Libby Commutation Sparks More Lies From Joe Wilson
Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at 02:46PM The mutation of Joe Wilson has begun. Not only does he sound like a hippie, he looks like one, too. In interviews on CNN with John Roberts and Anderson Cooper discussing the Scooter Libby commutation by President Bush, Joe Wilson continues to perpetuate the “Bush Lied” lie, not blinking an eye, still looking as if he believe what he’s saying. Unfortunately I have no time for commentary, but Joe Wilson’s asinine comments and pathological train of thought will have to suffice. He did admit in the interview with John Roberts of CNN that the Justice Department knew of Armitage being the Valerie Plame outer before the special prosecutor was even named…. Can anyone say political witch hunt?
Here is President Bush’s Grant of Executive Clemency
GRANT OF EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAWashington D.C.
July 2, 2007
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A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS Lewis Libby was convicted in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in the case United States v. Libby, Crim. No. 05-394 (RBW), for which a sentence of 30 months’ imprisonment, 2 years’ supervised release, a fine of $250,000, and a special assessment of $400 was imposed on June 22, 2007;NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, pursuant to my powers under Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, do hereby commute the prison terms imposed by the sentence upon the said Lewis Libby to expire immediately, leaving intact and in effect the two-year term of supervised release, with all its conditions, and all other components of the sentence.
IN WITNESS THEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this second day of July, in the year of our Lord two thousand and seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-first.
GEORGE W. BUSH
Well done, Mr. President. You’ve almost redeemed yourself for the ILLEGAL immigration reform blunder.
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Where is the civil slander suit against the "professorial" looking Joe? This guys is too much.
You're surprised this practiced *ss doesn't bat an eye while lying through his teeth? He's a pro. It's pathetically funny
It's pathetic. All of this, the commutation, the debate over a full pardon, the case against Libby, the Plamegate baloney, all of that vanishes -- would never have happened -- if Patrick Fitzgerald had done his job and prosecuted the leaker, Richard Armitage.
And yet, it's Libby who will lose his law license over this. Somebody explain to me how any single Democrat can utter the words "justice" about this case without their heads imploding under the weight of their own hypocrisy.
This was a CIA sting from day one, but it would have gone nowhere without Patrick Fitzgerald. If there is justice in this country, he'll be brought up on ethics charges himself and disbarred.
This is where we are on the 4th of July: A shadow government run by the media and the intelligence apparatus of this country is trying to usurp America's sovereignty, and in their naked rush to hand power to the Democrats they are willing to sacrifice every single American to Al Qaeda.
Remember that this Independence Day. Remember that sites like this exist to get you the REAL news of the day, the TRUTH that you need in order to survive.
I hope the Wilson's go to small claims court with all of this. They can dish it out there... but they will have to face the heat and truth that will come out too.
Happy 4th everyone...
AubreyJ.........
According to Mr Wilson, The National Security of this country has been hurt... Sorry, but I don't see that. For all the reasons. What did hurt the National Security of this Country was the NYT and Bill Keller.
Sour grapes from the pool side investigator.
Article II of the Constitution gives the president broad and unreviewable power to grant "Reprieves and Pardons" for all offenses against the United States. The Supreme Court has ruled that the pardon power is granted "[t]o the [president] . . ., and it is granted without limit" (United States v. Klein). Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes declared that "[a] pardon . . . is . . . the determination of the ultimate authority that the public welfare will be better served by [the pardon] . . ." (Biddle v. Perovich). A president may conclude a pardon or commutation is warranted for several reasons: the desire to restore full citizenship rights, including voting, to people who have served their sentences and lived within the law since; a belief that a sentence was excessive or unjust; personal circumstances that warrant compassion; or other unique circumstances.
>>>“The spy allegedly outed by a White House leaker is an attractive blond with Bond-girl looks who ran overseas operations and recruited agents for the CIA, sources told the Daily News.
Two former senior intelligence officials confirmed that Valerie Plame, 40, is an operations officer in the spy agency's directorate of operations - the clandestine service.
