Affleck: Bush 'Can Be Hung' for Leakgate

NewsMax ^ | 4/8/06 | NewsMax

[wagglebee]

Actor Ben Affleck has made it very clear where his sympathies lie in the Leakgate affair -- and it isn't with the White House.

Appearing on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," Affleck charged that President Bush "probably also leaked” CIA agent Valerie Plame's name and so "if he did, you can be hung for that! That's treason!” He continued: "You could be killed. That's not a joking around Tom DeLay 'I'll do a year, I bribed the state officials with corporate money.' That's like they shoot you in the battlefield for doing that.”

Affleck also called DeLay a "criminal."

[Clinging Bitterly]

Ben Affleck is a moron. Whatever the importance of the secrecy of Valerie Plame's identity and employment history (and her "undercover" status is debatable), whether or not that information is to be or remain classified is entirely within the executive branch's power to decide. Here the President isn't so much above the law, but appears to BE the law. Handing over secrets to a foreign power (say, CHINA?) for personal gain might be a problem, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.

Still and all, there is only one guy who is saying he did that (actually hearsay that he authorized the realease of contents of an intelligence memo), and I don't think anyone in a position to know has publicly said it even contained reference to Valerie Plame.

[DoughtyOne]

Yes, he has self-destructed before our eyes. Good call.

[Atchafalaya]

He is butt dumb and once she gets 1-2years into the parenting thingy it's gonna be Benbegone, Benbyby, Benamf.

[dfwgator]

Naaah! He ought to give up acting too.

How can you give up something if you never did it in the first place?

[I Drive Too Fast]

Affleck might have gotten a Cabinet position

Secretary of the Inferior?

[Petronski]

Affleck should be hanged for Gigli.

[chainsaw]

Who is Ben Affect?

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

my question is: who cares what he thinks? I'm just suprised he can.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

oh, I forgot.

BURN HOLLYWOOD BURN!

[Dr.Zoidberg]

It's back. =-)

[AnnaZ]

It's back. =-)

But where are you?

[OKIEDOC]

Afflect better get a new line of work like politics because he sure can't act.

[EmilyGeiger]

What's the punishment for being stupid? Here's your sign, Affleck.

[altura]

Couldn't he be hung for Gigli (or whatevr that stupid show was)

[HamiltonJay]

Wow, if Bush was 1/2 as bad at his job as you are at acting, he'd never have gotten past dog catcher.... unfortunately in your business... talent and sacrifice have little to do with making it to the top... given you exist in such a world, its no wonder your world view is so screwed up.

[DCPatriot]

Ben Affleck should be hung for Gigli and Sum of all Fears.

[altura]

dangit. I posted before I saw that the grammar patrol is on the job.

[reagan_fanatic]

AFFLECK!!"

[altura]

I thought he was the best thing in Shakespeare in Love, but then I hated everything else about that movie.

I later realized he wasn't acting, but playing himself, the conceited, overbearing, full-of-himself actor.

[Osage Orange]

But make a rapist the head of the United Nations..........