Posted on 10/28/2005 9:45:41 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Libby indicted on obstruction of justice, false statment and perjury charge...
Libby should never have had to testify. He was called in on a subpoena on a phony, non-existent crime. How about we charge you with wearing blue shoes and bring you into the grand jury. During the prosecutor's questions, you say you only wear red shoes. They find out that you once wore blue shoes, and indict you for perjury. Who cares if what you misspoke about didn't pertain to an actual crime?
It's like evidence obtained by a violation of the law, which is subject to the exclusionary rule.
Big Dud
After 22 months Fitzy charge LIbby because he got his info from Cheney, not Matt Cooper.......zzzzzzzzzzzz
The average American still can't figure out what this was all about, and this won't help matters. This ain't no Watergate or Monica Lewinsky scandal, it's a snore-fest.
POST THE INDICTMENT.
Over-charged........ a prosecutor would never do that.(/s)
nah, they would get him if they wished he had lied. fitz has a history of nasty tactics with witnesses in the ryan case.
Not from what I saw with Clinton on his "crimes"......
The Bush Justice Department will Now Go After the Clinton's Once and For All!
What "stuff"?
Yes, that's an important point to understand about hard drives: when you delete data, the data isn't actually erased from your hard drive. The deleted area is just marked as unused and then can be overwritten with new data. Numerous people have been nailed for various offenses when they thought they had permanently deleted files from their hard drives. To really get rid of data on a hard drive, you have to destroy the hard drive's storage disk.
Two years and a gazillion dollars to accuse someone of not going along with the investigator?
No investigated crime was found. Just the problem of getting in the investigators way.
If Bush had any real backbone he would have the Justice department go after Wilson and uncover the whole sordid scheme. But I doubt anything will happen like that.
The assertion that "leaking" Plame's name was a crime was bogus all along. She wasn't a covert agent, and she would have to have been one for a crime to have been committed. Everyone knew that all along, including the reporters who dubbed this the "CIA leak case".
The CIA has certainly gone downhill. No wonder our intelligence operations are in such poor shape. Why are mediocrities, phonies, and tabloid types like Wilson and Plame even allowed near the CIA building?
So, there was no crime of "outing" after all, so they drug as many people in and questioned them about conversations they had three years ago in order to get these trumped up charges. Absolutely disgusting. They have to prove he did any of them willingly.
I am getting where I can't stand politics, period.
ping!
You know, don't you, that perjury is one of the most difficult charges to prove, because it has to be shown that the accused intentionally lied?
I happen to think Fitzgerald had to come up with something to justify two years, $2 million, so he keeps calling Libby back until he traps him in a "lie." Then he fashions obstruction charges around the "lie."
This will be laughed out of court.
("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")
And also the Hollywood Gala campaign finance scandal being investigated against Billary Clinton. Libby is knee deep in helping the Clinton's.
Replacing Libby may not be a bad thing.
He was held liable in the civil sense, not the criminal sense. Therefore, he is not subject to laws governing convicted felons and voting.
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2005/10/how_covert_was__1.html
She wasn't very covert and the leak of her name caused no real damage.http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2005/10/how_covert_was__1.html
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