Duuuuh, the criminalization of politics! Duuuuuuhhh!
Enjoy your stay, traitor!

The big question now is whether Bush will pardon him. I think that's highly likely. What are the downsides for him to do so? I don't see any--these people could care less how it looks, as long as they've gotten away with it.

I want to see those letters.

Oh - and Iggy, I imagine were this a Democrat(ic) administration, he'd have already hanged by now...

letters at ThinkProgress (you'll need a strong stomach)

I. Liar Libby will get his pardon. I'm betting on January 19, 2009.

Libby is in an interesting position with respect to the Democratic congress (where he could still be called to testify if anyone decided to hold hearings). A pardon for his past crimes wouldn't insulate him from prosecution for additional acts of perjury or contempt.

The downside for Bush giving Libby a pardon?

His approval rating would sink at least 4 points down to 24%.

What a great day: The Libby sentencing means the court will disclose who wrote the letters on Libby's behalf. Reviewing these letters, we may be able to find out:

A. Atty Standards of conduct: Potential Legal Conflicts

Which lawyers wrote letters; what their motivation might have been to say specifically what they did in their letter; are there any clients of law firms who wrote letters on Libby's behalf who have an adversarial interest which counsel has not disclosed, or should have disclosed before taking the client;

B. Fatal Disclosures By Counsel

A chance to review comments which lawyers wrote on the naive assumption those comments would not be publicly examined;

C. Word Parsing Consistent within GOP?

A chance to compare the word parsing Senator White House identified in Kyle Sampson's comments; and compare this language that to whether those who wrote similar language to the court in re Libby had similar themes and word parsing; is the word parsing and commentary in the language strangely similar to some of the DOJ e-mails; are the words/phrasing/syntax in [a] the DoJ e-mails consistent with [b] the letters to the court suggesting that outside counsel did not, as represented, write the letters, but the letters were written by, coordinated with DoJ Staff and the Vice President's office.

D. GOP Leadership of Libby Sentencing Letters

A chance to compare the themes in the letters; and speculate to what extent the RNC e-mails might have been used to coordinate this media campaign of over 150 letters to the court;

E. Evaluate DoJ leaks To GOP

Get a sense of the kinds of issues Fitzgerald may have been secretly discussing; then compare them with the lines of comments/themes in the letters to assess [a] were there leaks from the grand Jury; [b] is there a leak inside Fitzgerald's team to the GOP; [c] is there a means by which classified/confidential DoJ internal memoranda are captured by external entities, then sent to the GOP, which are turned into media messages/themes within the memos

F. Identify Former WH Legal Counsel Anonymous Letters, failures to disclose interest in VP

Legal counsel who may have written letters to the court may have a specif word choice that appears on the Internet. Examine the language of each letter to assess which public websites they may be anonymously posting; and identify whether those Internet postings are linked with undisclosed [as what may or may not be required] GOP funds to public media messages on the Internet. It will be interesting to determine whether the language in any of the letters to the court in re Libby matches other language on the Internet that we thought was from a "private" sources.

G. Identify Online Posting by GOP-Affiliated Legal Counsel

What is the court going to say when outside counsel is anonymously posting on an Internet site, incorrectly assuming their information will not be linked to their law firm, but publicly challenged for making fatal disclosures which the firm partners were not adequately informed prior to them filing a claim, which the complicit counsel did not disclose prior to filing the frivolous legal case?

H. Identify "private causes of action" in civil cases primarily linked with the GOP political interests to stifle public discussion on public issues, not a bonafide legal claim related to a private or civil matter

It will be interesting to see counsel allegedly complicit with online harassment, misleading public statements explain [a] the same word choice in the Libby letters; [b] their law firms' connection with information that is fatal to the legal defenses of the President; [c] fatally discloses inner workings of the NSA and White House, on the false assumption their disclosures about former clients would not be traced to the law firm; and [d] the similarity in the language on a public website to information clearly linking counsel to fatal admissions, unprofessional conduct, and attempts to dissuade witnesses from cooperating with Congress on war crimes issues and other investigations.

