Scooter Libby doesn't have to go to jail




ready, set, argue. !!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cia_leak_trial;_ylt=AlYA50nhqa0ZTlQxV.2BA5Ws0NUE

[Edited on July 2, 2007 at 6:05 PM. Reason : link]

7/2/2007 6:03:26 PM

Will the dems in congress actually have balls or will they cave?

7/2/2007 6:18:56 PM

wtf is congress supposed to do about this?

7/2/2007 6:41:59 PM

bitch and moan and complain and say they are going to do something to stop this then come up with nothing.

7/2/2007 6:45:04 PM

^ winner

7/2/2007 6:53:34 PM

We *all* knew this was going to happen...

Libby probably knows so much they didn't have any other choice but to let him out.

7/2/2007 7:09:00 PM

Let's see...

Clinton completely pardoned:

- 16 members of Puerto Rico FALN terrorist group.
- Drug trafficker Carlos Vignali.
- Fugitive Marc Rich: Iraqi oil-for-food kickback middleman and tax evader.
- Susan McDougal: who refused to testify against him.
- Dan Rostenkowski: Convicted Corrupt congressman who helped push through Clinton's tax increases.
- Melvin Reynolds: Convicted on 12 counts of sexual assault, bank fraud and obstruction of justice.
- Roger Clinton: His half-brother on drug charges.

Lame-duck presidents are notorious for controversal pardons.

7/3/2007 12:16:22 AM

^ careful now... lot of Clinton love around here. not from me though.

[Edited on July 3, 2007 at 1:19 AM. Reason : ]

7/3/2007 1:18:36 AM

Quote :

""My decision to commute his prison sentence leaves in place a harsh punishment for Mr. Libby. The reputation he gained through his years of public service and professional work in the legal community is forever damaged," Bush said in a statement"

Being less popular is harsh enough, without throwing jail in the mix too anyways.

7/3/2007 6:41:14 AM

i can probably guess the 3 or 4 private equity firms that will offer this guy a job

7/3/2007 10:25:00 AM

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"Let's see... Clinton completely pardoned: - 16 members of Puerto Rico FALN terrorist group. - Drug trafficker Carlos Vignali. - Fugitive Marc Rich: Iraqi oil-for-food kickback middleman and tax evader. - Susan McDougal: who refused to testify against him. - Dan Rostenkowski: Convicted Corrupt congressman who helped push through Clinton's tax increases. - Melvin Reynolds: Convicted on 12 counts of sexual assault, bank fraud and obstruction of justice. - Roger Clinton: His half-brother on drug charges. Lame-duck presidents are notorious for controversal pardons."

Those may or may not be true, I wonder where you copied and posted that from. But that makes no bearing on this case. Two wrongs don't make a right.

7/3/2007 10:35:56 AM

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"June 2004 - "if there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated the law, the person will be taken care of.""

well...... Libby is "taken care of", i guess

7/3/2007 10:37:14 AM

^^
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_by_a_United_States_president
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_by_Bill_Clinton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_by_George_W._Bush

7/3/2007 10:39:50 AM

aha ford pardoned nixon, tokyo rose and robert e lee

quite a trio

7/3/2007 11:28:40 AM

Robert E. Lee. Wow. I guess he was just itching to pardon someone.

Quote :

"Two wrongs don't make a right."

For sure. I think they were just trying to curb the inevitable rabble from the left.

7/3/2007 11:42:25 AM

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"Two wrongs don't make a right"

You missed my point, I think. I'm not trying to make a right from two wrongs....I'm saying:

Quote :

"Lame-duck presidents are notorious for controversal pardons."

More Clinton:
pardoned rep. Mel Reynolds who was convicted of having sex with 1 16 year old campaign worker. Also pornography and bank fraud.
Henry Cisneros: Clinton's HUD secretary, convicted for lying to the FBI.

George HW Bush: Pardoned two of the Iran-Contra participants.

Jimmy Carter pardoned:
- All the Vietnam Draft Dodgers.
- Peter of Peter Paul & Mary after he served 3 months of a 3 year prison sentence for making sexual advances on a 14 year girl in his hotel room.

Prepare yourselves for Bush's bevy of pardons as he leaves office. He may pardon Cheney and Gonzales proactively.

Make sure you spread your outrage around evenly.

7/3/2007 1:01:45 PM

Bush seems to have already pardoned a number of cocaine dealers.

7/3/2007 1:17:26 PM

Quote :

"George W Bush: June 2004 - "if there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated the law, the person will be taken care of."

Quote :

"agentlion: well...... Libby is "taken care of", i guess"

wins the thread.



[Edited on July 3, 2007 at 1:35 PM. Reason : ]

7/3/2007 1:34:49 PM

7/3/2007 1:36:53 PM

He was a fall guy in the first place. Not that he's innocent but I'd bet there were a few people that played a bigger role in it than he did.

7/3/2007 2:41:15 PM

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"Make sure you spread your outrage around evenly. "

Yea, I'm so furious about what happened 8 years ago, lemme tell ya. It is equal to how furious I am now, with the present day administration, and all their other fuck ups

7/3/2007 2:45:10 PM

CLINTON DID IT

7/3/2007 3:51:12 PM

1) i don't know why anyone is surprised by this.
2) president has every right to do so. ford pardoned nixon.
3) libby going to jail doesn't hold anyone accountable, not even him really. why isn't fitz investigating the white house? that's what is really important here

7/3/2007 5:00:38 PM

it's not like he killed vince foster

7/3/2007 5:05:31 PM

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"well...... Libby is "taken care of", i guess"

except that libby probably isn't the one who leaked Plame's name, so...

7/3/2007 5:45:48 PM

ok, well how nice of the President to decide that for everybody. We should just send all federal court cases stright to him to decide now. It would save a lot of time and money to just bypass judge and jury system.

of course, now the President is available to spend his time searching for the "real perpetrator", right? You know, kind of like O.J. looking for the real killer.

7/3/2007 7:31:55 PM

what the hell does the title of this thread mean??

7/3/2007 8:29:07 PM

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"it's not like he killed vince foster"

ahahahaha


ftw

7/3/2007 9:44:40 PM

Some of you will probably roll your eyes at this if you know anything about Olbermann's special comments. But he delivered another good one last night

http://www.crooksandliars.com/Media/Download/18986/1/Countdown-SpecialComment-Libby.wmv

7/4/2007 11:23:08 AM

that looks like chris matthews to me...

but yeah, he tore that Kate O'Brien a new asshole.

7/4/2007 2:19:11 PM

Strange, not sure what the deal is with the links on that site. You gotta scroll down the page a little to see the part about Olbermann. And the direct link there works. Not sure why copy and paste doesn't.

7/4/2007 2:21:52 PM

DUKE, we need to lock this thread, please.

the discussion of Libby's trial, predictions of pardons, the guilty verdict, subsequent appeals, and the latest commutation have been going on for quite some time right here:

message_topic.aspx?topic=464986&page=4

not only has the above-mentioned thread been going on for quite some time, it also doesnt have a completely retarded and meaningless title.

thanks

7/4/2007 2:58:05 PM