Bush commutes Libby's jail sentence

[rhod]

Considering the untold millions that disappeared down the Pentagon budget black hole, I'm sure that Cheney's gang have a nice "contingency fund" squirelled away somewhere to cover minor annoyances like court fines, even though quarter of a mill is chicken-feed to people like Libby.

 

[TomUS]

Bush took care of Scooter, but in a different way than he had said when the investigation began.

President Bush said Tuesday he welcomes a Justice Department investigation into who revealed the classified identity of a CIA operative.

"If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is," Bush told reporters at an impromptu news conference during a fund-raising stop in Chicago, Illinois. "If the person has violated law, that person will be taken care of.
"I welcome the investigation. I am absolutely confident the Justice Department will do a good job.

"I want to know the truth," the president continued. "Leaks of classified information are bad things."

Bush said he has told his administration to cooperate fully with the investigation and asked anyone with knowledge of the case to come forward.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/30/wilson.cia/

Scooter was an active instigator of the Iraq invasion & will be well "taken care of" for life. He was a signatory to this infamous document.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm

 

[keicar]

As far as the Uk is concerned I think only the Queen has the power to pardon ... though constitutionally it's done on the recommendation of the Home Sec / Prime Minister.

I'm no monarchist, indeed some of the pomp and fawning makes me spew. but I'm rapidly comming to the conclusion the fact that absolute power is in the name of someone other than an elected politician is no bad thing.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I'm no monarchist, indeed some of the pomp and fawning makes me spew. but I'm rapidly comming to the conclusion the fact that absolute power is in the name of someone other than an elected politician is no bad thing.

But what if Charles becomes king, and decides to rename the country Tamponia?

 

[detective-boy]

I'm no monarchist, indeed some of the pomp and fawning makes me spew. but I'm rapidly comming to the conclusion the fact that absolute power is in the name of someone other than an elected politician is no bad thing.

I think the last few years have demonstrated some advantages to the House of Lords, too.

 

[Jonti]

Too theatrical for my taste, but this covers the ground, and does it very well:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19588942 - rant from Olbermann.


It is a constitutional issue, and if Mears can't grasp the scale of the issue - as he demonstrate's by trying to compare with Clinton - it's no wonder the USA is so totally fucked up.

I accuse you, Mr. Bush, of lying this country into war.

I accuse you of fabricating in the minds of your own people, a false implied link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11.

I accuse you of firing the generals who told you that the plans for Iraq were disastrously insufficient.

I accuse you of causing in Iraq the needless deaths of 3,586 of our brothers and sons, and sisters and daughters, and friends and neighbors.

I accuse you of subverting the Constitution, not in some misguided but sincerely-motivated struggle to combat terrorists, but to stifle dissent.

I accuse you of fomenting fear among your own people, of creating the very terror you claim to have fought.

I accuse you of exploiting that unreasoning fear, the natural fear of your own people who just want to live their lives in peace, as a political tool to slander your critics and libel your opponents.

I accuse you of handing part of this Republic over to a Vice President who is without conscience, and letting him run roughshod over it.

And I accuse you now, Mr. Bush, of giving, through that Vice President, carte blanche to Mr. Libby, to help defame Ambassador Joseph Wilson by any means necessary, to lie to Grand Juries and Special Counsel and before a court, in order to protect the mechanisms and particulars of that defamation, with your guarantee that Libby would never see prison, and, in so doing, as Ambassador Wilson himself phrased it here last night, of becoming an accessory to the obstruction of justice.

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[slaar]

I think the last few years have demonstrated some advantages to the House of Lords, too.

I agree.

 

[Prince Rhyus]

...says it all really