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Scooter Libby faces sentencing this morning. Just in time, here is a timeline of the CIA leak to refresh you before today’s sentencing. (Associated Press)
As Bradley Schlozman prepares to testify this afternoon, the Justice Department is girding for further congressional insight into allegations that election laws have been systematically ignored in recent history. (McClatchy Newspapers)
A memo sent to the White House warns that the U.S. is set to dramatically hinder its ability to monitor global warming. The Department of Defense is scaling back a program that has been crucial for American scientists who monitored climate change. The new program will refocus its resources on weather prediction. (Associated Press)
A recent document handed to the House Judiciary Committee demonstrates how aggressively Carol Lam was forced out of the Justice Department following her firing in December last year. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Rep. Bill Jefferson (D-LA) was indicted on sixteen counts yesterday, following on an investigation that has continued for two years. (Chicago Tribune)
In a blow to jurisdiction precedent crucial to future Guantanamo trials, a military judge tossed the charges brought against Omar Khadr. Khadr’s case had raised concerns worldwide, as he was fifteen when first taken into custody by American soldiers. (McClatchy Newspapers)
Comments (7)
Steve5117 wrote on June 5, 2007 11:53 AM:30 months for Libby.... where are the letters?
Samsara wrote on June 5, 2007 12:22 PM:He should not have been allowed to walk out of the courthouse. A 30 months sentence means nothing if you don't serve a day. Being disbarred is not much of a penalty if you have connections in Dubai. Come-on Judge Walton, finish the work. Put Scooter in jail like you would anyone else in similar circumstances.
paul lukasiak wrote on June 5, 2007 1:57 PM:re: partisan enforcement of federal election laws....
In 2004 in Florida, literally hundreds of college students on at least four college campuses were fraudulently registered without their knowledge. While a significant number of these frauds involved registering people as Republicans against there will (sometimes resulting in a change of an existing party registration), in some cases students were re-registered in a DIFFERENT COUNTY without their knowing it after signing a petition in favor of the legalization of medical marijuana.
Suspicions were initially raised when a large number of photocopied registration forms were handed in to Hillsborough County -- and it included a highly suspicious number of African Americans who had registered as Republicans. The election supervisor called a couple of dozen people whose forms were turned in, and found out that the registrations were fraudulent.
At about the same time, a former employee of ACORN claimed that the organization had committed registration fraud....and a Florida Department of Law Enforcement Task Force was formed.
It turned out that the charges against ACORN were completely spurious -- and that the person who had made allegations against ACORN had been fired because he'd cashed checks fraudulently.
But the evidence of Republican registration fraud were well substantiated -- let no charges were ever filed by either the state or federal government.
Two companies with strong GOP ties AMO, and JSM, Inc, were behind the fraudulent registrations. JSM was also implicated in other federal crimes involving submitting fraudulent pettions to get Nader on the ballot in a number of states. Yet JSM wasn't charged for that either...
If you want to know why people like Miller in the Northern District of Florida and Marino in Central Pennsylvania got taken off the USA firing lists, one need only consider their non-prosecution of criminal conduct by GOP connected "election services" firms to understand how they kept their jobs...
mo2 wrote on June 5, 2007 1:58 PM:We might hear Schlozman testimony here in five minutes:
mo2 wrote on June 5, 2007 2:19 PM:http://www.capitolhearings.org/
The link above did not work. SJC hearing starts in 15 minutes on CSPAN radio:
SPENCER ADAMS wrote on June 5, 2007 2:24 PM:http://www.c-span.org/radio/web/schedule.asp
Steve 5117:
I think that these are the letters you're talking about.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/jud/libby/letters.pdf
ed pefferman wrote on June 7, 2007 3:36 PM:Scooter Libby should be shot as a traitor, not jailed as a liar.
His boss, ElDuce should be hung from a lamp post.