Posted on 06/05/2007 4:29:19 AM PDT by prairiebreeze
I am livid at the difference in treatment of Sandy Berger and Scooter Libby. Fitzgerald himself should be prosecuted IMO for wasting taxpayer money (million$) and subjecting so many people to unnecessary legal expenses and to smearing reputations.
And since he is an (R).......it's obviously a criminal mind.
Our press are the criminals.
Perjury isn’t a farce, no matter what the case was behind it. But given the circumstances I do hope Libby gets a relatively light punishment.
Libby will get a pardon as soon as Fred Thompson is elected. But to get a pardon you have to admit you were guilty, so I don’t know if he’ll accept one.
This is simply an outrage.
You may be right. It would certainly emphasize the outrageously political nature of the case.
If the judge is a dem, clinton appointee, Scooter gets some serious time.
‘Hopefully the sentencing judge knows a farce when he sees one.’
I think thats wishful thinking.
The President should pardon him this afternoon.
It's sobering to think that very few citizens could afford to bring Mr. Libby's level of financial and legal resources to fight such frivolous charges of obstruction of justice and perjury -- charges derivative to the original mandate of the prosecutor which turned out to be an investigation of a crime that did not even exist; if Mr. Libby cannot win, then who can?
Do you recall who you spoke with, precisely when and exactly what you talked about on July 19th, 2003?
I think Libby was genuinely trying to answer questions, his answers didn’t jive with our extremely credible and ethical MSM reporters (/extreme sarcasm) and a DC jury that apparently had at least one member with a conflict of interest so huge that it’s amazing Libby’s attorney’s didn’t object to...got to take a swing at the Bush administration.
That Fitz ever prosecuted these trumped up charges is a travesty although Bush was a fool to call for an investigation into this particular leak while letting so many others go unnoted.
Libby should’ve just given the standard Hillary answer.
Indeed.
I find it ironic that on this day , DU is down for server upgrades! It’s gonna be ugly! ;-)
DU is down for possible Fitzmas??
Bwahahaaa!!
Cubicle bound- will you ping me when you hear the sentence please?
Yup! heheheheheheheheh
Will try SE MOM. I see this thread has been moved, there may be a new Breaking News thread come up when verdict is announced so keep watching there too.
Nope. Of course this is 2007, and Libby was questioned back in 2003-2004. And it would help if you rephrased the question to more closely resemble this case, instead of being an open-ended one. You have to ask where I learned about a certain person.
And I won't be giving different versions of what I may have known to different people. The truth is a story easy to stick to, but it's hard to keep your lies straight. They already had a trial to determine whether it was a memory lapse or perjury.
and a DC jury that apparently had at least one member with a conflict of interest so huge that it’s amazing Libby’s attorney’s didn’t object to..
If the jury was so biased, then why was he acquitted on one of the charges? Members of the jury said they were sympathetic to Libby, but just couldn't believe that it was simply a memory lapse.
Another idiot who defends this outrage...
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