Amen...Of all the players in this, I detest Colin Powell the most. He knew. KNEW. And KEPT HIS MOUTH SHUT. He could have picked up a phone and put and end to it.
But he didn’t. And by all that can be gleaned, he did it for personal, vindictive, political reasons.
As far as I am concerned, that undid every good thing Powell ever did for his country. Same as Benedict Arnold, who was a hero until he sold his country out.
Powell can rot in Hell.
Exactly. He’s a POS.
Amen...Agreed. I can’t believe I once supported that scum. Shame on me.
Joe Wilson had fabricated a motive for the political people in the Bush White House (Bush, Cheney, Rove) to want to damage Valerie Plame, and Fitzgerald seems to have taken that as his starting point. Even if it were true it would be par for the course in Washington--remember that Clintonista (Bacon) who revealed Linda Tripp's arrest (she was the victim of a prank by some "friends" and the case was quickly thrown out, but making the arrest public knowledge damaged her public reputation).
Libby was found guilty because his memory didn't match Russert's memory--instead of reasoning that both men were doing their best to remember an obscure conversation and had conflicting recollections, Fitzgerald chose to believe Russert and assume the other man was lying.
It was clear from the comments made by the jury after the trial that they wanted to find someone guilty--they wanted someone higher up in the administration but found Libby guilty because that's all they had.