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Ex-VP Dick Cheney outraged President Bush didn't grant 'Scooter' Libby full pardon
New York Daily News ^
| February 17, 2009
| Thomas M. DeFrank
Posted on 02/17/2009 7:03:52 AM PST by Arec Barrwin
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To: Arec Barrwin
I cannot understand why Bush refused to do this.
To: SharpTalons
I heard someone who knows far more than most of us about this situation say exactly what you just said.
To: Arec Barrwin
Agreed. Clinton and Democrats get away with crimes in front of our face all day long. Bush was afraid to do the right thing with people who aren’t even guilty of a crime.
To: Arec Barrwin
"The unsuccessful full-court press left Cheney bitter."
Vice President Cheney, get in line. There's a lot of us that are mad at Bush. The ones that supported him. Well, Scooter can't vote now and he can't work in the profession he was trained in. I guess he should just become a Democrat and then apply for his Access card. Scooter will have company in the Access card line, Ramos and Compean....
To: ncalburt
Whoa. are you completely delusional? You attack me for being a troll. I agree with the President on this call. BTW could you please step out of your “us vs. them” bubble and examine the situation on the ground. Frankly speaking the GOP and democratic party are not our friends. Look at the DOW for christ’s sake.
To: Arec Barrwin
As I understand it, Libby didn’t want one.
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posted on
02/17/2009 7:19:49 AM PST
by
Buck W.
(BHO: Selling hope, keeping the change.)
To: A.A. Cunningham
DAILY NEWS updated version of old news to keep people “occupied”, instead of talking about the liberal power grab using tax payer money
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posted on
02/17/2009 7:20:37 AM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Arec Barrwin
I cannot stand that NY Daily News site with the pop-ups that never go away.
Cheney is right, and he has the right to go public about this.
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posted on
02/17/2009 7:22:51 AM PST
by
bboop
(obama, little o, not a Real God)
To: Arec Barrwin
Yeah, Libby should have been pardoned...I don’t think Bush thinks about anyone but himself...hanging a felony conviction around Libby’s neck is wrong...the guy didn’t do anything.
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posted on
02/17/2009 7:23:49 AM PST
by
nyconse
To: Arec Barrwin
I am not a fan of Cheney but on this point I agree completely. Bush is downright irrational on so many points. Hope he remains invisible. A very, very big disappointment and I voted for him twice.
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posted on
02/17/2009 7:23:56 AM PST
by
TCats
To: Buck W.
I don’t believe it...why would he want a felony conviction?
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posted on
02/17/2009 7:25:09 AM PST
by
nyconse
To: nyconse
The way I heard it put—if pardoned, he would be unable to win a court victory, as there would no longer be a charge. He wants to win in court.
Is it true? I don’t know!
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posted on
02/17/2009 7:28:26 AM PST
by
Buck W.
(BHO: Selling hope, keeping the change.)
To: SharpTalons
Didnt Libby lie under Oath? Why I thought the Wilson/plame affair was hyperbole, we cant absolve Libbys error. He should have not lied. Libby is an example why it's best to claim the 5th whenever possible.
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posted on
02/17/2009 7:31:51 AM PST
by
Balding_Eagle
(If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
To: SharpTalons
*** Didnt Libby lie under Oath? *** Not exactly.
His crime was remembering something different than Tim Russet in front of a Grand Jury and Fed Investigators. And we know that an ex Democratic operative and liberal (cough) journalist would never, ever, 'fib'.
Now, considering that Russet all of a sudden just went and 'suddenly died', maybe God was getting even for Russert 'misremembering'.
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posted on
02/17/2009 7:32:55 AM PST
by
Condor51
(The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
To: Buck W.
A pardon halts the appeal process. I believe Libby wants to take this appeal as far as it will go.
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posted on
02/17/2009 7:33:46 AM PST
by
Right Cal Gal
(Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
To: Balding_Eagle
Or remember three little words: “I can’t recall.”
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posted on
02/17/2009 7:34:42 AM PST
by
Right Cal Gal
(Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
To: Verginius Rufus
I do know that the jury was a bunch of Democrats. The foreman was a friend of Russert’s and Woodward’s.
The whole case was a travesty.
But if Bush would have pardoned Libby, it would have made it appear as if he were really guilty.
Same with Wuterich.
It’s better to have Justice work in the end. I used to believe strongly that in the end Justice works. As I grow older, I’m not so sure...
To: Buck W.
This was said about the border guys but no Libby...at least I never heard anyone say this...Cheney would not be ‘furious’ if this is true.
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02/17/2009 7:35:16 AM PST
by
nyconse
To: Condor51
IIRC, there was a failure to disclose media connections by one of the jurors, but since I don’t have the hard facts, I’ll leave to fellow Freepers with better memories.
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posted on
02/17/2009 7:37:24 AM PST
by
Right Cal Gal
(Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
To: SharpTalons
IIRC, and admittedly I had difficulty mustering enough interest in this whole debacle to understand, I believe the “lie” was something about when he talked to Novak; etc....Under President Bush the media stretched the meaning of the word “lie” to mean anything that one stated, that may turn out to be incorrect later is a lie. So...under the new “definition” of lie...every time the weather doesn't turn out the way the weatherman predicts, the weatherman is a liar. I think Libby's answers may or may not have been correct, but I don't know that they were lies.
JMO.
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posted on
02/17/2009 7:39:05 AM PST
by
IMissPresidentReagan
(I no longer have a President. I just pray in four years I still have a country.)
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