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Ty,

It's nice of you to use a picture to get across Burger's post. Did you do that to help Hank? How thoughtful!

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He does remain a convicted felon, on probation, and responsible for a criminal fine. The only thing he avoided was actual jail time.

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Does that mean he can't vote?

Bush could still pardon him, no?

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I'm sure that was negotiated, and that he'll have a soft landing somewhere that will help with the fine.

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he might get disbarred.

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I'm a lot more annoyed now that Paris Hilton did time.

Parental notification laws= pathetic attempts to dissuade people from getting abortions. The hope is that before the abortion takes place, the girl's parents may talk her out of it. Or....the girl won't have one because she's too scared to tell her parents. Plain and simple.

This case makes me sick. Oh, and was there some suggestion that there's a big post abortion risk of regretting it? Cause that's bullshit.

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DC Bar has already suspended him for discipline and non-payment of dues:

I L Libby Jr
Office of the Vice President
Cheif of Staff Room 276
Eisenhower Exec Office Bldg.
Washington DC 20501

Email:
Phone: 202-456-9000
Fax: 202-456-6212

Membership Status: Suspended
Reason for suspension: Discipline and non-payment of dues.
Disciplinary history: None
Date of admission: May 19, 1978

Is he admitted elsewhere?

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This was a well deserved FU to the Democrats! And about time. Hopefully this signals that Bush is back in the saddle. If so, I am betting we see troops in Iran before year's end.

Also, look for that shit-bag Fitzgerald to get Nifonged before this over!

Hey Fitzie and you traitorous Plame-Wilsons, Karl Rove has a message for you:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2.../LibbyFitz.gif

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Bush said Cheney's former aide was not getting off free.

"The reputation he gained through his years of public service and professional work in the legal community is forever damaged," Bush said. "His wife and young children have also suffered immensely. He will remain on probation. The significant fines imposed by the judge will remain in effect. The consequences of his felony conviction on his former life as a lawyer, public servant and private citizen will be long-lasting."


How is that not true of anyone who is convicted of a crime for the first time who is an adult? What asinine reasoning. If that's the case, pretty much every first-time offender should have their sentences commuted.

Commuted.
 

Which is about right in my book.

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Obama:

"This decision to commute the sentence of a man who compromised our national security cements the legacy of an Administration characterized by a politics of cynicism and division, one that has consistently placed itself and its ideology above the law. This is exactly the kind of politics we must change so we can begin restoring the American people's faith in a government that puts the country's progress ahead of the bitter partisanship of recent years."

Um...how exactly did Scooter's false timeframe compromise national security?

Or was Obama referring to Armitage? Or Sandy Berger?

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Wow, what an admission !

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The opinions of the defenders of William Jefferson Clinton notwithstanding, perjury is indeed a crime.

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I believe President clinton made the precedent that if it is important enough for him to win, a President should compromise national security. Not that scooter or bush did anything close to what clinton did with China, but still that only makes the argument stronger.

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Apart from leaking classified information about Valerie Plame? Or are those childhood head injuries catching up with you?

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wait. wasn't the conviction for perjury? did the vast right wing conspiracy hide that he was really convicted for treason?

Poll: does this woman need implants?

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Yes. Obama didn't say he was convicted for leaking -- he said he leaked. Which is true.

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every day my BFF. Penske, leaks next to agents of the republic of Vietnam. That doesn't mean anything was wrong unless there are judges or juries that say it was.

as an aside. Do you cite blogs in your legal briefs?

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Can you really pretend that there is nothing wrong, at all, with Penske's bathroom habits? I mean, you gotta watch the credability thing, right?

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It's a two part deal.

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Are you fucking high? Do you really think Plame's "outing" that compromised a motherfucking thing about our national security? Because if you do I want $300 of what you're smoking, and I'll fly out to get it.

Valerie Plame was NOBODY. Nothing. This whole thing was a political charade and fucking joke and even the Democrats involved snickered and admitted as much. Political theatre. Now we're seeing the second to last act.

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I suppose I should be more bothered about this than I am. I'm not really all that disturbed that Scooter won't do time. If I thought jail would have gotten hom to roll on his boss and his boss's boss, then I'd be pissed. But Scooter is probably more of a stand-up guy than Big Pussy. I don't think he'd have flipped.

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Punishable by what? A fine? Sounds like amnesty to me.

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I think going by "Scooter" as an adult merits jail time.

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Libby didn't deserve jail time and nor did Clinton. I'd also reinstate Clinton's law license. Lying in the context of a political witch hunt is fine in my book. I think Bubba and Scooter are swine. But that is what they are - professional swine, a/k/a politicians.

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Pantsing him in the White House cafeteria, yes. Snickering to his facee every time he is introduced to someone in your presence, definitely. Maybe even a coordinated spitball blitz in a staff meeting. But jail time?

Six Days of the Condor.
 

