Which is ironic given that is what many people seemed to want in 2000 - a good Christian man with strong personal values who said what he meant and meant what he said and who could unite the country after the Clinton years. We got one and his approval rating is at 26%.
Scooter was sentenced to 2.5 years in jail because he had a different recollection of events that Fat Dim Russert. Fat Dim filed a false affidavit to the judge, one that the prosecutor KNEW was false. Judge Walton allowed on the jury, over the objections of the defense, a neighbor of Fat Dim’s who also worked for Woodward at one point.
The whole case was a farse from start to end; Walton needs to hang up his robe and retire; Fitzy needs to be held in contempt for lieing to the court and a full investigation of his prosecutorial tactics needs to be undertaken.
As for Libby, how/when will he ever get his reputation back?
NBC/MSNBC was intimately involved in this whole story. From the spitter Chris Matthews who made it his trademark story, to his “key” reporter David Schuster who was caught in more lies than any other reporter. Mrs. Alan Greenspan knew all about Plame and told us so on Capitol report, then claimed she must have been drunk when she said that (as so she told IMUS). David Gregory was a leak recipient and Fat Dim filed the false affidavit and lied on the stand when he said he didn’t know you couldn’t have a lawyer in the grand jury room. All of these individuals are still employed by NBC/MSNBC. There is NO doubt in my mind that NBC/MSNBC was colluding with the Kerry campaign during this whole story.
I’m glad the President commuted Libby’s sentence and I’m glad he slapped the judge when he made his statement saying that the punishment was in part based on evidence that was NOT presented at trial.
Walton is Ito, Fitzy is Niphong.