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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

More About the Libby Persecution

SHOOTING ELEPHANTS IN A BARREL
by Ann Coulter

Summing it up:

Lewis Libby has now been found guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice for lies that had absolutely no legal consequence.

It was not a crime to reveal Valerie Plame’s name because she was not a covert agent. If it had been a crime, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald could have wrapped up his investigation with an indictment of the State Department’s Richard Armitage on the first day of his investigation since it was Armitage who revealed her name and Fitzgerald knew it.

With no crime to investigate, Fitzgerald pursued a pointless investigation into nothing, getting a lot of White House officials to make statements under oath and hoping some of their recollections would end up conflicting with other witness recollections, so he could charge some Republican with “perjury” and enjoy the fawning media attention.

As a result, Libby is now a convicted felon for having a faulty memory of the person who first told him that Joe Wilson (news, bio, voting record) was a delusional boob who lied about his wife sending him to Niger.

This makes it official: It’s illegal to be Republican.

[...]

Criminal prosecution is a surrogate for political warfare, but in this war, Republicans are gutless appeasers.

Bush has got to pardon Libby.

Read the whole thing.

Ann sums it up pretty concisely.

Comments

This whole post is a bunch of shit.

Lewis Libby has now been found guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice for lies that had absolutely no legal consequence

yea. so? apparently its fine to lie? bullshit. GOP is the moral party. gimme a break.

since it was Armitage who revealed her name and Fitzgerald knew it.

it was, unfortunately also Libby who revealed it.

hoping some of their recollections would end up conflicting with other witness recollections

Coulter wishes. This thing was hot from the begining. Its not something you just forget about cause you’re busy. that was a lie. remember?

This makes it official: It’s illegal to be Republican.

Wow. That’s some airtight logic there. Yea.


rasberry

Sparkie Arbuckle on March 7, 2007 at 07:15 pm

it was, unfortunately also Libby who revealed it.

Once Armitage revealed it, what came afterward doesn’t matter.  I can’t believe you don’t know that!

Wow. That’s some airtight logic there. Yea.

As if you would know.


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robert108 on March 7, 2007 at 07:22 pm

This whole post is a bunch of shit.

Ann hits Sparkie right between the eyes.


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robert108 on March 7, 2007 at 07:23 pm

keep talking it up. it might become true. so r108, you advocate lying to the FBI… don’t think it should be a crime do you? obviously…


rasberry

Sparkie Arbuckle on March 7, 2007 at 07:45 pm
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you advocate lying to the FBI?

I do not recall

-Bill Clinton

I do not remember.

- Hillary Clinton

I was going to talk, but then they had me neutered.

-Boots


For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

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For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

Proof on March 7, 2007 at 07:57 pm

Once Armitage revealed it, what came afterward doesn’t matter.

Everyone who knowingly leaked the name of a classified agent has culpability.

WOOF on March 7, 2007 at 08:02 pm

no response from r108 eh? i’ll take that as a yes. clearly he advocates lying to the FBI. bizarre.


rasberry

Sparkie Arbuckle on March 7, 2007 at 08:35 pm

Only the first person to say it can be the “leaker”; after that, it’s just repetition of what has already been revealed.  Duh.


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robert108 on March 7, 2007 at 08:57 pm

so r108, you advocate lying to the FBI… don’t think it should be a crime do you? obviously…

You can make up anything you like, Sparkie; you mostly do that anyway.  Just don’t think it has anything to do with reality.


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robert108 on March 7, 2007 at 08:59 pm

Everyone who knowingly leaked the name of a classified agent has culpability.

WOOF,

In your mind perhaps… or in your dreams.  But that is not what the law says (50 USC §421), as demonstrated eloquently by the fact that no one, including Armitage, was indicted for “leaking” Plame’s identity or her CIA employment.  No One!

Besides, according to that very same Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, Valerie Plame was not a “covert” or “covered/undercover agent” whose identity was covered by the law.

Perhaps if you and Sparkie had actually read the pertinent statute you’d know what you’re talking about.


