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Showing posts with label I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Show all posts

Monday, July 2, 2007

Bush puts loyalty to friends above the law

The president's polling numbers have been in the toilet for months now, with no recovery in site. His hopes of passing an immigration bill went up in smoke, so what did he have to lose in commuting the prison sentence of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby? Nothing.

Who cares that Libby had the benefit of a jury of citizens, who weighed all the evidence and listened to all the testimony and found him guilty of perjury and obstructing justice? What does it matter than a federal appeals panel ruled that Libby could not delay his prison term and would likely have to report soon? Clearly, none of that matters to George Bush -- who puts loyalty to his friends above the law.

The most corrupt administration in history has yet another stain -- and has provided even more proof that Joe Wilson was correct!

More than 3,000 Americans, and countless Iraqi civilians, have died in a war that should never had started. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have lost limbs, or suffered other serious physical or emotional injuries -- and for what? So that Bush & Co. could line the pockets of their friends -- and by extension, themselves.

Why are these people allowed to be above the law?

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Don't pass GO Libby -- go directly to prison

Too bad the rulinging didn't say: Go directly to jail, do not pass GO ... but DO pay $250,000 in fines.

Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for lying and obstructing the CIA leak investigation. The case revealed a White House obsessed with criticism of its decision to go to war.

The Associate Press reports:

Libby, the highest-ranking White House official sentenced to prison since the Iran-Contra affair, asked for leniency, but a federal judge said he would not reward someone who hindered the investigation into the exposure of a CIA operative. The operative's husband had accused the administration of twisting intelligence to justify the Iraq war.

Defense attorneys sought to have the sentence delayed until appeals run out. A delay also would give Bush more time to consider calls from Libby's allies to pardon the longtime aide.

Walton said he saw no reason to put the sentence on hold but agreed to consider it. He scheduled a hearing for a week from Thursday.

So, no date has been set for when Libby must report to prison -- but, as he was leaving the court house a protester shouted: "You should go right to jail!"

I couldn't agree more!