Brown blasts Bush over Libby
Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Lorain in northern Ohio, took a shot at President Bush last night after the president announced he would commute I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's sentence.
Libby is a former White House aide who was convicted of lying in the CIA leak case surrounding the release of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.
"Independence day came early for Scooter Libby," Brown said. "I am disappointed in the President's decision to commute Scooter Libby's sentence. Scooter Libby was convicted of lying on a national security matter, prosecuted by a Republican prosecutor, sentenced by a Republican judge, and clearly the president doesn't want to be held accountable or hold his people accountable."
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Post a Comment*The president just single handedly destroyed our court system by condoning lying under oath - the very backbone of our judicial system.
I guess he had to eliminate a branch of government to make room for Cheney's newly disclosed and exclusive branch.
How many times do you hacks need to be told? She was not an operative, no cover was blown, there was no leak.
The fishwrap helping perpetuate the Liberal agenda once again.
Tired of the lies?
Tired of the politics?
Tired of the lack of agenda?
Vote Republician
"The president just single handedly destroyed our court system by condoning lying under oath - the very backbone of our judicial system."
Funny, almost the same utterence of James Traficante back in '99
Sorry I forgot....it was only sex
How many time's can you lie and say she was not an operative, not under cover etc. when the CIA has explcitly definitively said otherwise? Maybe if you say it enough times it becomes true?
George Bush's father said whoever did this committed treason; he was right, but sadly it may have been his own son.
In fact she was a covert CIA operative, as evidenced by the CIA's own statement to Patrick Fitzgrald.
Setting aside the status of Valerie Plame, they also blew the cover of the Brewster Jennings Company as a CIA front and in turn the cover of everyone ever assoicated with it. We may never know how much damage that did.
Treason is right
I guess it would have made Sherrod happier if Bush had pardoned some terorists or pardoned some major donors to his Presidential library, which is what his buddy Bill Clinton did, instead of merely commuting the sentence of a nonviolent offender.
At the request of our Great President,Mr.Libby may now reveal the true identity of our bold typist.
Is JT blogging from the bighouse?
How about our local tanning salon enthusiast, John Boehner? Does anyone else here find it perplexing that he's adamantly against amnesty for illegal immigration, yet firmly in favor of amnesty for illegal obstruction of justice?
House Republican Leader John Boehner called the Bush's decision "the right one" because it "ensures that the interests of justice and fairness are both served."
Ah, the ol' double standard. The Republicans wouldn't be themselves without it.
E. Lawrence Barcella hit the nail on the head:
"Nothing turns a conservative into a liberal faster than a conviction. It's amazing how quickly they actually start thinking about people's civil liberties."
this memo proves plame recommended her husband, yet the mainstream media and the liberal left have no regard for fact and accuracy anymore.
http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/files/valeries_memo.pdf
man, democrats these days are PATHETIC!
Fitzgerald is not a republican. he is an independent
"Fitzgerald is careful to be apolitical in his targets and his public life alike. He registered to vote as an Independent in New York, only to discover, when he began receiving fundraising calls, that Independent was a political party. He re-registered with no affiliation, as he did later in Chicago."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A55560-2005Feb1?language=printer
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How many times do you hacks need to be told? She was not an operative, no cover was blown, there was no leak.
I guess you regard Rush to be the authority on that, over George Tenet. Only Republicants believe their own lies - and they're down to a few dead-enders.
So according to some of the posters to this blog it's ok to lie under oath as long as what you lie about was not in fact a criminal offense. Of course at the time you lie someone is investigating a SUSPECTED crime, but that's ok. Huh?
Bush knowingly cut Libby a deal. This commutation and eventual pardon is/are given to buy Libby's silence, no more and no less. George W. Bush's adminstration is two parts Nixon and three parts Carter - the Bush Administration is the most corrupt and most incompetent in American History.