“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One on March 7, 2007 at 09:10 pm

Only the first person to say it can be the “leaker

A tells B C tells D E tells F

3 separate acts of leaking.
A,C and E acting in concert,
a conspiracy.

WOOF on March 7, 2007 at 09:11 pm

Woof: Nice fantasy, but that isn’t how it happened.


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robert108 on March 7, 2007 at 09:22 pm

Bat no indictment doesn’t mean
no crime.

Fitzgerald may not have been able to prove a criminal act under that statute.

Also possible that he avoided having the whole investigation squashed by
national security secrets statutes.

In the beginning he called Plame covert. In the indictment referred
to her as classified.

WOOF on March 7, 2007 at 09:27 pm

Bat no indictment doesn’t mean no crime. It doesn’t mean “crime” either.

Fitzgerald may not have been able to prove a criminal act under that statute. Most likely because there was no criminal act under the statute.


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robert108 on March 7, 2007 at 09:30 pm

WOOF,

First of all, the employment status of most persons working for CIA is classified, with the exception of certain low-level staff individuals, and senior level political appointees.  That does NOT, however mean that publication of the fact of their employment constitutes a violation of 50 USC § 421.

The rest of your comment is speculative nonsense… and you are certainly smart enough to know it.

Fitzgerald may not have been able to prove a criminal act under that statute.

With Armitage having “confessed” less than two weeks after Fitzgerald was appointed?  I’ve listened to better arguments by a 12 year old for not doing homework than this.


“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One on March 7, 2007 at 09:39 pm

Armitage “confessing” does not mitigate Libby’s perjury and obstruction.

WOOF on March 7, 2007 at 09:54 pm

Since there was no underlying crime, there was no “justice” to “obstruct”.


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robert108 on March 7, 2007 at 10:00 pm

Armitage “confessing” does not mitigate Libby’s perjury and obstruction.

WOOF,

In a legal sense, of course, you are correct.  But, again, there has been, and apparently will be, no indictment of anyone for “leaking” Plame’s name or CIA employment.  IIPA was never violated in this case.  And without any sort of evidence to the contrary, your “conspiracy” will have to remain the fantasy it always was… a wishful wisp.

As for your “no indictment doesn’t mean no crime” suggestion, perhaps you’d care to offer that same analysis to Congressman Jack Murtha?


“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One on March 7, 2007 at 10:03 pm

Yes, this is political warfare at the Left’s smelly worst.

HOW long was the jury in deliberations?  Sending back questions as to reasonable doubt?  It will be very instructive to see if there was any pressure on this jury, since Fitzgerald was noted to have pressured the Grand Jury (one of several) and furious at the ones who refused to hand down indictments.  Remember, it is said that Grand Juries will hand down an indictment for a ham sandwich, such is the one-sidedness of the exercise.  Fitzgerald may prove to be little more than Nifong with a Leftist armband.

No doubt the jury was confused as to what exactly Libby was being charged with.  Even Leno was confused.

Interesting, the high dudgeon the Left affects when beating the table and shouting treason! treason! when the Clinton administration has done far more damage than the Rosenbergs on their best, Leftist day, could have dreamed of doing, all with the transfer of America’s most closely guarded Neutron Warhead (W-88) and multi-stage booster technology to North Korea and Red China, and all.

Or more recently, the leaks and treason the Left is currently committing by outing Secret Prisons for Terrorists, which, I can only imagine to have been classified at the Top Secret level. 

Somebody leaked that and the press is stony silent as to how that has seriously damaged the ability of the US and her allies to obtain vital intelligence as to planned terrorist operations and stopping them.  Strange, the complete Leftist disinterest in who outed that program.

Treason indeed.

Oddly enough, at bottom, what were the lies all supposed to be about? That Bush Lied and Soldiers Died?

While I dislike Bush for other reasons, I think he has largely been correct on The War Against Terror (T.W.A.T. is it?) and it has been the Left that continues to LIE and LIE BIG.
Again, WMDs recovered from Post-invasion Iraq.

Leftists—hypocrites, false accusers, traitors.


...for great justice

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Move_Zig on March 7, 2007 at 10:59 pm
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