Bush commutes Libby's sentence

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.

[Cheryl]

Let's just arrest them all and turn them over to the Hague.

[Groucho]

another grand decisive action from the grand wazoo who promised to "get to the bottom of this"

well, are we at the bottom yet?

let's remember that Richard Nixon claimed executive privilege
as well.. gee, who EVER thought they'd be nostalgic for the
days of the Nixon administration!

impeach. then PROSECUTE. that is the ONLY solution.

[Joe]

So, the president can commit an act of treason and then claim Executive privilege?

[Nathan]

my god is this still going on. maybe people should quit complaining about the president and start looking at the congress which is really wasting our time and money. There was no crime here and the leaker was armitage from the clinton camp. there end of the story. oh and while we're at it the president can fire any judges he wants whether politically motivated or not. there just saved congress millions of tax payer dollars in these specticle hearings. now how about trying to find a way to cut our gas prices or a way to bring the country together instead of being further divided. Dems want to complain about the president when they should be looking at their own for wasting our time and money

[Chrisb]

The law clearly states that it's only illegal to "out" someone within 5 years of their service as an Officer. And Fitzgerald already uncovered pretty much everything. Why are they wasting tax dollars harrasing people for what is not a crime? You can call them jerks but not criminals since it was after 5 years. what is the point of all this?
At a time when congress enjoys single digit approval ratings, the first time in history, maybe they need to take a breather and realize the partisan hatred and ridiculous investigations are part of the problem.

[Nathan]

wow there really are some intellectuals posting on this thing. he never committed treason please stop and actually read facts about things before commenting based on pure emotion and your opinion. is bush a great president no absolutely not is he evil again no and absolutely not. the whole problem with bush is not that he's done a lot wrong it's that the democratic party has become so elitist and power hungry that they still can't believe someone of lesser intelligence beat their candidates not once but twice. It really is time to get over it and focus on reality not what you want to make up to fit your own self loathing

[Pdamerica org]

JUDGE AGREED PLAME WAS COVERT
Was She or Wasn't She?
Arguing that Libby deserves jail time, Fitzgerald says Plame was a covert agent.
http://tinyurl.com/2o9dvj May 29, 2007

In new court filings, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has finally resolved one of the most disputed issues at the core of the long-running CIA leak controversy: Valerie Plame Wilson, he asserts, was a “covert” CIA officer who repeatedly traveled overseas using a “cover identity” in order to disguise her relationship with the agency.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18927332/site/new...
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A Spy Speaks Out
Former Top CIA Official Tyler Drumheller On "Faulty" Intelligence Claims /
http://tinyurl.com/rle4x / April 23, 2006

"The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy."

Tyler Drumheller

(CBS) When no weapons of mass destruction surfaced in Iraq, President Bush insisted that all those WMD claims before the war were the result of faulty intelligence. But a former top CIA official, Tyler Drumheller — a 26-year veteran of the agency — has decided to do something CIA officials at his level almost never do: Speak out.

He tells correspondent Ed Bradley the real failure was not in the intelligence community but in the White House. He says he saw how the Bush administration, time and again, welcomed intelligence that fit the president's determination to go to war and turned a blind eye to intelligence that did not.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/21/60m...

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Ex-CIA Official Faults Use of Data on Iraq
Intelligence 'Misused' to Justify War, He Says
February 10, 2006 / http://tinyurl.com/azl6w

The former CIA official who coordinated U.S. intelligence on the Middle East until last year has accused the Bush administration of "cherry-picking" intelligence on Iraq to justify a decision it had already reached to go to war, and of ignoring warnings that the country could easily fall into violence and chaos after an invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein.

Paul R Pillar's critique is one of the most severe indictments of White House actions by a former Bush official since Richard C. Clarke, a former National Security Council staff member, went public with his criticism of the administration's handling of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and its failure to deal with the terrorist threat beforehand.

It is also the first time that such a senior intelligence officer has so directly and publicly condemned the administration's handling of intelligence.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...

