Pardon me? Bush commutes Libby sentence. Fucker.
Noah Walden
Bush spares Libby from 2 1/2-year prison term
President leaves fine, probation intact for convicted ex-White House Aide
WASHINGTON - President Bush commuted the sentence of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on Monday, sparing him from a 2½-year prison term that Bush said was excessive.
Bush's move came hours after a federal appeals panel ruled Libby could not delay his prison term in the CIA leak case. That meant Libby was likely to have to report to prison soon and put new pressure on the president, who had been sidestepping calls by Libby's allies to pardon the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.
"I respect the jury's verdict," Bush said in a statement. "But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive. Therefore, I am commuting the portion of Mr. Libby's sentence that required him to spend thirty months in prison."
Bush left intact a $250,000 fine and two years probation for Libby, and Bush said his action still "leaves in place a harsh punishment for Mr. Libby."
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Libby was convicted in March of lying to authorities and obstructing the investigation into the 2003 leak of CIA operative's identity. He was the highest-ranking White House official ordered to prison since the Iran-Contra affair.
Bush said of Cheney's former aide: "The reputation he gained through his years of public service and professional work in the legal community is forever damaged. His wife and young children have also suffered immensely. He will remain on probation. The significant fines imposed by the judge will remain in effect. The consequences of his felony conviction on his former life as a lawyer, public servant, and private citizen will be long-lasting."
This breaking news story will be updated.
Simon Taylor
All too predictable.
Bush spares Libby from 2 1/2-year prison term
President leaves fine, probation intact for convicted ex-White House Aide
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WASHINGTON - President Bush commuted the sentence of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on Monday, sparing him from a 2 1/2-year prison term that Bush said was excessive.
Kyle Curtis
"I've been watching a lot of FOX News. Did you know that every night thousands of gay immigrants sneak over our border and unplug our brain-dead women?" - Homer Simpson
Jsmog
"Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here." -Melvin Udall
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Noah Walden
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Noah Walden
There's plenty more where that came from, but I know it's pointless to try to penetrate the world of lies and delusion you tools inhabit. You've bought all the big lies, so now you get the small ones for free.
Of course no source is credible. I could quote 10 CIA agents-like the 10 who testified to congress about Plane's undercover status-and you would dismiss it. Quote the NY Times, well, that's leftist propaganda. Maybe I should stick with quoting Fox News if I want any traction.
I really hope you guys never view any real truth in your pathetic lives. You'd have to pluck your eyes out for showing what you know in your heart not to be true.
Jsmog
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Kyle Curtis
you know, the pardon makes sense. Shrub did say he'd "take care" of what ever senior administration figure was caught behind the leak.
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Kyle Curtis
http://www.conservapedia.com/Irve_Lewis_Libby_Jr.
Almost from the beginning of his trial the President was encouraged to pardon Libby. Among those calling for pardon were William F. Buckley, Jr, Fred Thompson, Cal Thomas, Ann Coulter, Jack Kemp, Tom Delay.[9] and Robert Bauer, general counsel to Barack Obama[10] But the trial continued and sentence was announced without presidential interference. As decisions were being made regarding the possibility of bail, many believed (incorrectly) President Bush's hand would be forced, that he would have to grant a pardon in order to spare Libby from entering prison. [11] On July 2, 2007, President Bush commuted Libby's prison sentence. This means that while Libby will serve no jail time, he will still have to pay the fine and the conviction will remain on his record. [12] This decision was decried by Democratic Party Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. [13]
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Olbermann: Bush, Cheney should resign
'I didn't vote for him, but he's my president, and I hope he does a good job.' - John Wayne
"I didn't vote for him," an American once said, "But he's my president, and I hope he does a good job."
That--on this eve of the 4th of July--is the essence of this democracy, in 17 words. And that is what President Bush threw away yesterday in commuting the sentence of Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
The man who said those 17 words--improbably enough--was the actor John Wayne. And Wayne, an ultra-conservative, said them, when he learned of the hair's-breadth election of John F. Kennedy instead of his personal favorite, Richard Nixon in 1960.
