Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Destroyed interrogation tapes!
No charges will be filed!!! (MSNBC article)
Bush is a liar!!!!!
I distinctly remember Bush saying on national television that he was supporting the sentencing of Libby, then he later commutes it. Another incident in which Bush and his administration acted above the law!! Bush also abused his power by forcing the investigation to stop, denying Plame an opportunity at a civil suit, again another abuse of power. This is called dictatorship people!!!
Joe Wilson reacts to Bush memoirs
Former U.S. Ambassador Joe Wilson blasted recent comments President George W. Bush made to NBC's Matt Lauer regarding the CIA leak case.
"The President, by the way, is wrong in saying he let the jury's verdict stand. He did not," the husband of outed agent Valerie Plame told The Last Word.
Bush re-hashed the past in his new book, Decision Points. Bush admitted his decision not to pardon former Cheney aide Scooter Libby caused some friction between the two towards the end of his term.
I chose to commute his sentence. I felt he had paid enough of a penalty," said Bush
Wilson still begs to differ. "Scooter Libby did not serve a day in jail. And by commuting his sentence, he removed from Scott Fitzgerald any remaining pressure that Fitzgerald had on Libby." Wilson continued, "The obstruction of justice prevented Pat Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor, from finding out the underlying truth in the betrayal of Valerie's identity."
Libby was convicted of lying to federal agents investigating the public outing of CIA operative Plame and the administration's vendetta against Wilson, an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq.
Monday, November 8, 2010
Sleeping with the enemy!!
US may reconsider Sudan's terror list status
This is exactly what we did with Iraq during Iraq's invasion of Iran in the 80's so we could support them militarily. Look out people we're headed out to sleep with the devil again.By LOU KESTEN • The Associated Press • November 7, 2010
WASHINGTON — The United States may remove Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism as early as next July, U.S. officials said Sunday, provided the government in Khartoum meets an assortment of benchmarks.
Of primary concern is a Jan. 9 referendum in which southern Sudan will vote on whether to secede from the northern part of the country. The south is widely expected to vote for independence.
The U.S. is insisting that the referendum proceed as planned, and that the northern-based government respect the results, before it will consider removing Sudan’s terrorist designation.
The referendum is part of the 2005 peace agreement that ended a 21-year civil war between Sudan’s mostly Muslim north and predominantly animist and Christian south that killed nearly 2 million people. The agreement also set up a unity government in Khartoum and an autonomous government in the south to rule until the southern referendum.
The two sides have been struggling over several issues, including borders, voting rights and control of oil-rich Abyei, which straddles the north-south border. Residents of Abyei are scheduled to hold a separate referendum on Jan. 9 to choose whether the region will join Sudan’s north or a possible new country in the south.
Salva Kiir, president of southern Sudan, has expressed concerns about a serious risk of violence during the referendum.
Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, met with Sudanese leaders over the weekend and presented the Obama administration’s proposal to remove Sudan from the terrorist list. It comes on top of a September offer of a range of incentives, including possible restoration of full diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Sudan.Bush, Cheney, Libby, & idiots!!
Oh gee, Bush did go above the law and commute Libby's sentence though. Libby should have been imprisoned just as the judge sentenced him.
What Bush, Libby & Rove did were incomprehensible & put Valerie Plame & Joe Wilsons lives in great danger, they both put their lives on the line for Bush.
Posted by Lucy Madison
In an interview that aired on NBC's "Today Show" Monday, Former President George W. Bush said his decision not to pardon former Vice Presidential aide Scooter Libby in 2008 did not sit well with former Vice President Dick Cheney.
"Scooter is a loyal American who worked for Vice President Cheney who got caught up in this Valerie Plame case and was indicted and convicted," Mr. Bush told NBC's Matt Lauer. Mr. Bush noted that while he chose to commute Libby's sentence, Cheney "wanted more." "He wanted me to pardon him," Mr. Bush said. "It was the last decision of the presidency, really. I chose to let the jury verdict stand after some serious deliberation, and the Vice President was angry." (Watch the clip at left.)In 2007, Libby was convicted in four felony charges related to the 2003 leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity, a leak thought to be a politically-motivated attack on her husband, Joseph Wilson. Wilson, a diplomat who had looked into alleged links between weapons components in Africa and Iraq, voiced his belief that the Bush administration "manipulate intelligence about Saddam Hussein's weapons programs to justify an invasion of Iraq." (The incident is dramatized in the new movie "Fair Game.")
Libby was sentenced to thirty months in prison. He ultimately avoided jail time thanks to Mr. Bush, who commuted his sentence to $250,000 in fines and two years of probation.
Mr. Bush, who was on the "Today Show" promoting his memoir "Decision Points," wrote in the book that he had considered dropping Cheney as his 2004 running mate in order to demonstrate that he was in charge. He suggested Cheney "had become a lightning rod for criticism from the media and the left" who "was seen as dark and heartless - the Darth Vader of the administration."
Mr. Bush said on "Today" that although he "was a little concerned at one time" about the status of his relationship with Cheney, the two are now on good terms. "I'm pleased to report...we are friends today," Bush said.
"It was a hard decision to make," he said of his handling of the Libby situation. "But that's what you do when you're President: You make hard decisions."
"Decision Points" hits stores on Tuesday.