Tag: libby
|
March 06, 2007 07:53 PM EST --
Dear President Bush:
I urge you to pardon Lewis Libby, who was following illegitimate orders from your Vice President to strike out at a critic of the folly and mendacity of your invasion of Iraq, . . . more
|
|
July 05, 2007 11:48 AM EDT --
Former President Bill Clinton certainly knows what it's like to be in the middle of a commutation controversy. When he left office in 2001, he pardoned several controversial figures including . . . more
|
|
April 06, 2006 05:12 PM EDT --
Not the Plame leak, mind you, but rather selected bits of intelligence he felt would help win support for his policies with the public.
Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff has testified . . . more
|
|
March 06, 2007 03:23 PM EST --
Defense attorneys for Libby led by Theodore Wells rested their case on Wednesday, February 14 arguing that Libby was "too preoccupied with national security interests" to remember conversations . . . more
|
|
January 29, 2007 10:07 PM EST --
Ari Speaks; Scooter Scrambles
Ari Fleischer, former White House Press Secretary to George W. Bush, testified in court today that I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby told him that former Ambassador . . . more
|
|
July 03, 2007 08:45 AM EDT --
No Jail Time for Libby? It's Impeachment Time for Cheney and Bush!
There's only one reason why Bush kept Libby out of jail: to keep him from ratting on Cheney and Bush about their direct involvement . . . more
|
|
July 09, 2007 06:20 AM EDT --
It's a real cliche, but I think I have deja vu all over again. This congress, after six long years of Democratic subordination, can't seem to act, at least not in any effective way. . . . more
|
|
July 14, 2007 08:45 PM EDT --
Humor, progressive, see link to article, place tongue firmly in cheek, click on link
Link to Article
more
|
|
March 26, 2007 05:31 PM EDT --
Leave it to the New York Times to pronounce something “corrupt” and then wholeheartedly embrace it as “crucial.”
This week’s Sunday magazine piece by Max Frankel is the most . . . more
|
|
November 01, 2006 05:21 PM EST --
Senator John Kerry responded to criticism this afternoon by apologizing for his statement on Monday misconstrued by Republicans and others as being snide about American soldiers serving in Iraq. . . . more
|
|
July 03, 2007 08:24 AM EDT --
So Scooter has been pardoned now. Oh, excuse me, had his sentence commuted. Hmmm..... The pardon won't come until Bush's last day in office, presumably. Either way, some are jubilant about . . . more
|
|
January 24, 2007 09:10 PM EST --
Please excuse me if my skepticism boils over every January, when political enemies briefly join in a sickening display of togetherness and the president delivers his so-called State-of-the-Union . . . more
|
|
January 27, 2007 04:21 AM EST --
Defense says Cheney's ex-aide was set up to protect Karl Rove
WASHINGTON - White House officials tried to sacrifice vice-presidential aide I. Lewis ``Scooter'' Libby to protect . . . more
|
|
March 07, 2007 11:08 AM EST --
A federal jury convicted Lewis "Scooter" Libby of obstruction, perjury, and lying to the FBI in the investigation into the leak of a CIA agent's identity.
The conviction of the former chief . . . more
|
|
March 08, 2007 12:45 AM EST --
In today's San Francisco Chronicle, its D. C. bureau chief Mark Sandalow provided an analysis of why the "Scooter" Libby trial was far more important in showing how the Bush administration . . . more
|
|
July 02, 2007 10:42 PM EDT --
From the Associated Press, via MyWay News:
President Bush spared former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby from a 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak case Monday, stepping into a . . . more
|
|
July 05, 2007 11:02 AM EDT --
In the words of president bush himself the sentence handed out to Libby was “just too harsh”.
For a country that mocks the verdict of OJ Simpson, . . . more
|
|
July 06, 2007 07:14 AM EDT --
Does law that applies to the herd out here, the unwashed masses, the teeming crowds, apply to the Neocon faithful? Apparently not, if they are to be the judges of it. What we seem to . . . more
|
|
July 06, 2007 03:07 PM EDT --
Back at the beginning of March (http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976926301) I wrote that whether "Scooter" Libby did jail time mattered less than what his trial revealed . . . more
|
|
June 05, 2007 05:32 PM EDT --
I needed a good laugh and that lieing, fink Lewis Libby provided it. At his slap on the wrist sentencing today he actually made this statement to the judge:
"It is respectfully my hope that . . . more
|
|
|
|