Guys, I just need to get this out somewhere. I watched the Montgomery 4th of July parade today, and it shocked me how angry other people watching the parade got angry with the Repugnicants.
Raussen got booed, Clancy got booed, I thought Schmidt was going to need a police escort.
Meanwhile, David Pepper was treated like a rock star. Perhaps even more importantly, the Democratic candidates at the back of the parade (as the Repugnicant organizers of the parade made sure of) also got great receptions. I think Gregg Cohen, Pat Stern, and Connie Pillich will easily trample their repugnicant opponents in the fall.
(Pat should maybe not have copied Jean Schmidt's logo, but that's just me.)
Good God, this is freaking Montgomery, the Repugnicant/right-wing capital of Hamilton County. I remember all those Bush bumper stickers, but now it seems like the voters have woken up to the complete disaster the Repugnicants turned our country and our state into.
It made me proud to be an American, for the first time since 1999.
Tired of the lies?
Tired of the politics?
Tired of the lack of agenda?
Vote Republician
and you will get very very tired.
i do take exception to the lack of an agenda. the shrubs agenda is very clear. rape, loot, and pillage and take as much as you can before you get thrown out
Politics as usual. It is too bad our elected officials can't quit snipping at each other and get down to some serious work.
To the Bush-defenders... be sure to read today's editorial in the notoriously right-wing Washington Times:
Perjury is a serious crime. This newspaper argued on behalf of its seriousness in the 1990s, during the Clinton perjury controversy, and today is no different. We'd have hoped that more conservatives would agree. The integrity of the judicial process depends on fact-finding and truth-telling. A jury found Libby guilty of not only perjury but also obstruction justice and lying to a grand jury. It handed down a very supportable verdict. This is true regardless of the trumped-up investigation and political witch hunt. It is true regardless of the unjustifiably harsh sentence.
Had Mr. Bush reduced Libby's sentence to 15 months, we might have been able to support the decision. Alas, he did not.
Sherrod Brown has given us his opinion. Now let us hear from Senator Voinovich, US Representative Steve Chabot and US Representative Jean Schmidt.
Should we read anything into the fact that the three elected officials who have not offered an opinion are Republican? At every possible opportunity and venue, the voters should ask them to go on the record. (and video-tape the response).
I second anonymous 2:53am. I'm dying to hear what Steve Chabot has to say about this. He didn't have any reluctance to go on record about perjury, obstruction of justice and the rule of law when he was an impeachment manager. Back then, he had plenty to say.
From the February 1999 closing statement by House impeachment manager Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Cincinnati, before the U.S. Senate:
"The question before you now is: how will this chapter end? Will the final chapter say that the United States Senate turned its back on perjury and obstruction of justice by the President of the United States? Or will it say that the Senate took a principled stand and told the world that no person, not even the president, stands above the law? That all Americans — no matter how rich, how powerful, or how well-connected - are held accountable for their actions?
"As the father of two children, and a former teacher at an inner-city school in Cincinnati, I believe it is very important that we teach our children that honesty, integrity, and the rule of law do matter."
I'd like to add that it makes me sick to see Americans here defending perjury by a government official. When our government asks its citizens to make the ultimate sacrifice as 3,590 have at this writing, it is our responsibility to demand truth and accountability from the government. To accept anything less or to make cheap, ends justifies the means rationalizations dishonors them.
I'm sure Sherrod Brown condemned Bill Clinton for his pardons of Marc Rich and Mel Reynolds, as well as his own lying under oath. Otherwise Sherrod would be a big hypocrite.
This episode confirms that George W. Bush's Administration is two parts Nixon and three parts Carter - the Bush Administration is the most corrupt and the most incompetent in American History. George W. Bush, like so very many Republicans, is a physical and moral coward of the lowest order. I look forward to the many expose'/scandal books to come from this Worst Adminstration in American History.
The who;e time I saw Pepper walking in the Montgomery parade, he was checking the shine on his shoes. Nice try Her Goebbles
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