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First class recounting of the TRUTH! Thanks, sleuthie, and thanks for highlighting this piece, phsstpok. I'm still stick to my stomach ............

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http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27278

"Some envision an ever-widening probe, or a back room deal in which Libby rats out his former puppet-master.

Blogger Andrew Sullivan thinks it’s time to consider impeaching Cheney, and Hardball’s Chris Matthews has long believed in the inherent evil of Vice President “Chee-nee.”

The Left’s fantasies aside, Fitzgerald has declared, “the investigation was inactive prior to the trial...I do not expect to file any additional charges.

We’re all going back to our day jobs.”

Leftists, too, have resumed their day jobs, which consist of slandering the president and undermining their nation’s morale during a war."

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* Wilson claimed Vice President Cheney dispatched him to Niger; Cheney did not even know of his trip.

* Wilson claimed his wife “had nothing to do with the matter. She definitely had not proposed that I make the trip.”; however, Plame wrote a memo successfully advocating her husband be chosen for the assignment (based in part on the fact that he had “lots of French contacts”).

* Wilson dissembled that he wrote a report of his activities; he never laid pen to paper.

* Wilson said his trip uncovered no evidence of Saddam Hussein’s attempt to purchase yellowcake uranium; the CIA agents who debriefed him averred that his testimony “lent more credibility” to the notion Saddam had.

* Wilson claimed he saw the documents the uranium claim was based on, and they were forgeries, because “the dates were wrong and the names were wrong”; however, the CIA did not have these documents until eight months after Wilson left. In this case – in which Wilson, not Libby, remembered things that never occurred – he sheepishly claimed he had “misspoken.”

The difference between Joe Wilson’s proven lies and Libby’s theoretical ones could not be more stark:

Libby’s endangered no one, while Wilson’s undermined the commander-in-chief while U.S. troops were in the midst of a hot war.

Neither could their recompense be any more divergent.

Libby faces 30 years in prison and a $1.25 million fine. Meanwhile, the Plame-Wilsons will proceed with their lawsuit against the Bush administration for “outing” Plame, field an offer from Hollywood heavyweight Jerry Zucker to make a biopic (which I believe is tentatively titled, “The Protocols of Learned Scooter Libby”),

and Valerie Plame will follow her husband’s bestseller with a $2 million book deal of her own. The disgraced ambassador said his wife “wept” – tears of joy – “when she heard the news” of Libby’s conviction.

The status-driven social climbers are crying all the way to the bank.

Patriotic Americans, dedicated to winning the War on Terror – or who simply believe in the ideals of truth and decency – cry, too.

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Thomas Sowell - Memory Problems

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTc5MWEyM2ZlN2Q4ZTY5ZWQ4ODQyYWU3ZDMxNDI5OWU=

"A man's life has been ruined because his memories differed from that of others — whose memories also differed among themselves — and media liberals are exulting as if their conspiracy theories had been vindicated.

More important, how are we to expect highly qualified people, with far better options than a government job, to risk being put through the Washington meatgrinder because of politics, media hype and special prosecutors who can create crimes in the course of an investigation, when there was none to begin with?"

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Charles Krauthammer - Fitzgerald's Folly

http://www.scooterlibby.com/news/Read.aspx?ID=288

"There is a second instance of Russert innocently misremembering.

He stated under oath that he did not know that one may not be accompanied by a lawyer to a grand jury hearing. This fact, in and of itself, is irrelevant to the case, except that, as former prosecutor Victoria Toensing points out, the defense had tapes showing Russert saying on television three times that lawyers are barred from grand jury proceedings.

This demonstration of Russert's fallibility was never shown to the jury.

The judge did not allow it. He was upset with the defense because it would not put Libby on the stand -- his perfect Fifth Amendment right -- after hinting in the opening statement that it might.

He therefore denied the defense a straightforward demonstration of the fallibility of the witness whose testimony was most decisive.

Toensing thinks this might be the basis for overturning the verdict upon appeal.

I hope so. This is a case that never should have been brought, originating in the scandal that never was, in search of a crime -- violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act -- that even the prosecutor never alleged.

That's the basis for a presidential pardon. It should have been granted long before this egregious case came to trial.

It should be granted now without any further delay."

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Fitz's overblown, crimefighter Cheney obsession .. his daydream of some dark and sinister conspiracy, it's just outrageous. What an egotistical, blasphemous, fantastical and flimsy premise for the national tumult and personal damage he engineered.

Any future judicial engagement by him is now completely suspect in my mind. He exhibited a profound lack of judicial and even common sense discretion.

Who watches the "watcher?"

I wonder if he's been reading all the dissident opinion pieces about him and clipping for his scrapbook.

God bless the grownups in this time of war:

Vice President Cheney, President Bush and our awesome troops ... doing their job 24/7 throughout this shameful debacle, as they will and with honor, till their terms are over.

God bless Scooter Libby and his family.

Fitz:

You could have used your time to hunt and destroy the "gold bars" of real corruption and national security risks; instead, you were pathetically bent over ... picking up "pennies" off the floor.

http://scooterlibby.com/