Plame "ran intelligence operations overseas," said Vincent Cannistraro, former CIA counterterrorism operations chief.
Her specialty in the agency's nonproliferation center was biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and "recruiting agents, sending them to areas where they could access information about proliferation matters, weapons of mass destruction," Cannistraro said.
The Justice Department has launched a criminal probe into whether a White House staffer leaked Plame's name to columnist Robert Novak in violation of federal law.
Plame is the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who has charged that his wife's cover was blown in retaliation for his comments contradicting the Bush administration's claim that deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had tried to buy nuclear weapons material in Africa.
Cannistraro called Plame's outing a "dirty trick."
"Her assets may be at risk," he said. "I think that's what justified the probe."<<<
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/100503D.shtml
Can I ask you right wingers a question?
If we’re in an alleged “War on Terror”, why on GOD’S GREEN EARTH would you believe that destroying an undercover operation to prevent WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION from getting into the hands of ROGUE NATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST is a “GOOD THING?”
Are you people Republicans first, or Americans?
--Cobra
Thank you for the excellent post! Have a great Fourth of July!
I agree with Mr. Wilson, the national security of America has been hurt by this whole affair. It has shown the world that America will employ, at the most crucial decision-points, political party hacks, lifetime bureaucrats, celebrity-seeking sycophants, and personality disordered elitists, who haven't a shred of competence, veracity, or honor, to represent America's vital interests, such as, was or was not Iraq seeking yellow-cake uranium, when America was headed toward this war. Joseph Wilson, Valerie Plame, the media involved, and the witch-hunters seeking a Cheney/Rove frog-march from this, have revealed the soft-underbelly of America. America's government has descended to resembling a pack of hyenas fighting over a carcass, with no concern for what is happening beyond their petty and vain need to have the power, be worshipped as celebrities, and get the money. Wilson-Plame show America's "A" Team for Intelligence and State Department to be more like Chevy Chase and Dan Akryod in "Spies Like Us", or the "Get Smart" spy comedy from tv's 1960's, but without the "no blood, no foul" ending the other comedies bring us, the America who suffers the consequences of such episodes.
Amy, I'm with you on the, "--almost redeemed on ILLEGAL immigration--", thing. Meanwhile, another lib, algore3, is on the road, hopped up on drugs, and it hardly makes a blop on the MSM screen. The story will disappear faster than a triple cheeseburger on the buffet table at the "wrap party" for "Sicko"!
The ONLY shock in the story about a drunken driving arrest, that also involved drugs and a rich liberal politician or relative of, was that it WAS NOT about a Kennedy!
I'm also sorry to see that the "snake" is still posting here and continuing to make an "asp" of himself.
The Bush lied lie that Amy refers to, was in fact the truth,
Amy also said in reference to the Immigration bill……….
'A country that does not uphold its own rule of law does not uphold its people'
I agree with her on that, but how do we excuse her asinine hypocrisy on the Libby issue?
The Australian Government has finally come clean and admitted this war is about oil.
After years of blindly following the liar of all liars John Howard accepted the truth bi the bullet and could no longer support the lame duck liberation front.
What I now want to know is what dirt has Libby got on this administration? What information does he hold over them that is worth the trouble he has caused?.
It must have been enough to buy his freedom and in months to come Libby will tighten the screws even harder and get a full pardon and the liar for liars will practice law once more.
Did President Bush lie to all of us when he said "Scooter" would serve probation for his felony convictions?
Simon, please, do tell how "Bush Lied".
In case you're not in the loop about what that actually means, here's the synopsis:
-Joe Wilson,who lied about who sent him on his quest to Niger, claimed that the Plame ‘outing’ was retaliation, in part, for In his op-ed in the New York Times on July 6, 2003 called ‘What I Didn’t Find in Africa’, which began:
On January 28, 2003, President George W. Bush delivered a State of the Union speech just 2 months before US troops entered Iraq. In his speech, the President made this statement:
By October of that same year, those 16 words of the State of the Union address came back to haunt the President when it appeared the intelligence supporting the attempted procurement by Saddam of uranium from Niger was false. Political opponents accused the President of taking the country to war under false pretenses. Hence, "Bush Lied" rhetoric became the standard line of Democrats throughout America and anti-war activists throughout the world.