1948 Smith-Mundt Act The 1948 Smith-Mundt Act prohibited the domestic dissemination of United States government propaganda. The reasoning behind Smith-Mundt was that Congress wanted to be certain that a United States government agency could not brainwash our own citizens as Hitler had done in Germany.

[Pat Riot]

it's long past time to vote out EVERY single incumbent
in Washington DC as well as Springfield - and Chicago's
City Council as well for that matter. Not to mention our
Mayor and the Governor.

Idiots elect these politicians who make life difficult for
the idiots and everybody else all the while feathering
their nests or "replenishing to ol' coffers" as our idiot
in chief would call it.

good or bad: ALL of them have to go before anything
will ever improve.

only with a clean slate could issues such as term limits
and elimination of lobbies for anything and everything except THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA.

it's long past time to close military bases all over the
world where we have absolutely no business being
except to keep the profits flowing for the warmongers.

all the so-called "Patriots" with flag lapel pins and
yellow-ribbon stickers on their SUVs are completely
deluded and they will reap what has been sown just
as much as anybody.

we all see it disappearing right before our eyes and
everybody is talking but nobody is doing anything
except those in power working furiously to ensure
that mass social protest on the level seen during
the 1960's NEVER NEVER EVER are to be allowed
to happen again.

nothing to see here, move along folks.

[Prickly Pear]

Nathan wrote:

my god is this still going on. maybe people should quit complaining about the president and start looking at the congress which is really wasting our time and money. There was no crime here and the leaker was armitage from the clinton camp. there end of the story. oh and while we're at it the president can fire any judges he wants whether politically motivated or not. there just saved congress millions of tax payer dollars in these specticle hearings. now how about trying to find a way to cut our gas prices or a way to bring the country together instead of being further divided. Dems want to complain about the president when they should be looking at their own for wasting our time and money

Nathan,
The issue with him taking Executive Privilege seems to indicate that there is something he would like to not reveal. Bush is not honest! That is the issue here. He has lied to the American people on multiple occassions to get us into a war, to avoid consequences and he needs to be brought to justice. Didn't the Republicans impeach Clinton for lying!?!?!?! Gas prices? GAS PRICES? Sell you SUV and start taking public transit. No one is going to solve the "gas crisis". It's not a crisis if it doesn't go away, get used to the gas prices they are only going to go up! Even McCain said that drilling right off the coast will take ten years to make a difference. Sometimes I think Republicans are delusional!

[jschmo]

Bush is a complete waste. Wait until he is out of office then go after him. Thats right folks, vote McCain and get at least 4 more years of this kind a crap!

[Joel]

Nathan wrote:

my god is this still going on. maybe people should quit complaining about the president and start looking at the congress which is really wasting our time and money. There was no crime here and the leaker was armitage from the clinton camp. there end of the story. oh and while we're at it the president can fire any judges he wants whether politically motivated or not. there just saved congress millions of tax payer dollars in these specticle hearings. now how about trying to find a way to cut our gas prices or a way to bring the country together instead of being further divided. Dems want to complain about the president when they should be looking at their own for wasting our time and money

Typical republican response. Ignore the truth and change the subject. Blame the democrats. Bush is not accountable for anything.

[Brian]

Do these people think we're complete idiots?

[Rick]

Can we impeach him now? Please??
As angry as I am with everything about the Bush Administration, I am furious with the Congressional Democrats who continue to refuse to hold him accountable.

[Mary]

Ever since this democrat congress has been seated they have been WASTING our tax dollars on POLITICAL stunts.

Nobody cares about the Plames. We have $4.50 gallon gas and they are spending time and tax money talking about some CIA desk clerk that has long since left.

We threw the last group out for beign useless, and now I see the replacements are, in many ways, WORSE!

