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Thread #103137 Message #2099011
Posted By: Azizi
10-Jul-07 - 03:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: Olbermann to Bush/Cheney
Subject: RE: BS: Olbermann to Bush/Cheney
In case anyone is interested, here's article about Bush's commutation of Libby.
Progressive Daily Beacon Opinion Piece; July 10th, 2007 | Day 191 | Week 28
Commuting Scooter: Laws Don't Apply to the Privileged Class A. Alexander, July 3rd, 2007
Scooter Libby received his 'get out of jail free card' from Mister Bush. On the same day another disgraced Neoconservative, Paul Wolfowitz, who had used his position at World Bank to enrich his girlfriend, found a new job at the Republican-Corporate think tank, The American Enterprise Institute. Indeed, it was a great day for Neoconservative criminals.
Conservative and Republican apologists continued to peddle the old lie that no laws had ever been broken and therefore; as Mister Bush claimed in his commutation statement, Libby's sentence was too harsh. No laws were broken, they claim, but a jury found Mister Scooter guilty of something like four felony counts.
Now, of course, the Republicans, when they say no laws were broken, are referring to the crime Libby tried to cover up - the crime the administration committed when they treasonously leaked the identity of an undercover CIA agent. Republicans continue to repeat the lie that Valerie Plame, the intelligence agent at the heart of Libby's criminal activity, wasn't undercover and therefore; Cheney and Libby leaking her identity to the press wasn't a crime.