Posted by
Gamecock on Saturday, March 17, 2007 6:25:37 AM
Today’s verdicts finding Scooter Libby guilty of perjury is a travesty of justice as was the whole prosecution. Libby was the Chief of Staff for Vice-President Dick Cheney before he was indicted for perjury.
(Originally posted at Redstate.com and Promoted from diaries by Mark I. and Jeff Emanuel to front page)
From the decision to appoint a special prosecutor due solely to press demands on behalf of a CIA employee who long ago was “outed” by her Husband and D.C. cocktail parties through Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s decision to set up Libby for today’s events after he learned that Libby was not guilty of outing a CIA agent and that the State Department’s Richard Armitage was the person that outed Joe Clinton-Kerry lackey Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame. Wilson had named his wife in Who’s Who, but other than that and the cocktail parties, she was in deep cover. Right. She was also more than five years removed from security work that implicates the law protecting identities of agents.
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One also has to question the competence of Libby’s attorneys and the adequacy of the Judge’s instructions.
Regrettfully, statements by jurors concerning a “fall guy” call into question either the control the judge had over the jury, their compliance with instructions to avoid publicity and/or the decision not to sequester the jury in the first place.
In any event, should Libby lose his appeals, he should be sentenced the same as the last convicted perjurer, Bill Clinton.
Libby should pay a fine, lose his law license if he has one, and be President of the United States until the next president is inaugurated.
(Originally posted at The HinzSight Report and cross-posted at Race 4 2008. Links below)
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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