Dude, maybe she wasn't really on active duty at the time she was outed by Novak, but in the past -- and there is no dispute about this, is there? -- she absolutely had been under cover. And her cover was as an employee of CIA front companies overseas. Then she was outed, and now everyone in the world knows that those foreign companies were CIA fronts, and that the people that she met in foreign lands are all now presumed to have been sources or agents of the Company.

If Al Gore's chief of staff had burned a former undercover CIA agent or analyst or whatever because Bill didn't like the way that her spouse testified against NAFTA or welfare reform or gays in the military, the dude -- and I mean Bill -- would be in Leavenworth.

Who, exactly, among the Democrats invovled, have ever said that it was a "charade" or a "joke"?

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He'd have done more damage leaking the name of Pentagon plumber. She was nobody, and her husband was even less. A pair of attention whores scheming for tickets to Vanity Fair's Oscar party.

The only sillier joke was Ken Starr's pathetic Jim Garrison-like odyssey against the Clintons.

I think Scooter's eventual pardon is a perfect result. Flipping off the whores who engage the system to their political ends seems the natural proper end.

Fuck Patrick Fitzgerald. Humorless goddamned stiff. He can concentrate on wasting our money putting Conrad Black away forever now.

Six Days of the Condor.
 

For God's sake, Bob. The whole Democratic establishment looked at it like some tawdry sideshow. Wilson never had any credibility.

I recall her "outing" was so far after the fact that there was no damage done as a result. Which kind of explains why we never heard about any such substantial collateral damage accruing from this horrible national secrity breach.

The dude would not be in Leavenworth, but as I said, this isn;t partisan. It was awful when done to Clinton and wasteful when done to Libby. Both get a pass in my eyes.

Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?
 

I'm not bothered by the fact that Libby won't do time. Anyone who thinks that he wasn't following orders is nuts. And he has paid and is paying a price for what he did. I think that commuting his sentence is the least that W could do.

That puts the blame right where it should be, and the Administration should pay the price for what it did. Because Bush and Cheney disliked what Wilson said -- and I am not saying that Wilson isn't a self-serving blowhard -- they burned his wife and everyone that she had ever worked with undercover, and all of the sources and agents that her cover companies had ever dealt with -- merely to discredit him. The only comparison I can think of is the break-in of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's shrink by Nixon's people in order to find some way of discrediting the leak of the Pentagon Papers.

Six Days of the Condor.
 

Wilson is not the issue. Plame is.

Who would we hear it from, Sebby? You expect that appointees of the Administration would tell us that its actions damaged national security? Please.

Bottom line -- the Administration burned Plame to get Wilson, and didn't care about any collateral damage that burning her caused. All the self-serving, after-the-fact, rationalization in the world doesn't change that fact. And Clinton got roasted for firing the White House Travel Office -- how would TVRWC react to Bill burning a non-official cover? Ask Hank -- he posted something the other day that accused Bill of killing Barbara Olsen on 9/11.

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Oh, you mean the left-wing, made-up stuff. Right.

Whereas Libby was convicted of perjury, telling - under oath - different time frames of certain events.

Russert was guilty of the same offense, but at least Fitzgerald spared him the indignity of a trial

Six Days of the Condor.
 

The Senate panel determined that Plame recommended Wilson for the gig that served as the initial platform for Wilson's lies, so I beg to differ.

Speaking of jokes
 

What would Clinton have done if a former member of Reagan's cabinet stole [and destroyed] classfied documents from the National Archives?

Six Days of the Condor.
 

What damage Bob? What damage? Find me a blog that outlines the valuable operatives we lost. Oh, there is none. The best you'll find is some partisan rag overplaying the non-existent damages into some sort of loss. If there was real damage we'd have heard of it in the national media for years. The damages were always the missing part of this story. This is akin to a trial where you've got really good liability and No Fucking Damages. Libby got a light sentence, the equivalent of the type of judgment you or I would get bringing a solid liability case with an illusory loss to be "recovered."

You mean to tell me the Admin somehow concealed the extent of the damages? Bullshit. Plame told everyone how many important networks were lost. The problem was there weren't any.

I'm not Hank. I think this sort of shit was wrong when it was done to Clinton as well. If I could, I'd jail Ken Starr.

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He'd have let it slide because he was smarter than everyone in DC right now.

Six Days of the Condor.
 

Whatever. There are thousands of slimebags sitting in jail right now that deserve a walk more than Scooter Libby does.

I should have known that a man that gave George Tenet a Presidential Medal of Freedom for intelligence work leading up to Iraq would also give a walk to Libby. Accountability for fuck ups--especially for fuck ups having to do with this god awful war--isn't really the calling card of this administration.

Six Days of the Condor.
 

73% of Americans Unable to Believe This Shit

The change has come, she's under my thumb.
 

I don't defend what Sandy Berger did, and I don't think that prosecuting him was a partisan witch-hunt.

Your turn -- why is it ok to burn Plame to get Wilson? What about every one else who ever had any dealings with Brewster-Jennings (the company that, thanks to the decsion to smear Wilson, everyone now knows was a CIA front)?