F. Assist Congress In Identifying Key Terms To Search in RNC E-mails

Consider one of the problems of searching the RNC e-mails: We're told that many things will not be discoverable.

What could a law firm possibly do to justify a partners' conduct when: [a] the language within a not-yet-released RNC e-mail matches [b] the word choices within the LIbby letters; which matches a [c] secret filing with the FISA court; and [d] matches the legal language in a "confidential" memoranda given to the President related to FISA violations, rendition, prisoner abuse, or other illegal activity that counsel says, "We can't talk about because it's secret," when, in fact, it is illegally classified, and cannot be lawfully hidden under any rule, law, executive order, or confidentiality agreement with any intermediary or firm.

Has counsel represented to Congress, any Court, the FISA judges, or any public media that they cannot comment on a matter; yet, they've fatally commented on the Internet on the very issue they said they could not comment on?

Have there been inadequate disclosures that the information presented as an 'anonymous" or "concerned citizen" was crafted by GOP legal counsel with a legal interest in not defending just their client, but hide their law firms relationship with rendition, prisoner abuse, intermediaries, NSA surveillance, unlawful NSLs, illegal warrants, or coordination with the US government to implement prisoner abuse, war crimes, and breaches of Geneva?

What's going to happen when legal counsel memoranda to the court is affirmatively linked with online information the firm partners were told did not exist; yet the Law firms have been affirmatively linked with that fatal disclosure they had previously promised, and had a duty under the DC Bar rules, to keep confidential?

How many attorney-client confidences will be fatally revealed, once the law firms letters to the Libby court are affirmatively linked with online information the firm patterns did not think could be traced to their law firm?

When an "anonymous poster" talks in "generalities" but they are really talking around a legal issues related to a specific client; yet they are assuming that nobody will know [a] who they are; [b] who the client is; or [c] what the legal issue is . .. yet, all that goes out the window when [d] the letters to the Libby court are [e] linked with their anonymous postings; and [f] it is possibly to pinpoint the legal issue, client, and specific fatal disclosures the attorneys have been making about online legal issues they had a duty to protect?

SUMMARY

Legal counsel allegedly complicit with war crimes planning have fatally disclosed information about the President's internal e-mail systems. Unfortunately, they did not think that these public disclosures would be linked to their firm; nor that their firms business practises/practrice area expertise would be compared what he white House contracts with that firm.

Any legal counsel who has been complicit with war crimes planning, and can be shown to have posted anonymously information which they had a duty to protect, but have fatally disclosed, is admissible not just against the client, but against the legal counsel. It remains to be understood whether counsel did or did not timely withdraw once legal counsel knew, or should have know3, their legal advise was used to advance illegal activity.

Any sliver of information which can be gleaned about any attorney who wrote to the Libby sentencing court can be enterally compared to all data released in re war crimes, FISA violations, DOJ Staff counsel misconduct, WH-EOP-DOJ OLC memoranda on rendition, and other breaches of Geneva. If you are aware of specific information in any of the Libby e-mails which might possibly shed light on any legal issue, violation of Geneva, unlawful planning, or other possible misconduct by any attorney, you are encouraged to seek counsel, and share your findings with Congress and the American public.

You may presume that all information in the letters in re Libby Sentencing may be possible war crimes evidence. There is no statute of limitations for war crimes. All legal cousnel memoranda in re Libby's sentencing may be eternally examined for possible evidence to support war crimes indictments.

Exposing the scandal was surely a good thing, but along the way the public may have lost something as well.

This ruling rests on the testimony of journalists who did not want to reveal sources. Libby was caught on legal technicalities after this DOJ gave the go-ahead to put Miller in the slammer and Russert on the stand.

Russert was not happy, and he may have paid it back by spending a whole show on the US Attorney scandal.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newswar/

Yes, no one is indicted for outtng a covert agent and killing an entire CIA operation on the frontline of this 'war on terror.'

I just don't get how anyone can say Fitz is doing the people's work!!!

Cheney et al WALKED. No, they SKATED.

There is no justice.

