White_Male_Canada
09-04-2006, 06:13 AM
The Big Lie Dies an ignominious death as the left wing neo-marxists fall deathly silent. :P
Time for Prez to pardon Libby
By Boston Herald editorial staff
Sunday, September 3, 2006
Now that the top deputy to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell has admitted he was the source of the revelation that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA, the case against Lewis “Scooter” Libby has become too trivial to pursue.
President Bush should pardon Libby, who was chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney until he was indicted on charges that he misled investigators and a grand jury about his conversations with reporters on the Plame story. (Libby asserts that he was so busy he simply misremembered who said what to whom about who sent Plame’s husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, on an intelligence mission about Saddam Hussein’s hunt for uranium - a mission whose findings Wilson lied about.)
Chances of a conviction in Libby’s January trial, never good, are now nil. The special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, already has said no crime was committed in the disclosure of Plame’s identity. Why force Libby to keep the lawyer’s billing meter ticking?
According to a new book by two Washington Post reporters, when Robert Novak disclosed in July 2003 that Plame worked for the CIA, Richard Armitage, deputy secretary of state, realized he had been Novak’s source. He told Powell, and later the FBI. The State Department’s lawyer, William Howard Taft IV, then told the Justice Department. Taft told then-White House counsel Albert Gonzales that State had shared “information” with Justice and asked if Gonzalez wanted to know more. Gonzalez, unbelievably, said no, leaving the president to look stupid.
Special prosecutors find out everything Justice knows when they come on board. Fitzgerald, then, knew all along who had disclosed Plame’s name but badgered Libby and White House adviser Karl Rove for months, feeding the malice of the Bush haters who kept snarling about a White House conspiracy - now revealed as a fairy tale - to “out” a CIA agent, and clapping New York Times reporter Judith Miller in jail to boot for refusing to talk about her sources.
Powell, Armitage and Taft have left the government and can’t be disciplined. But their disgrace is clear.
http://news.bostonherald.com/editorial/view.bg?articleid=155683
Time for Prez to pardon Libby
By Boston Herald editorial staff
Sunday, September 3, 2006
Now that the top deputy to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell has admitted he was the source of the revelation that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA, the case against Lewis “Scooter” Libby has become too trivial to pursue.
President Bush should pardon Libby, who was chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney until he was indicted on charges that he misled investigators and a grand jury about his conversations with reporters on the Plame story. (Libby asserts that he was so busy he simply misremembered who said what to whom about who sent Plame’s husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, on an intelligence mission about Saddam Hussein’s hunt for uranium - a mission whose findings Wilson lied about.)
Chances of a conviction in Libby’s January trial, never good, are now nil. The special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, already has said no crime was committed in the disclosure of Plame’s identity. Why force Libby to keep the lawyer’s billing meter ticking?
According to a new book by two Washington Post reporters, when Robert Novak disclosed in July 2003 that Plame worked for the CIA, Richard Armitage, deputy secretary of state, realized he had been Novak’s source. He told Powell, and later the FBI. The State Department’s lawyer, William Howard Taft IV, then told the Justice Department. Taft told then-White House counsel Albert Gonzales that State had shared “information” with Justice and asked if Gonzalez wanted to know more. Gonzalez, unbelievably, said no, leaving the president to look stupid.
Special prosecutors find out everything Justice knows when they come on board. Fitzgerald, then, knew all along who had disclosed Plame’s name but badgered Libby and White House adviser Karl Rove for months, feeding the malice of the Bush haters who kept snarling about a White House conspiracy - now revealed as a fairy tale - to “out” a CIA agent, and clapping New York Times reporter Judith Miller in jail to boot for refusing to talk about her sources.
Powell, Armitage and Taft have left the government and can’t be disciplined. But their disgrace is clear.
http://news.bostonherald.com/editorial/view.bg?articleid=155683