Posted on 01/25/2007 8:03:10 AM PST by STARWISE
Scooter ..
BUUUULLLLLLLLLLSSSSSSSHIIIIIPPPPPPPPPP
Why is this case even relevent?
IF Wells is going to use some anti Bush/ Rove sentiment to get Libby off, that is unfortunate. Based on teh charges against Libby, it's impossible to see how the White House could have sacrificed Libby to protect Rove. Libby is charged with not "remembering" that he told something to a couple of reporters. How could the WH have orchestrated that and how would it protect Rove?
The only WH plan would have required that Libby was told to contact the reporters, spread a story, and to deny it - all so Rove wouldn't be involved. I don't think Wells' opening contained any such charge.
The Republicans couldn't handle any of Clinton's real scandals.
Okay...this is JUST great. Should we believe Scooter and his lawyer?
OR, is this just a way to take more people down with him??
Very confounding ... mystifying ..
Hard to figure where Libby wins anything by taking this tac...
Re-posting a point from steve .. thank you, Steve.
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"Keep in mind that Libby's lawyers have been hired to defend Libby, not Bush, Rove, Cheney, or the administration's policy in Iraq. Some of us think that the defense lawyers are assuming the jury is laden with anti-Bush people and are therefore trying to drive a wedge between Libby and the adminstration.
If they can portray Libby as a victim or scapegoat of the Bush administration, an anti-Bush jury might be more likely to exonerate Libby. The lawyers' claims don't even need to be true to be effective as a courtroom tactic."
The article only had "part" of the note...and I couldn't really make sense of it.
It certainly is astonishing that the entire investigation was not immediately terminated the moment the Special Counsel learned that Armitage was the person who broke the Plame info to the press.
This case seems like nothing more than a prosecutor wanting to "make his bones" (as Clintoon would put it) in a high profile case.
If only Patrick "Inspector Javert" Fitzgerald could be put on the scent of the Sandy Burglar case, he might have a useful function.
Very true...and thank you Steve...
So...for Libby to get off, though...a lot of "untruths" to feed the Bush haters is fed to the jury.
Well..all I can say is, it better work, because if Libby gets convicted, by misrepresting what REALLY was going on...then I hope he goes away for a LONG TIME!
"Keep in mind that Libby's lawyers have been hired to defend Libby, not Bush, Rove, Cheney, or the administration's policy in Iraq. Some of us think that the defense lawyers are assuming the jury is laden with anti-Bush people and are therefore trying to drive a wedge between Libby and the adminstration.
If they can portray Libby as a victim or scapegoat of the Bush administration, an anti-Bush jury might be more likely to exonerate Libby. The lawyers' claims don't even need to be true to be effective as a courtroom tactic."
BINGO. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IS HAPPENING. It is the only way that a Republican could hope to get anything approaching justice with a DC jury. Nobody knew Libby. But Rove has been demonized by the Left since Bush won. This is a very smart strategy by the defense. Nothing more.
OH OH! I can answer that one! George Bush wants to steal your grandmothers dog food and throw her out into the street, so that Dick Cheney and Karl Rove can run her over in an evil SUV. He also want's to steal all the oil and give it to his ultra rich friends so they can gouge you at the pump.
Meanwhile Sandy Berger walks free.. What's wrong with this picture?
The excerpt was included in order to precondition the audience.
The same sentence could be used in context with several alternative purposes.
For one thing, early on in the witch hunt the WH was assuring us that they intended to comply fully and to support an honest investigation. The words cited would fit into that scenario as well as an alleged scapegoating.
Also, we are looking at the words of a hired lawyer, not Libby, interesting to see what his testimony will be and how similar it is to this supporting fire.
Judging from your screen name, I am assuming you are right...and that is good.
BUT, that doesn't really make me feel better, because I think the "goal" of this whole Joe Wilson/Niger thing was an attempt to "bring down" the Bush Administration...and it looks like, even if Libby is the "biggest fish" they could get in court...
They will at least accomplish getting the Bush White House portrayed in a very bad (probably false) light.
That seems to be exactly what Wells is doing. He's got a DC jury, presumably very unsympathetic to the admininstration and he's using that antipathy to make Scooter the victim in the case. The thing is, Scooter IS the victim here...but he's the victim of an over-zealous highly partisan and ambitious special prosecutor, not Karl Rove.
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