Stock Popcorn
Anyone else looking forward to the Conyers hearing on the Libby commutation?
WASHINGTON—The Democrat probing President Bush’s decision to erase the prison sentence of a former White House aide said Sunday there is “the suspicion” the aide might have fingered others in the Bush administration if he served time.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers spoke of “the general impression” that Bush last week commuted I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s 2 1/2 year sentence in the CIA leak case to keep Libby quiet. The White House said Conyers’ claim was baseless.
Conyers, D-Mich., has scheduled a committee hearing Wednesday on the matter.
There are some very serious general impressions and suspicions regarding Bush’s exercise of his right to commute and pardon that must be investigated. But I’m looking forward to the review of Clinton’s pardons.
“What we have here—and I think we should put it on the table right at the beginning—is that the suspicion was that if Mr. Libby went to prison, he might further implicate other people in the White House, and that there was some kind of relationship here that does not exist in any of President Clinton’s pardons, nor, according to those that we’ve talked to … is that it’s never existed before, ever,” Conyers said in a broadcast interview Sunday.
No, but I do hope he’ll get into what kind of relationship did exist between Clinton and all those swindlers, drug traffickers and crooked used car dealers from Arkansas that Clinton pardoned. Did he just do it for money or were there deeper bonds of trust, friendship, business or whatever involved?
Meanwhile, somebody get Tony Fratto a raise:
A White House spokesman, Tony Fratto, said in response: “That’s a fairly ridiculous and baseless assertion. It may be impossible to plumb the depths of Chairman Conyers’ ’suspicions’, but we can hope this one is near the bottom.”
This could be the committee member to watch at the big hearing:
“It’s clearly within the authority of the president,” said Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah. “To go after the president on this issue shows a dearth of any opportunity to go after something substantive in this administration. I would prefer that we not waste our time in Congress on these witch hunts and frivolous activities.”
Lowry addresses the constitutional issues with a bonus swipeat Clinton’s non-lowlife dirtball, sorry, I mean higher-profile pardons. Hey Conyers, let’s look at those ones, too!
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:06 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2007
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July 8th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
Gosh, maybe the folks who prosecuted Berger will come in and talk, too. I seem to recall, dimly, that the first time Bush invoked executive privilege was when some Congressman wanted to subpoena documents related to Janet Reno.
July 9th, 2007 at 12:41 am
“Anyone else looking forward to the Conyers hearing on the Libby commutation?”
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July 9th, 2007 at 9:57 am
The Dems are just taking trash to keep things stirred up. They have no intention of actually following through because they know the shitstorm that would descend on them.