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...
Clintonistas:
• Lying under oath to a federal judge - a crime U.S. District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright determined that President Clinton committed in the Paula Jones sexual harasssment case. Legal resolution: No criminal indictment.
• Lying under oath to a federal grand jury - as Independent Counsel Ken Starr found President Clinton had done in the Monica Lewinsky investigation. Legal resolution: No criminal indictment.
• Lying under oath both to Congress and to federal investigators - as Independent Counsel Robert Ray concluded that Mrs. Clinton had done in the Travel Office probe. Legal resolution: No indictment
• Hiding evidence from Starr's Whitewater investigation - as the Senate Banking Committee concluded Mrs. Clinton did in the case of her missing Rose Law firm billing records. Legal resolution: No criminal referral, no indictments.
2 mil + ripped off from taxpayers so fitzy can play twister with chrissy matthews....lame
What? No treason charges? The left is going to freak!
So if Libby was dating Miller, why isn't she indicted too?
I'd like to wade through it but I lack the time ... gonna have to wait till someone can summarize it. Thanks for the link. I will scan it.
Nope. Trying to use Scooter to work the "Conspiracy" angle.
Fitzgerald looks like a cop who was sent out to investigate a murder and caught somebody driving 10 miles over the speed limit through the murder scene.
A few thoughts on this very bad news.
The "new tone" was, perhaps, worth a try when George W. Bush went to Washington. It worked in Texas. But a year with the vipers in D.C. should have convinced the Bush White House that the only way to deal with political enemies in D.C. was in full battle mode. It never happened. The administration has publicly remained mute and unresponsive in the face endless outrageous attacks made on it by the lying press, the Dems, and the leftists. The administration never responds publicly. It just sits on its hands and lets the WH press secretary, a man who barely has the skills to be a spokesman for a small, rural school district, handle the snakes. The snakes you treated like a box of newborn kittens have now inflicted a serious wound on your presidency, Mr. President.
An administration skilled in doing battle in public might pull out of this. But this White House has never fought publicly against its political enemies. I sincerely hope that will change. The MSM now has the weapons to defeat the complete Bush domestic agenda if the White House reverts to form of not going after its political enemies publicly, including those in the press. The press and their Democrat masters will now start trying to criminalize Cheney and Bush. The chants of "corruption" and "criminal" will be loud and unceasing. It's already started. Unless this administration's customary weak response to political attacks is changed now, this will soon become a caretaker government.
Joe Wilson is one of many snakes the administration has treated like a kitten. Instead of multiple administration officials openly, forcefully, and repeatedly calling Wilson a liar, which he is, the White House played back channel games with the press (more snakes) to induce the MSM to expose Wilson. Fat chance. And that unwillingness to do public battle has led to this situation.
I feel sorry for Libby. There was no crime, yet he is charged with something that allegedly happened during the "investigation". This is an outrage against justice. Sadly, I have to point out that Martha Stewart was prosecuted and jailed for the same sort of thing by the Bush justice department. It won't be easy for the administration to argue this is unfair when it's done the same thing itself.
Who was the genius who agreed to hire Fitzgerald, maybe the most aggressive prosecutor in America, as the Special Prosecutor? Another snake in the cradle. There wasn't an inexperienced pacifist like Ken Starr available? Was Fitzgerald suggested by one of the Clinton DOJ holdovers the Bush team so foolishly failed to fire when they took over? More snakes treated as kittens.
As much as I despise Clinton, his team was always on the political offensive and usually way ahead of the curve. On domestic issues, the Bush team is always on its heels and doesn't seem to understand there even is a curve.
Bottom line: in the D.C. political wars, the White House is no place for a conscientious objector.
The political capital we worked so hard to give George W. Bush is close to being spent.
If the White House doesn't take the offensive quickly, the House and Senate could be lost. If we can't hold on to the House, expect an attempt at impeachment in 2007.
You have been fantastic in fighting the war on terror, Mr. President. Please, please start doing battle against the snakes of the MSM and the Democrat party. Fight, sir, fight.
DUmmies JUST GOT UNDERWEAR FOR FITZMAS - NO BYCYCLE OR TOYS!
Not to mention Sandy Berger's pants.
Could the media get over this already
How can you obstruct justice if justice was not what was being sought?
That was just the democrats bait.
LIBBY INDICTED
1 count--Obstruction of justice
2 counts perjury
2 counts--making false statements
it is a generic charge, like 'conspiracy'
Perjury and obstuction of justice are actual crimes.
Bump.
Now we know where the number's 1 to 5 came from?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/28/leak.probe/index.html
Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, was indicted today by a grand jury on one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of making false statements and two counts of perjury in the CIA leak probe. The indictments are the first in a nearly two-year investigation into the public unmasking of an undercover CIA operative.
Top Cheney Aide Lewis 'Scooter' Libby Indicted
Washington- AP, October 28, 2005) - Vice President Dick Cheney's top adviser, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, indicted on obstruction of justice, false statment and perjury charges.Rove's lawyer was told by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's office that investigators had not completed their probe into Rove's conduct, said two people close to the Republican strategist, speaking only on condition of anonymity because of grand jury secrecy.
Rove's lawyers were told there still were matters to resolve before the prosecutor "decides what he is going to do, so Mr. Rove will not be indicted today," one of the people said Friday.
Fitzgerald scheduled a 2 p.m. EDT news conference in Washington, along with an FBI investigator in the case.
SNIP
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