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Re: hmmm.... said by fAcEtIOUs:said by pnh102:The only real "outrage" over Bush bypassing FISA comes from the looney left that simply seeks to attack him at every possible opportunity. I am sure that when Obama has to deal with a crisis and decides to sidestep FISA, most of Obama's supporters aren't going to care. Good post. The whistleblower in this case should go to prison. Really? How do you feel about someone outing a covert CIA operative? Should they be shot, or given life in prison? What do you think? |
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Mount Airy, MD | said by ross:Really? How do you feel about someone outing a covert CIA operative? Should they be shot, or given life in prison? What do you think? Of course Richard Armitage should be prosecuted. Why he was allowed to get away with this we'll never know.
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| said by pnh102:said by ross:Really? How do you feel about someone outing a covert CIA operative? Should they be shot, or given life in prison? What do you think? Of course Richard Armitage should be prosecuted. Why he was allowed to get away with this we'll never know. You mean this Bush minion:
"Armitage has been questioned several times, but is not expected to be indicted by the federal grand jury investigating who outed CIA spy Valerie Plame to journalists in 2003, sources said." However, Armitage's "testimony could hurt" I. Lewis Scooter Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's "indicted former chief aide," or Karl Rove, President George W. Bush's "political guru," Bazinet and Meek wrote. "Two sources familiar with the case said Armitage, Rove and Libby all had contacts with the press about Plame. Unlike Rove and Libby, Armitage appears to have tried to dissuade reporters from writing about her." (Source: »www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?ti···Armitage )
I'm for trying the Boss who gave the orders for this, rather than the dupe who did the deed at his behest. |
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Mount Airy, MD | Yawn.
Richard Armitage admitted that he "leaked" Mrs. Plame's identity. Patrick Fitzgerald knew this. The fact that Fitzgerald did not prosecute Armitage shows that Fitzgerald did not believe that a crime was committed in that regard.
As for Scooter Libby, he was only convicted of charges related to not being able to tell the same story to a grand jury. Had he done the correct thing and simply said he couldn't recall anything, he'd not have been in any legal trouble. He was never prosecuted for and never convicted of leaking Mrs. Plame's identity.
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1 edit | said by pnh102:Yawn. Richard Armitage admitted that he "leaked" Mrs. Plame's identity. Patrick Fitzgerald knew this. The fact that Fitzgerald did not prosecute Armitage shows that Fitzgerald did not believe that a crime was committed in that regard. As for Scooter Libby, he was only convicted of charges related to not being able to tell the same story to a grand jury. Had he done the correct thing and simply said he couldn't recall anything, he'd not have been in any legal trouble. He was never prosecuted for and never convicted of leaking Mrs. Plame's identity. "Yawn", indeed.
Just like all the other criminals in the Bush administration, including Bush himself, each has been pardoned, had their sentence commuted, or has never been brought to justice at all.
Doesn't make any of them any less culpable for their criminal acts. Unless they are tried and, hopefully, convicted, sentenced and imprisoned, there will eventually be no rule of law at all, for anyone. It's hard to maintain respect for law and order amongst the governed when the privileged elect brazenly flaunt their contempt for it. |
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