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Countdown: How will history remember Bush, Cheney and Libby
Keith Olbermann is back just in time to fry the White House. I’m not sure that we learned anything new but the analysis and interviews with Joe Wilson and John Dean are worth the price of admission. John Dean contemplates how history will remember the Bush White House.
Personally, I believe that I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby has a pardon in his pocket. The Republicans have looked out for their own for years. Look at Tom Delay. If anyone deserves to be thrown under the bus it would be Delay but he continues to be embraced by Republicans. Let’s not forget G. Gordon Liddy. The only question is when will Bush pardon him. Will it be before November of 2008. If it is before November of 2008 (August - November), Bush will be giving the White House, the House and Senate to the Democrats. If it is after or really soon, then the Republicans have a shot. Remember how Cheney and Bush admire loyalty?
Maybe a really, really bad day in the White House
The Carpetbagger Report ponders this question. He is a point which brings a smile to my face. Think about this - Scooter Libby verdict, 9 Americans died in Iraq yesterday, Walter Reed is clearly showing America that the White House doesn’t seem to care about the soldiers.
Fired US Attorney testifies on Capital Hill
It sure seems like US Attorney David Iglesias was pressured. A call at home from a US Senator who has never spoken to you before and who hangs up on you…that’s my definition of pressure. CREW has filed ethics complains against Rep. Wilson and Senator Domenici.
From WaPo:
Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias told the Senate Judiciary Committee today that Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.) called him on Oct. 16 — while she was locked in a tight battle for reelection — to say she had heard that his ongoing criminal investigation into local Albuquerque Democrats may have produced indictments that Iglesias was sitting on.
“What can you tell me about sealed indictments?” Wilson asked, according to Iglesias’s sworn testimony before the committee today.
Iglesias said “red flags” immediately went up in his mind about the conversation because it was unethical for him to talk about an ongoing criminal investigation, particularly on matters as sensitive as the timing of indictments.
“I was evasive and unresponsive,” he said of his conversation with Wilson. She became upset, according to Iglesias, and ended the conversation.
“Well, I guess I’ll have to take your word for it,” she said, according to Iglesias. (more…)
Libby trial: Patrick Fitzgerald speaks
Patrick Fitzgerald has done a very good in investigating and prosecuting this case.
Libby Guilty
Update -
I thought that the evidence was a slam dunk (pun intended). It will be interesting to see what the jury was talking about for 10 days. Now, before everybody gets all happy. Yes, Libby is guilty. He could a maximum of 25 years in jail and $1 million fine but we live in America. The rich have plenty of ways to stay out of jail. There will be appeals. There is always a possibility that Bush will pardon Libby. Bush clearly isn’t worried about his popularity (polling at 29%). So, my response to the Libby verdict is guarded. Happy but Guarded.
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From CNN.com :
Former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby has been found guilty on four of five counts in his perjury and obstruction of justice trial.Libby, 56, faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison and a fine of $1 million.
The five-count indictment against the former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney alleges perjury, obstruction of justice and making false statements to the FBI and a grand jury investigating how Valerie Plame was outed as a CIA operative.
Libby is not accused of exposing Plame. He resigned in 2005 after the grand jury indicted him.
Prosecutors contended Libby disclosed Plame’s covert profession to reporters as part of a plan to discredit her husband, Joseph Wilson, a former ambassador who alleged that the Bush administration twisted some intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war.
Wilson, who conducted a CIA-sponsored trip to Niger, wrote in a July 2003 New York Times editorial that he found no evidence Iraq sought to buy uranium from the African nation, as the administration claimed.
The jury was down to 11 members — seven women and four men. A week ago, one of the jurors revealed that she had obtained outside information that prompted the judge to disqualify her.
The defense said it would accept 11 jurors to avoid having to start deliberations over with an alternate. The prosecution objected, but U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton overruled, and the panel has continued with one chair empty.
Testimony and evidence in the trial began January 23.
Coultergeist: Today’s worst person the world
Keith Olbermann is on vacation but actually called in to do Today’s Worst Person the World. The line up is a very good one. Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. They are hard to beat.
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Errington C. Thompson, MD, is a surgeon, scholar, fulltime sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats...
