Posted on 03/07/2007 5:39:12 AM PST by PJ-Comix
No I seriously doubt that ArmPitt will include that in anything he writes about AndyScam.
Last any of us heard about it...he was hiring lawyers to come after us...and he was trying to pitch the story to Michael Moore to be included in his next...*ahem*...movie.
He will re-write history and distort fact in the same manner he does on a daily basis at DU...and the DUmmies in Pavlovian style...will cheer him.
Yes that would be them. So stealthy they're invisible...almost like they don't exist! :)
Editorial | Libby Takes the Fall Just following orders
The latest casualty of the war in Iraq is I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, White House fall guy and former top aide to Vice President Cheney, convicted yesterday of perjury and obstructing justice.
Libby faces prison time for lying to federal investigators about his efforts to discredit Joseph Wilson, a critic of the Bush administration's flawed rationale for invading Iraq in 2003. Libby's efforts included leaking to journalists the fact that Wilson's wife was a CIA operative.
The case involved a tangle of political motives, but Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald summed it up succinctly: A high-level White House official lied under oath in a national security investigation. (Outing an undercover CIA agent can be a federal crime, but Fitzgerald did not charge Libby with that.
The topic that Libby lied about is important: a reckless effort to discredit a critic of the Iraq war. Libby took part in a frantic bid to squelch an inconvenient truth - that the administration had rushed into war based on assertions about Iraqi WMD that were flat-out wrong.
Bush told the nation in early 2003 that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein tried to obtain uranium, used in making nuclear weapons, from the African nation of Niger. After the Iraq invasion, Wilson, a former diplomat who'd served in Baghdad and West Africa, wrote in a newspaper article that he had investigated the uranium report at the CIA's behest in 2002 and found it to be "highly doubtful." He accused the administration of "twisting" intelligence to justify the war.
Libby, who was Cheney's right-hand man, responded swiftly, suggesting to reporters (anonymously, of course) that Wilson's trip to Africa was a junket fueled by nepotism at the CIA. In so doing, he mentioned that Wilson's wife (Valerie Plame) was a CIA analyst.
This bungled run-up to war, the criminally negligent lack of planning for the occupation, and the disgraceful Libby episode were brought to us by a White House crew that once claimed to be uniquely qualified on national defense.
The prosecution rests on that count, too.
While Libby's actions were obnoxious, he was only following Cheney's orders. Jurors said they believed the White House sacrificed Libby to protect presidential adviser Karl Rove and others.
"There was a tremendous amount of sympathy for Mr. Libby on the jury," said juror Denis Collins. "We asked ourselves, 'What is he doing here? Where is Rove and all these other guys?... He was the fall guy.' Some jurors said at one point, 'We wish we weren't judging Libby.' "
As for "all these other guys," they were not talking much yesterday. President Bush got word of the verdict in the Oval Office, the same place that he had promised seven years ago to infuse with a new integrity. A spokeswoman said the president "respected" the jury's decision.
If the president truly does respect this verdict, he ought to be seeking resignations. Rove, the architect of his presidency, was neck-deep in the scheme to discredit Wilson. He, too, spoke to a columnist about Wilson's wife. (Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage acknowledged being the first to disclose Plame's identity to a journalist.)
And what of Cheney, whose bidding Libby clearly was doing?
Libby is the only one headed for jail, but the verdict condemns higher government officials in absentia.
...Several years ago, I was wrongly and clandestinely accused of terrible things in two separate incidents. The action appears to have been motivated by petty maliciousness in one case and by fear and racism in the other. The rumors were discussed and believed by literally hundreds of people, including those in administrative and dominant social positions. I found out about both years or months later from people outside the organizations, as no one inside them bothered to confront, warn, or face up to me in person.
Prior to this, I was one of the most universally respected persons, but since then I have been stained, and carry a legacy of disgrace. Upon visiting one organization after my direct involvement ended, I heard about the accusation there again from people much younger than me, indicating that when I and the others left, the story and the mark stayed.
[Hmmm...An organization filled with hundreds of people including much younger people who passed the story on to other young people year after year. A school perhaps?]
Though the accusations were never brought to legal ends, I fear that they carry the effect of multiple felony convictions. I believe that should I ever apply for a job that requires a thorough background check, run for public office, or make an enemy of any person, these rumors will spring out of my history, and because they are believed by so many people and I have no means to disprove them, be taken as fact. This won’t ever go away, no matter how old I live to be. It will follow me all the way to my grave.
I’m in a different town now, but I remain surrounded by people involved in both incidents. At any time, should I be recognized publicly, or should someone have a grudge against me, some of the very accusers themselves can step forward and instantly destroy my career prospects, social relationships, and most other aspects of my life beyond hope of repair.
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After all this, still no sympathy for Libby. Typical liberal!
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