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Leahy on Bush Commutation
From Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT):
“The President’s muted words and deeds in the aftermath of this conviction pale in comparison to what he said before the investigation was launched."The President has the constitutional power to do this. But accountability has been in short supply in the Bush Administration, and this commutation fits that pattern. It is emblematic of a White House that sees itself as being above the law."
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Comments (17)
cemmcs wrote on July 2, 2007 7:42 PM:Great! Now, he can get back to work doing the people... err... uh... I mean doing the people's business.
poetry wrote on July 2, 2007 7:45 PM:Isn't it time, now, to talk of DISBARRING Libby from ever practicing law again?
blujay wrote on July 2, 2007 7:50 PM:you have to lie about a blow job to be dis-barred, silly
Ernie wrote on July 2, 2007 7:51 PM:re poetry:
The commutation sentence does not remove the stain of conviction of a felony. Therefore I do not believe Scooter can practice law without a full pardon. No matter. He will make more money than ever as a consultant to any number of neocon think tanks, and get paid $50,000 for a speech to right wing enclaves. He has entered the pantheon of neocon saints, and this may be the most severe damage of all to the interest of the people of the USA.
Stop Pissing Me Off Leahy! wrote on July 2, 2007 7:52 PM:I've just gotta laugh. I know BushCo is. They know the Dems are all talk and no action. Thanks for the fancy prose Leahy but, uh, we've all known for some time that Bush is a crooked despot who has taken a dump on The Constitution. That's why we elected you people- to put a stop to his crimes. Glad you're just now catching on. NOW DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT DAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
blujay wrote on July 2, 2007 7:52 PM:You have to lie about a blow job to be dis-barred, silly
blujay wrote on July 2, 2007 7:54 PM:You have to lie about a blow job to be dis-barred, silly.
tekel wrote on July 2, 2007 8:00 PM:He is currently disbarred, and will remain so if his conviction is not ultimately overturned on appeal.
marky wrote on July 2, 2007 8:14 PM:Great, now maybe the Bush administration can comment on the case, surely it is no long under investigation?
Johnsnottoodistracted wrote on July 2, 2007 8:18 PM:The contract signed before he joined was made very clear: will say and do everything told but will not be required to serve any jail time.
Westclox wrote on July 2, 2007 8:19 PM:This is only following through on the contract.Just normal business proceedure.
Note: this in no way hampers the ability to collect the astronomical wealth guarenteed.
Why are even the other-than-Reactionary blogs calling the traitor and felon "Scooter"? In the last hour I must have heard the mindless dolts of the lamestream news bleating "Skewter, skewter, skewter" two hundred times. It's sickening.
If I commit a string of felonies, maybe some treason thrown in, will y'll still call me "Dingo" Kowalski, for ever after?
Irving Liebowitz (that Libby fellah's real name) has been Teflon coated from the beginning. Same as Perle, Feith, Wurmser, Armitage, Wolfowitz, Zakheim, Chertoff, 'Ari' Fleischer, Dov Addington, and War's mighty, snake-lipped cheerleader in chief, William-The-Bloody Kristol. Above blame, above consequences. To this day, no one has taken the degenerate Alan "Sterile Needles Under Their Fingernails" Dershowitz to task for his Bill Of Rights-busting suggestions. No one has asked "Tommy" Franks, or USMC GEN 'Fallujah' Natonsky why Nuremberg shouldn't apply to *them* as well as to Merrikah's enemies.
And if the Murkin people still don't see the jobbing that they've (most recently) sustained, then they truly do deserve to be flushed down the commode of history by the dual-citizenship/special-rules-apply-to-us gang.
Orwell's Intuition wrote on July 2, 2007 9:38 PM:And the GOP talking point is "no underlying crime." There was no underlying crime with Clinton's perjury, either, just a man who was unfaithful to his wife. The bush administration is unfaithful to this entire country.
I hope Abramoff is sitting in his cell, plotting revenge for having to do time while Libby skates.
Sick&Tired wrote on July 2, 2007 9:39 PM:Ok, now this case is over....drag Scooter's ass up to Capitol Hill...he's no longer a part of the Executive Branch, get him under oath again and dare the dipshit to lie again. Have him there testifying every day for the rest of the Bush presidency.
nepeta wrote on July 2, 2007 9:47 PM:Even though I knew this was going to happen I'm furious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LongTom wrote on July 3, 2007 4:35 AM:Wow. Is Leahy sure? I can hardly contain my excitement at how inspiring and stirring Leahy's words are. NOT.
tockeyhockey wrote on July 3, 2007 9:01 AM:The Dems responses have so far shown them to be mealy-mouthed quislings. And I'm a lifelong Democrat. Where's our DeLay, calling the president a "scumbag?" This is just disheartening and pathetic. I've hated Nader's guts for 7 years. Could it be he was right?
i love it... the "pit bull" leahy is really just a poodle.
the president doesn't "think" he's above the law. he IS above the law. leahy's impotence is proof positive of this fact.
Uncle Don wrote on July 3, 2007 12:23 PM:Just to set the record straight, it wasn't Tom DeLay who called President Clinton a "scumbag." It was Dan Burton of Indiana who remains in Congress to this day.
Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald could grant Libby immunity and haul him before a grand jury to testify under oath that Cheney (and Bush) told him to leak Valerie Plame's name in retaliation for her husband's attack on Bush-Cheney lies about the reasons for attacking Iraq.
If Libby refused to testify, that's contempt of court. If he lies under oath, that's perjury and obstruction of justice (again.)