.
I think the President should pardon Scooter Libby. As I said, liberals wanted Arnold to pardon Tookie Williams. They legislate anti-death crime penalties from the Supreme Court (Warren and Berger courts) and hand out tiny sentences to child molesters as long as they are willing to “get help.”
Walton is a tough judge and I applaud what he did in the respect that crimes do need to be taken more seriously in this country. But Scooter Libby’s conviction serves no justice to humanity other than liberals who will continue to go around acting as if outing Plame was a crime to begin with.
Even though Richard Armitage admitted to doing it, and for some reason – he’s not been charged.