Posted on 09/04/2015 9:36:20 AM PDT by rktman
Donald Trump would not say if he would pardon former George W. Bush White House official Lewis “Scooter” Libby. Trump said the question was “not pertinent,” but Valerie Plame’s response on Twitter to The Daily Caller’s question to Trump about Libby was, “My head is spinning.”
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Just like in THE EXORCIST.
Had George W Bush any balls he would have pardoned the man before he left office. That omission is unpardonable in my opinion.
Roger that. The day they convicted him would have been too late.
Oh shoot - you beat me... I was going to find a Linda Blair youtube and post it...
Fitzgerald should repay taxpayers for the ruse he conducted, since he knew Day One Armitage told Woodward.
Libby was not as smart as I thought to be caught up in a procedural mess.
I heard Sandy Burger just got out of jail for theft of secret documents from the federal government (3 counts) by sticking documents in his pants and walking out on the orders of Bill Clinton during the 9/11 investigation. When does he start his sentence for the perjury that followed in immediate questioning? (I know its a run-on sentnence)
What? He didn’t go to jail for that? How can that be possible?
At least Lois Lerner will see the inside of a bighouse, right? No? Al (Tax evation) Sharpton? We can expect the jury verdict on Hillary Clinton’s crimes any day now, right.
“Libby was convicted in 2007 for obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury, and one count of making false statements.”
Nothing that Hillary, Koskinin, and Lerner haven’t done many times over, is it? How many years do you suppose they’ll get? (snicker)
This opened my eyes to George W. Bush and made me think a lot less of him.
LOL, next up on the Kelly File: Val Plame.
I suspect that Plame’s head spins a lot anyways.
He actually only did one thing well. Protect us from Muslims. He neglected everything else at the cost of our freedom.
He created DHS and the TSA for crap’s sake. My God.....how deplorable is that given our knowledge of the aftermath of it? He never said a word, answered his critics, and he never fought back against our domestic enemies.
“This opened my eyes to George W. Bush and made me think a lot less of him.”
For me, the coward brothers did it a bit earlier with Terri Schiavo.
They talked big about wanting to save her and did nothing.
Well, SantaFe is at about 8000 feet so she may just be light headed from the altitude.
George W. Bush was scared s***less of the CIA. Maybe they had something on his father.
He also refused to fire all of BJ Clinton’s appointees, who were responsible for God knows how many leaks and military deaths.
the government is full of non-political appointee democRAT operatives like these two. IIRC, as Clinton’s term was winding down, a whole bunch of his political appointees switched over to non-appointee jobs at the various agencies so that they couldn’t be fired and replaced by the next administration. the federal government has been completely infiltrated by people hell-bent on politicizing everything. is it any wonder the IRS ignores left wing groups and goes on seek-and-destroy missions against right wing groups? yet another way in which the GOPe does not fight back when the left creates an uneven playing field.
I will never forget that trap, and the fact that Bush didn’t pardon Libby. One excuse was that a pardon would not have expunged Libby’s conviction, simply pardoned him? There are many issues I don’t understand, but the procedural trap, Libby’s inconsistencies, always self-described as vague memories, since his phone calls number in the hundreds on many days, with the changing testimony of the television newsperson whose problems with alcohol were well known, and who died of a heart attack so he could not correct his testimony, and which he admitted consisted of vague memories, was complete nonsense.
Armitage, Colin Powell’s aide, confessed to having informed the reporter, even before Justice’s charges were made public, and Fitzgerald continued as if Libby (whose birth name is Israel Liebowitz) was the criminal. That is abuse of power. Plame is still acting the tool, she and her SDS-surfer husband. The involvement of the CIA continues to raise many questions. Look at John Brennan’s background, Wahhabi in the 1990s, Obama’s left hand beginning in the mid-2000s, when his employee “cauterized” Obama’s paper files in the State Department, and there is much reason suspect a war in the shadows.
Cheney was and is a straight talker and Libby was the most important member of his team.
one thing that GW did that I agree with was not pardoning Libby. Too many times the law does not apply to those in powerful places. He was found guilty by a jury. The commuted sentence was the right thing to do, however.
I’m still glad Rove, with all his faults, did avoid the ‘trap’ as you call it.
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