[Larry]

what a joke this administration is

[NMFTL]

Nathan wrote:

my god is this still going on. maybe people should quit complaining about the president and start looking at the congress which is really wasting our time and money. There was no crime here and the leaker was armitage from the clinton camp. there end of the story. oh and while we're at it the president can fire any judges he wants whether politically motivated or not. there just saved congress millions of tax payer dollars in these specticle hearings. now how about trying to find a way to cut our gas prices or a way to bring the country together instead of being further divided. Dems want to complain about the president when they should be looking at their own for wasting our time and money

I am sure you felt the same way when the Rebublican-controlled Congress held the impeachment hearings when Clinton was in office. There was a ton of taxpayer $ wasted on that. If you did not feel the same back then, then you are a hypocrite. I can't wait until Bush is out of office. Either candidate would be a 100% improvement over this retard.

[no name]

GOP Republican Failures wrote:

McCain-McBush III Racist O’Reilly, Fox News, The New Yorker Crisis
McCain-McBush III Housing Crisis
McCain-McBush III U.S. Dollar Crisis
McCain-McBush III Deceptive Administration Crisis
McCain-McBush III Negative World Perception Crisis
McCain-McBush III Iraq War Crisis
McCain-McBush III Iraq War Crisis
McCain-McBush III Iraq War Crisis
McCain-McBush III Wall Street selling American Big Banks to foreign billionaires Crisis giving foreign sweatshop billionaires direct votes in Our Economy, Way of Life and Government
Mission Accomplish McCain-McBush III For Trying To Destroy Our Democracy and Economy
The Multiple Crisis are the fault of Congress and the American People for ALLOWING criminals GOP Republican McBush, Cheney, and Rice to lie, cheat and steal their way into the Highest Office on Earth and remain there for eight years. The Entire World thinks that America was ridiculous for ALLOWING GOP Republican criminals and scoundrels to steal their way into office not once but twice. If you locked three Rock Wellers in a jewelry shop for a eight years without supervision, what would you expect upon returning? Why are Americans surprised that the three scoundrels McBush, Cheney, and Rice have smashed up the place and almost destroyed America in eight years? You should have expected bad things from those criminals eight years ago and STOPPED them back then. Instead of stopping the trillion dollar criminals, the media (O’Reilly, FOX News, The New Yorker) went after the Dixie Chicks, Paris Hilton, Rosie O’Donnel, and Britney Spears. How stupid. Now the media (O’Reilly, FOX News, The New Yorker) pursues Boy George, because he might be a threat. What an incredibly stupid, stupid, and racist media we have. The World is watching and laughing at our stupid media and defunct Wall Street robber barons.

Gee, I can spout nonsense too.

[Nathan]

Actually i did feel that it was a waste of time then too. if our congress would stop playing gotcha with the opposite party then our country as a whole would be better off. we have elected a bunch of children the past 16 years that have pouted when they don't get their way and have used slimy politics to get what they want. and its occurred on both sides. And prickly i don't own an suv and usually do take public transit the claim that republicans are the delusional ones though is kinda funny seeing as democrats are the ones running on the platform that they are going to lower gas prices when in reality the price has skyrocketed since they took over congress. This whole country needs to be fixed unfortunately it's going to take awhile till we get the bushes, cheneys, kerrys, pelosis and reids out and can get people with some decency and common sense in.

[Say the Truth]

jschmo wrote:

Bush is a complete waste. Wait until he is out of office then go after him. Thats right folks, vote McCain and get at least 4 more years of this kind a crap!

Hey Schmo-

How do you figure that McCain is more Bush? They don't agree on much. Maybe you just like to repeat Demo slogans and think you're clever for doing so.

[Lou]

Plame was clearly active and covert.
It is clear to all that Cheney & company outed herand placed her life in danger as well as the operatins she was involved in.
It was all part of the organized Bush attacks on anyone who wpoke out against the tragic Iraq invasion among other events.
Of course Bush will assert everything in order not to let ANY of the documents out.
impeach and go up aainst these fascists as soon as possible.
Remember - when the fascists come, they will be draped in the flag and carrying crosses.