A full flushing and airing of the entire Administration must be done, and eventually I think the Hague will be involved where then we will see the collision between American Nationalism and American Idealism.

chisholm,

The single thing standing between Irwin and a Presidential pardon is the boy-king's ego.

Georgeoergeorge's hubris allows for no room to admit that the poo he has been crapping and throwing at the 'Mericem Peepul' and their government has any odor at all.

I remain fairly certain that if Libby the Lawless is to expect a pardon, it will be at the hands of the NEXT BUSH Administration (The one scheduled after the next CLINTON Administration).

Carville and Matalin are not the yin and yang because they are the same person pointed in different directions. They are the division between two opposites.

I love it when they turn on each other! Here's a post by Lucianne Goldberg on her own site. The old painted whore is incensed that all those right wingers are actually mad at W!

"Reply 36 - Posted by: Lucianne, 6/5/2007 3:55:29 PM

I am personally closing this thread. If people posting here hate the President so much I invite them to leave this site. There are many other places on the web for you to vent this kind of anger but I have had it with these comments. Write and ask to be blocked. Stop posting. Go away until you get control of your anger or just quit. Any decision is fine but I will no longer tolerate comments like this. Take it or leave it. This site has always been a meeting place for like minded people. If you are no longer one of those. Leave."

HAhahahAH i love it

I already got leaked copies of Scooter's friends letters last Friday. Here’s one:

Dear Judgie-Wudgie:

Please don't put Scooter-Pooter in the sandbox too long. Judie-Wwudie lubbes him so very much.

Judith Miller

And another:

Hey, Reggerino:

I’m the Decider, see? And, I decide that you should be replaced by … Tim Griffin.

George W. Decider, judge-commander-in-chief
Cc: Alberto Gonzales, head flunky and judge-hirer/firer

And this one:

Dear Judge Walton:

I. Lewis Libby has been defending the United States valiantly through his official work, so that we can fight liberal judges over in Iraq rather than fighting them here.

You, sir, are a traitor to our country.

Richard B. Cheney
Vice President of the United States

And one more:

Dear Judge Walton:

You remember that phone call you made three weeks ago???

I do.

Gen. Michael Hayden
Director of Central Intelligence
Former director, National Security Agency

Judge Walton is going to make him go to the slammer while awaiting his appeal. Having to read that 30 page self-serving memorandum and those 150 letters was cruel and unusual punishment for any judge.

...... St Libby--protector of children, liberator of the Eastern Bloc, mentor--give me a break.

There is such an abundance of knavery of all kinds to be exposed and punished in this administration, I wonder if it's possible to do more than scratch the surface before Democrats take control of the executive and legislative branches (one hopes)in 2009, when the power of the pardon will be out of Bush's hands?

Mightn't Harry Truman's war profiteering committee be the model for what's needed to do the job of cleansing and retribution beginning in 2009? If the process takes four or eight years to complete, that's okay by me. If their ambition is to drown government in a bathtub, why shouldn't we drown them in their own slime?

"You may presume that all information in the letters in re Libby Sentencing may be possible war crimes evidence. There is no statute of limitations for war crimes. All legal cousnel memoranda in re Libby's sentencing may be eternally examined for possible evidence to support war crimes indictments.

"Posted by:
Date: June 5, 2007 12:57 PM"

You may both presume and conclude that the letters will contain nothing pertaining to any of that, or to the life of the letter writer, except for their identity, because the letters will not be in the form of legal documents -- "pleadings" -- or about anything other than support for the defense contention that "Scooter" has done good, is of "good character," etc.

Your conspirabunk is off-topic, heavyhanded and pretentious nonsense, and tiresome.

"I just don't get how anyone can say Fitz is doing the people's work!!!

"Cheney et al WALKED. No, they SKATED.

"There is no justice.

"Posted by: Robin
Date: June 5, 2007 01:25 PM"

Fitzpatrick has successfully prosecuted and imprisoned both Democrats and Republicans, including Chicago public officials under Daley and IL Governor Ryan, with equal zeal and skill.

He has not only that proven track record, but also show that a US AG can act without political considerations.

And I've seen nothing to indicate that he has ended his investigation.