"I didn't vote for him but he's my president, and I hope he does a good job."
The sentiment was doubtlessly expressed earlier, but there is something especially appropriate about hearing it, now, in Wayne's voice: The crisp matter-of-fact acknowledgement that we have survived, even though for nearly two centuries now, our Commander-in-Chief has also served, simultaneously, as the head of one political party and often the scourge of all others.
We as citizens must, at some point, ignore a president's partisanship. Not that we may prosper as a nation, not that we may achieve, not that we may lead the world--but merely that we may function.
But just as essential to the seventeen words of John Wayne, is an implicit trust--a sacred trust: That the president for whom so many did not vote, can in turn suspend his political self long enough, and for matters imperative enough, to conduct himself solely for the benefit of the entire Republic.
Our generation's willingness to state "we didn't vote for him, but he's our president, and we hope he does a good job," was tested in the crucible of history, and earlier than most.
And in circumstances more tragic and threatening. And we did that with which history tasked us.
We enveloped our President in 2001.And those who did not believe he should have been elected--indeed those who did not believe he had been elected--willingly lowered their voices and assented to the sacred oath of non-partisanship.
And George W. Bush took our assent, and re-configured it, and honed it, and shaped it to a razor-sharp point and stabbed this nation in the back with it.
Were there any remaining lingering doubt otherwise, or any remaining lingering hope, it ended yesterday when Mr. Bush commuted the prison sentence of one of his own staffers.
Did so even before the appeals process was complete; did so without as much as a courtesy consultation with the Department of Justice; did so despite what James Madison--at the Constitutional Convention--said about impeaching any president who pardoned or sheltered those who had committed crimes "advised by" that president; did so without the slightest concern that even the most detached of citizens must look at the chain of events and wonder: To what degree was Mr. Libby told: break the law however you wish--the President will keep you out of prison?
In that moment, Mr. Bush, you broke that fundamental com-pact between yourself and the majority of this nation's citizens--the ones who did not cast votes for you. In that moment, Mr. Bush, you ceased to be the President of the United States. In that moment, Mr. Bush, you became merely the President of a rabid and irresponsible corner of the Republican Party. And this is too important a time, Sir, to have a commander-in-chief who puts party over nation.
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This has been, of course, the gathering legacy of this Administration. Few of its decisions have escaped the stain of politics. The extraordinary Karl Rove has spoken of "a permanent Republican majority," as if such a thing--or a permanent Democratic majority--is not antithetical to that upon which rests: our country, our history, our revolution, our freedoms.
Yet our Democracy has survived shrewder men than Karl Rove. And it has survived the frequent stain of politics upon the fabric of government. But this administration, with ever-increasing insistence and almost theocratic zealotry, has turned that stain into a massive oil spill.
The protection of the environment is turned over to those of one political party, who will financially benefit from the rape of the environment. The protections of the Constitution are turned over to those of one political party, who believe those protections unnecessary and extravagant and quaint.
Kyle Curtis
http://www.conservapedia.com/Irve_Lewis_Libby_Jr.#Libby_and_Presidential_Clemency
Libby and Presidential Clemency
Almost from the beginning of his trial the President was encouraged to pardon Libby. Among those calling for pardon were William F. Buckley, Jr, Fred Thompson, Cal Thomas, Ann Coulter, Jack Kemp, Tom Delay.[7] and Robert Bauer, general counsel to Barack Obama[8] But the trial continued and sentence was announced without presidential interference. As decisions were being made regarding the possibility of bail, many believed President Bush's hand would be forced, that he would have to grant a pardon in order to spare Libby from entering prison. [9] On July 2, 2007, after a ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that Libby's prison sentence couldn't be suspended as the appeals process was pursued, President Bush's hand was forced and he commuted Libby's prison sentence. This means that while Libby will serve no jail time, he will still have to pay the fine and the conviction will remain on his record. [10] This decision was decried by Democratic Party Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama [11] and sixty-percent of registered Republicans, though supported by others.
Kyle Curtis
anybody got some good language for an entry on Project for a New American Century?