Posted on 03/07/2007 6:29:42 AM PST by .cnI redruM
Cross Posted: THE MINORITY REPORT
I lack the inside baseball connections to know who Mel Sembler is, but I’m convinced the man is a great American. He has taken the personal initiative to rise up against the malignant injustice of our nation’s latest judicial witch-hunt. In the letter below, he requests our help.
“As Scooter’s lawyer, Ted Wells, said today, we are all disappointed in the verdict. His attorneys will seek a new trial and if that’s denied, they will appeal. The defense team fervently believes in Scooter’s innocence and intends to continue fighting to establish Scooter’s innocence.
Speaking for the Libby Legal Defense Trust, I can tell you that we also believe in Scooter’s innocence and will continue to fight this fight until the fight is won. Scooter is a good man and a distinguished public servant who has been wrongly accused.
Former Senator Fred Thompson, a member of the Advisory Committee for the Libby Legal Defense Trust has graciously offered to host another fundraiser for the Libby Legal Defense Trust. We will be providing additional details in the coming days. Additionally, we have also had a new Advisory Committee Member join the Libby Legal Defense Trust -- Ambassador Charles Heimbold, Jr., former Ambassador to Sweden and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company.
Again, we thank all of you for your support of Scooter.”
-Ambassador Mel Sembler and the Advisory Committee
The Legal Defense Fund for “Scooter” Libby offers us the greatest show of GOP unity since before Theodore Roosevelt ran for office, via The Bull Moose Party. It includes both wings of the party. The advisory panel includes luminaries that span the gamut from Reaganaut to RINO, and all points in between. They’d have to call up Lincoln Chaffee to make this effort more diverse.
As the editors at National Review put it so eloquently.
There should have been no referral, no special counsel, no indictments, and no trial. The “CIA-leak case” has been a travesty. A good man has paid a very heavy price for the Left's fevers, the media's scandal-mongering, and President Bush's failure to unify his own administration. Justice demands that Bush issue a pardon and lower the curtain on an embarrassing drama that shouldn’t have lasted beyond its opening act.
More to the point, President Bush should not even have to issue said pardon.
We should labor with the vim and vigor of Hercules to have this thrown out and to have Patrick ‘Nifong’ Fitzgerald publicly humiliated for his leviathan overreach and his troglodytic desire to hang Scooter Libby’s scalp from his belt. The prosecution, it’s cheerleaders and the bandwagon bloggers and journalists who egged this miscarriage of justice along deserve the most condign public embarrassment.
Let the record show they were wrong. Let the record show that they knew they were wrong but proceeded anyway, in the name of ideological zealotry and purblind hatred. Let the record show they were mendacious and vile. Support The Scooter Libby Legal Defense Fund today.
I derive no personal benefit from this whatsoever, and the charity I solicit on behalf of is very easy to research and check out.
FInally, and most importantly, if the Kossackks can come for Scooter today, they can ruin any other honest public servant tommorrow. This must be overturned!
Spell check is not your friend.
How many points are you taking off his grade this semester?
When is someone going to ask for the cost of this miscarriage of justice to the American taxpayer?
The lesson learned here is to take invoke Fifth Amendment rights immediately and never answer a single question about anything. If Libby had done that from the start, Fitzgerald could not have brought an indictment.
I see Fred Thompson is heading this up....good for him.
True. If he'd really obstructed (in)justice, he'd have never gotten into trouble. $%^& like this makes me need to look at map and make sure this is still really The United States.
I hope Fred Thompson runs for President. I hope Fred Thompson wears a "Free Scooter Libby" T-shirt every time he makes a campaign stop.
Send a letter to the President...let's jam the server!!! comments@whitehouse.gov
Did it yesterday.
That so called trial was a railroad job. Wilson is the one who should be in jail, along with Fitzgerald.
Thanks. It is done.
Put the heat on your Senators to demand an immediate pardon for the three. Flood the White House comment line with your calls....202-456-1111 and e-mail President Bush: president@whitehouse.gov
Take Action now!
Free Libby AFTER pardoning Ramos and Compean, Mr. President.
It ain't gonna happen!! The border patrol fiasco should have been taken care of by now by the prez. I don't think he has the courage or the nerve to do it! Sorry to say...:(
It ain't gonna happen!! The border patrol fiasco should have been taken care of by now by the prez. I don't think he has the courage or the nerve to do it! Sorry to say...:(
This decision shows why DC has become a bed of illiterate liberal idiots.
This decision is more dangerous to White Conservative Males than Ben Laden and al Qaeda. Now we can be found guilty for any imaginary crime the liberals come up with.
Sandy Berger walks with an admitted act of theft of top secret documents and treason. Libby is charged and found guilty with an imaginary crime.
Fred Thompson is the only Republican I would enthusiastically support for POTUS out of the current crop.
I'd like to know when the Libby case is going to get compared to Sandy (pants) the Burglar's case.
Sandy Pants gets community service for treason. Libby is looking at serious jail time for ?????
Don't count on it anytime soon. The dark side is busy making a movie about the Libby trial...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6425311.stm
If he lied under aoth then he should not be free, unless of you course you think Bill Clinton's lying under oath was not that big of a deal either.
All this guy had to do was tell the truth...if he lied then oh well.
Done!
Nevertheless...
We are a Nation of laws that apply to everyone. He had his day in court and was found guilty. He has his appeal.
Other than that...he is serving his punishment. He should not have lied. My political ideology has no affect on how I see it.
I hate say it but Libby is a piece o' crap that deserves what he gets.
1. His first mistake was defending Mark Rich and working to get that scum bag a pardon from Clinton. Bad Karma has a funny way of coming back to bite you in the ass.
2. As a life long Lawyer and Politician, and a liberal one at that, he knew what the game was and what a witch hunt looks like.
3. Given his background he probably couldn't tell the difference between a LIE, OBSTRUCTION, and Covering his own ass.
4. He wasn't protecting the VP - he probably thought he could've been the original leaker (unless he knew Armitage was the source first, and if he did why would he try to protect the State dept?).
5. Rove was smart enough to not touch the Wilson / Plame thing and give the story more legs than it deserved. The press is fickle and the Bush way of dealing with them is to not add fuel to a fire (even when it benefits you in the short term). The Bush/Rove knew the anti-war crowd wouldn't give a damn about who sent Wilson or any facts about if what he said could hold water.
6. He should have pleaded the 5th if he thought he might implicate himself.
7. He let his lawyers sell "poor fall guy, victim of the evil Bush Administration" story to the press & jury.
8. He gets what is due to him. He has stained the presidency with his incompetency and deceit.
"Send a letter to the President...let's jam the server!!! comments@whitehouse.gov"
Thank you. I have done as you suggested.
Clinton got away with obstruction of justice and perjury. All those guys at the top, regardless of party, think they can get away with the same.
That said, this is a blatant attempt to make an example of a Republican close to the Vice President and give the illusion that the system works, that "no one is above the law." Hogwash.
Let's get real here: when the FBI comes calling to have you answer questions, keep your mouth shut if you suspect in any way your answers could be used to incriminate you...it's called the Fifth Amendment. If Mr. Libby just shrugged his shoulders and said he didn't remember and showed them the door, they would have got nothing. Instead he told some story, and paid dearly for it. Not to mention those reporter-witnesses may well have perjured themselves.
That's not to say that I agree with the verdict, it was a railroading by a biased media jury and it should be overturned on appeal. The media themselves have their hands really deep in this, and when the truth is known, it will be their Watergate.
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