Justice....finally.
Here is a background of the Scooter Libby Case:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/04/annals-injustice-conrad-black/
EXCERPT:
In his demonic zeal to catch the big fish, Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald threw Reporter Judith Miller into jail for 85 days for taking the traditional journalistic position of refusing to reveal her sources.
She was conditionally released and carefully prepared as a grand-jury and trial witness by Fitzgerald, in the widespread American technique of prosecutors intimidating and cajoling witnesses and shaping their testimony to their requirements for conviction. She was persuaded by Fitzgerald that a phrase from her reporter’s notebook, “wife works in Bureau?,” proved that Libby told her about Plame.
Three years later, when she read Valerie Plame’s memoir of the affair, and saw that Plame had worked for the State Department, she realized that the word “Bureau” applied to that department and was not a reference to the CIA (which does not use the word “bureau”).
Fitzgerald had reviewed Plame’s employment record and had taken sworn testimony from all relevant people. He was aware of the sequence of contacts in the controversy and knew that Armitage was in fact the source, but ignored his constitutional duty to act on exculpatory evidence.
He misrepresented the facts to the judge and the jury, and he encouraged Judith Miller to misinterpret her own evidence in order to facilitate a conviction of Scooter Libby. Accurate testimony from Ms. Miller would have blown up most of the already unstable case against Libby, who was just a bridge to Cheney anyway; the vice president, Fitzgerald told the court, was “under a cloud,” meaning one confected by Fitzgerald. Ms. Miller conducted her own research after the fact and it was confirmed to her by Libby’s counsel that Fitzgerald, again in the usual corrupt functioning of the American plea-bargain system, had twice offered to drop all charges against Libby if he would inculpate the vice president. The big scalp leads to the big political or private-sector job, and to hell with the facts, the law, the public interest, and the rights of inconvenient people.
Well played
Libby was another victim of the Deep State trying to bury their enemies.
One more thing that Bush should have done that Trump is delivering on.
Thank you President Donald J. Trump, just goes to show you what a wimp G.W. Bush is and how little he cared for the people around him.
1) Slam against the Bushes. 2) Message he can pardon anyone. 3) Libby worked for the penultimate deep stater Cheney; I haven’t figured that one out yet.
Outstanding!
Good. The poor guy was railroaded, thanks to the insufferable Colin Powell.
Trump has the moral courage that Bush completely lacked. Bush’s failure to pardon the railroaded Libby was indicative of Bush’s fealty to the Washington establishment. The more we learn about Bush, the greater his reputation shrinks.
Really? Pardoning a New York Slimes mainstream journalist? Their heads will all explode!
PRECISELY WHY TRUMP SHOULD DO IT!
I thought it was "lack of candor"
Why not? As Scooter wasn’t even the original leaker.
Beautiful
Makes the obvious parallels between the Palme clown show and Muller’s clown show jump out at you
maybe Flynn is the new libby
Wonder what Dallas’ GWB had to say about this?
“President George W. Bush had previously commuted Libby’s prison sentence.”
Glad Trump has the cojones that “W” obviously lacked.
Nicely done.
Now there’s quite a few (D)s that deserve the same treatment Libby got.
Let’s get that done as well.
Good. Trump is doing some very important things with a remarkable lack of hand wringing.
More like this please!