Posted on 06/05/2007 7:25:52 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
The Plame Scandal: The topic of amnesty has been very much front-and-center in public debate. Well, let us go on the record: We support amnesty 100%. For ex-White House aide Scooter Libby, that is.
Scooter Libby will face justice of sorts today, as a judge prepares to sentence him for the trumped-up crimes on which he was convicted three months ago.
We hope Judge Reggie B. Walton will remain oblivious to the howls for blood from the left-wing media and Democrat politicians and do what's right: Let Libby go, no prison time. Further, we call on President Bush to pardon Libby. It's the only decent thing to do.
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I'm afraid our president has gone dark. I wouln't be counting on him to help Libby....at all.
2 fine border patrolmen are sitting in prison while the durg smuggler they shot is free to sell his wares. Don't think, even for a minute, that Bush will pardon Libby.
If only he was charged as being an illegal enemy combatant he would be set free.
Libby did nothing wrong.. The Kangaroo trial was what it was..
Agreed!
Maybe our President will take the same hand-off approach as his Secretary Of Homeland Security, who last week said “Far be it for me to second-guess a Texas jury”, referring to the conviction and incarceration of his two Border Patrol officers who were doing their jobs.
That's an evil look, IMO.
Did you hear what Chertoff said on C-SPAN last week?
“Far be it for me to second-guess a Texas jury”, (paraphrased).
If you imagine that he was smirking when he said that, you’d be right.
Nah.
President Bush has nothing to lose by pardoning Libby. He should make the call 2 minutes after the sentencing to restore a little pride to the GOP.
Washington elite petition judge on behalf of convicted Cheney aide
JUNE 5--Donald Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger, Paul Wolfowitz, and John Bolton top the list of individuals who wrote a federal judge on behalf of former White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for lying to investigators and a federal grand jury examining the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. On the following 30 pages you'll find an assortment of letters from former colleagues and friends of Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff. The letters, which do not include a missive from Cheney himself, were filed this morning in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.. Included in the correspondence is a letter on former Cheney aide Mary Matalin's stationery which is signed by her and husband James Carville, the Democratic strategist. Others writing on Libby's behalf included Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Richard Perle, former Pentagon adviser; James Woolsey, ex-CIA director; Douglas Feith, former Under Secretary of Defense; Christopher Cox, ex-congressman and current Securities and Exchange Commission chairman; Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of The New Republic; Washington lawyer and former Nixon counsel Leonard Garment; former U.S. Senator Alan Simpson; former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky; former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Richard Myers; and Dr. Anthony Fauci, a National Institutes of Health official. (30 pages)
Sadly, I agree with you. :-(
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