Verdict: Still a Crock
Libby found guilty of lying. Still waiting for someone to find Fitzgerald guilty of wasting $2 million worth of taxpayers’ money investigating a non-crime. I’d settle for the Associated Press to simply point out it wasn’t a crime.
The case cost Cheney his most trusted adviser, and the trial revealed Cheney’s personal obsession with criticism of the war’s justification.
Hard to blame him, when you see what kind of lies and distortions are put forward as truth. Like the idea, established by a polite chat with Niger officials, that no, no Iraqis ever came looking for uranium there.
Trial testimony made clear that President Bush secretly declassified a portion of the prewar intelligence estimate that Cheney quietly sent Libby to leak to Judith Miller of The New York Times in 2003 to rebut criticism by ex-ambassador Joseph Wilson. Bush, Cheney and Libby were the only three people in the government aware of the effort.
The Associated Press, among others, is extremely excited to be able to definitively confirm that the Bush administration practices politics … sometimes even in response to political attacks.
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said the verdict closed the nearly four-year investigation into how the name of Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, and her classified job at the CIA were leaked to reporters in 2003.
Classified job. That is very cute. It appears to suggest that the mentioned of Valerie Plame’s name and postion at the CIA was somehow wrong. Which raises the question. Why does a perjury conviction close this four-year investigation? Where’s the charge of disclosing classified information. Let’s get on with the trial of Richard Armitage! Gutless wonder allowed a newspaper reporter to sit in prison and hundreds of thousands in taxpayer dollars to go down the drain rather than come forward and clear this thing up.
Oh, right. Never mind.
Wilson: Wife wept when she heard the verdict. Do you think she finally figured out that sending her husband on a cockamamie intelligence-gathering mission was a bad career move?
Surber: quickie book in the pipeline.
Firedoglake’s been drinking. Tremendous amount of moderately entertaining nonsense from the people who actually sat through all seven weeks of … the trial about nothing.
Gaypatriot goes into some detail about the lack of somethingness, not least of which was Wilson’s claim of Bush mendacity.
Topics: pols, shameless opportunism
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:09 am on Wednesday, March 7, 2007
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March 7th, 2007 at 2:17 am
Libby Found Guilty
I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby [Found] Guilty on Four of Five Counts in CIA Leak Trial WASHINGTON — Former White House aide I. Lewis Scooter Libby was found guilty Tuesday of four of five counts of perjury, lying to the FBI
March 7th, 2007 at 2:19 am
Bill’s Nibbles // Open Post — 2007.03.07
Some Bill’s Bites posts, some things I excerpted and linked but I’m sending you to the original post. I may rearrange the order of the items within this post as I add new things that I think belong above the
March 7th, 2007 at 10:28 am
I still fail to understand how this can be justified as a worse crime than what Sandy Berger did by stealing and destroying classified documents. They might as well paint a big red sign on it: Politically Motivated Witch Hunt.
March 7th, 2007 at 10:28 am
By the Democrats, I might add.
March 7th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
I said much the same thing, Rebecca, in a post before I got to this one. Disgusting.
They mention how the verdict affected Ms. Plame. Nothing about Libby’s family?
March 7th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
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March 7th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
Meh. Clinton didn’t do any time for a blatant perjury.
March 7th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
The lesson for conservatives should be — never ever talk to the MSM, under any circumstance. Bush should have handled the whole thing by requiring Tenant to make a press release explaining that Ms. Plame was to blame, she had violated anti-nepotism rules by having the agency hire her husband. whose newspaper article on the subject was mendacious.