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The Libby Travesty
Opinion Journal (Best of the Web ) ^ | 03/05/07 | James Taranto

Posted on 03/06/2007 4:39:09 PM PST by Kid Shelleen

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To: Dr. Scarpetta
Yes, the Marc Rich- Scooter Libby connection is actually UNBELIEVABLE, but it's true. As a result, I don't feel sorry for Libby when I think about the outrage of Bill Clinton and the Marc Rich pardon...

I know what you are saying. The whole Fitzgerald case was a witch-hunt and I do have sympathy for Libby, but he doesn't seem squeaky clean enough to have been Cheney's Chief of Staff. Perhaps a lapse of judgment.....

21 posted on 03/06/2007 6:22:43 PM PST by redgirlinabluestate
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
I think Quinn and Libby were members of the same firm. Libby may have been associated with the case in some way, but Quinn was Rich's lead attorney.

I'm not sure it's accurate to tar Libby with the Rich brush.

22 posted on 03/06/2007 6:22:51 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: gobus1
Surely Bush will pardon Libby...surely!

Yeah, sure he will. Not! If Bush had any ba!!s left he would do it tomorrow with a special TV brief and call the trial a miscarriage of justice.

23 posted on 03/06/2007 6:25:23 PM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: Alberta's Child
You're the one making the outre assumption. This was an "inside the CIA" job; it had nothing whatsoever to do with this administration.

England is the one who shared their "secret" info with us; we weren't trying to make THEM believe something.

24 posted on 03/06/2007 6:28:08 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Logical me

I agree...but, seriously, I can't imagine Bush not giving Libby a pardon before he leaves office.


25 posted on 03/06/2007 6:28:28 PM PST by gobus1
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To: hosepipe
You've been here long enough to know that such talk has always been against posting policy and besides which, you're just all talk.

There was NO "revolution" during the 8 long years of Bill Clinton's presidency and there won't be any uprising, if, GOD FOREBID, there is a Hillary *spit* one.

26 posted on 03/06/2007 6:32:24 PM PST by nopardons
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AP NEWS"There were good managerial type people on this jury who took everything apart and put it in the right place," juror Denis Collins said after he and his colleagues convicted I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby of perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI. "After that, it wasn't a matter of opinion. It was just there."
It's official, we live in the Union of the Soviet United States.
27 posted on 03/06/2007 6:33:22 PM PST by ottersnot (Get Conservative or get Hillary.)
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To: okie01

Exactly so.


28 posted on 03/06/2007 6:34:19 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
[.. There was NO "revolution" during the 8 long years of Bill Clinton's presidency and there won't be any uprising, if, GOD FOREBID, there is a Hillary *spit* one. ..]

True..... any courage in America has been shipped to Iraq or Afganistan..
Could be WHY there is a war in Iraq..

You know .... to insure there will be no civil war in the U.S..
Any non military in the U.S. are way to cowardly.. old .. or metrosexual.. or ditzy females..

29 posted on 03/06/2007 7:23:27 PM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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To: Kid Shelleen

This decision shows why DC has become a bed of illiterate liberal idiots.

This decision is more dangerous to White Conservative Males than Ben Laden and al Qaeda. Now we can be found guilty for any imaginary crime the liberals come up with.

Sandy Berger walks with an admitted act of theft of top secret documents and treason. Libby is charged and found guilty with an imaginary crime.

In any event Libby is a Republican and works for Dick Cheney to some liberals and to the media that in itself deserves Capital Punishment.

In contrast the national security advisor to President Bill Clinton, risking his livelihood, and his liberty stole classified documents from the national archives and destroyed them. He knew that this was a crime but the travesty is that he stole these documents in the midst of a bi-partisan commission's investigation into the terrorist attacks of 911. The implication of this act is treason.

The key questions, still unanswered are who was Mr. Berger covering up for? Was it his own mistakes as National Security Advisor that would be embarrassing to be made public by the 911 commission? Or, was he in fact covering up for mishandlings by Bill Clinton? History will never be able to re-create facts that were in those destroyed documents and therefore we may never know why the government failed to stop 911 from happening.

Almost 3000 Americans were murdered and the crime to cover up the facts surrounding that is largely unpunished. Mr. Berger is a liberal Democrat who worked for former President Bill Clinton. Being a Liberal Democrat who worked for the media beloved Bill Clinton got him a pass. So much for the balanced scales of justice.


30 posted on 03/07/2007 7:34:22 AM PST by Grampa Dave (GW has more Honor and Integrity in his little finger than ALL of the losers on the "hate Bush" band)
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