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Scooter Libby Sentence Commuted

aplusmnt

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I say who cares, and what cover up? It was common knowledge she worked for the CIA. No law was broken. The only law broken was Scooter either lying or having a bad memory and accused of lying.

What is the big cover up? Just a little revenge politics happening, only difference in this case and all the things the Dem's do is the Dems and Media have such a hatred for Bush that they blew it out of proportion.

It would be hard to pick which story was over done in the last year in the media, Anna Nicole smith's death and babies custody battle or the Scooter Libby trial.

Any good reporter with $1,000.00 in his pocket, a lap top computer, library card and the ability to type WWW.Google.com could find ten stories more pressing and more of a dis justice in Washington D.C. than the Scooter Libby story. Only problem is they could not get the broad media coverage to run with it unless it involved Bush and his Gang.
 

passin thru

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If we take Clinton's perjury actions as a baseline.....................just how does this even register...............................
 

Steve

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Steve wrote:


but the fact remains,...the special counsel knew from day one of his task that it was Armatage....he with-held that information,...and obstructed justice.

Had he done his job it would have been a one day investigation,..a press release,.. and more then likely no book deal...


There I disagree... In many criminal cases you have folks coming forward- making admissions or false confessions- for many different reasons...Sometimes its relatives or associates trying to lead you away from the true perpetrator, and sometimes its just some nut, looking for their moment of fame- or whatever...A good example is the fella that has tryed to confess to the Jon Benet Ramsey death......

An admission alone is worthless- and the investigation needs to go forward to find the facts and the evidence that can show it is a true confession- and that the circumstances/facts existed to make the admission/confession plausible/capable...And I know no prosecuters that put a lot of stake in a confession alone- as they can change as time goes on and are impeachable...The reason the need to still find witnesses, and factual and circumstantial evidence, that can prove or disprove the confession and the illegal act itself......

The prosecuter would have been derilict in his duty if he'd have taken the first admission that came forward- without thoroughly looking to ascertain that it was indeed true and that there was no one else involved....

but the fact remains....the Special prosecutor knew from day one..and totally ignored that "fact".

seems we have the same result in the duke lacrosse case...had both these guys not wanted to spend a year or two in the lime-light,(and not to mention millions)....they would have wrapped this up and the "facts" would have prevailed and justice could have been served.

I see your point....Armatage's confession should have been investigated,..not ignored,...hidden,..kept secret,..and in effect justice obstructed,...for over three years....had the special prosecutor done his assigned task....
 
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Yep Steve-- but it seems as years pass and new administrations roll thru our government and politicians get less transparent and hide more and more in the shadows- and back room deals...

If we had honest open leadership in D.C. the public wouldn't even have to be taking these folks to court to try and get the transparency, which we shouldn't have to since we are their employers and they are/should be accountable to the US public and taxpayer who is paying their salaries....

An article I read today says this whole Flame/Libby affair mostly comes about because of an internal government battle between the CIA and the GW administration-and CIA's wish to stay out of Iraq, while Cheney was pushing for any excuse to get Saddam- which doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling when accurate intelligence from around the world is so needed in this day and age....

This deal with Cheney saying the Vice Presidency is a separate entity of government- and not answerable to anyone as either executive or legislative- bothers me and could create a major Constitutional question...

And it scares the hell out of me everytime the Supreme Court gets a chance to stick their nose into and chance to rewrite the Constitution...
 

Steve

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And it scares the hell out of me everytime the Supreme Court gets a chance to stick their nose into and chance to rewrite the Constitution...

It scares me any time anyone wants to stick their nose into our Constitution.
 

Steve

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but it seems as years pass and new administrations roll thru our government and politicians get less transparent and hide more and more in the shadows- and back room deals...

term limits would solve most of that....line item veto would take care of the rest....

I think every American should "demand" term limits.....and would if they knew half the crap our politicians pulled.
 
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Steve said:
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but it seems as years pass and new administrations roll thru our government and politicians get less transparent and hide more and more in the shadows- and back room deals...

term limits would solve most of that....line item veto would take care of the rest....

I think every American should "demand" term limits.....and would if they knew half the crap our politicians pulled.

I buy into that 100%......
 

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