Since the war in Iraq began in March 2003, US troops have confiscated 3,000 hours of audiotapes of Saddam Hussein chairing his Revolutionary Command Council before the war and 48,000 boxes of records documenting his regime's military activities. In fact, those documents are housed here at Fort Leavenworth. In February of 2006, the first audio tapes were translation to English and examined after at the February meeting by the International Intelligence Summit. Some of the findings from Saddam's recordings include:
-Saddam stated Iraq will allow UNSCOM to confirm their erroneous pre-war assessments
-Saddam was confident that Iraq would "overcome" the inspection program
-Saddam pointed out a major advantage – keeping the precursors for chemical weapons separated until needed and they can be explained away as having civilian use.
The media began to report that:
In other words, the newly translated Iraqi documents from Saddam Hussein regime show that PRESIDENT BUSH WAS FACTUALLY ACCURATE WHEN HE TOLD THE NATION IN HIS 2003 STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS THAT IRAQ HAD RECENTLY SOUGHT URANIUM FROM AFRICA.
Meanwhile, Joe Wilson (who lied about who sent him to Niger and why) lied about what he supposedly didn't find in Niger. The July 2004 Senate Intelligence Committee Report said:
In other words, Wilson admitted he “misspoke” about his original assertion (which he is perpetuating to this day), and he admitted to it. He also admitted that contrary to his accusation that VP Dick Cheney sent him to Niger, it was actually his wife Valerie Plame who did so.
Wilson also knows the administration had NOTHING to do with outing his wife. He admitted in the interview I posted above that RICHARD ARMITAGE leaked the name inadvertantly... and said he didn't know why ARMITAGE hadn't been prosecuted but Libby had instead. I'll tell you why: it's a political witch hunt of the worst kind.
Thanks Amy for the oppotunity, I've been aware of the facts for quite a while, however your assesment is not exactly believable
You still try to hide behind the specious claim that Joe Wilson "lied". Although obviously Joe did not lie and pointless though it is, let's follow that reasoning to its logical conclusion.
Let's use the same rules the Bush Administration follow. Here are the facts.
Bush's lies have resulted in the deaths of 3700 American soldiers and the scrambled brains and mutilated bodies of countless surviving veterans. Joe Wilson has not put anyone at risk.
He tried to prevent the pointless death of Americans and the loss of American prestige in the world.
Bush lost the very point of the exercise, which was to invent a belivable threat and maintain control over oil .
Nevertheless that’s just my opinion, but if you really read the Senate intelligence committee report (bear in mind its bias) and even though it was designed to try to portray Joe in the worst possible murky light, a kind of clarity emerges on page 52 of the report:
“According to the US Ambassador to Niger (who was commenting on Joe's visit in February 2002), "Ambassador Wilson reached the same conclusion that the Embassy has reached that it was highly unlikely that anything between Iraq and Niger was going on." Joe's findings were consistent with those of the Deputy Commander of the European Command, Major General Fulford.”
The other lie, Amy, is your unbelievable claim that Joe was sent to Africa by his wife. How asinine is that?
Does this type of thing go on in your house?
Does Johnny say, Honey, pop over to Iraq and kill the bad guys will you? I’ll take care off the kids and pick me up something nice on your way back.
The Republicans insist on the lie that Val got her husband the job. She did not. She was not a division director. She just recommended her husband to do the job that needed to be done but the decision to send Joe Wilson on this mission was made by her bosses, and as we know who her boses were, we also know who sent him
Joe, after years in Africa had the contacts and was already cleared to handle a sensitive assignment of this nature. He dealt with a friendly government that had few trade commitments with Iraq. Therefore Wilson was qualified and the best person for the task.
an expert in WMD or yellow cake was not required to ask questions in Africa about Iraqi trade.
After all a failed career as a businessman did not prevent George from becoming President of the United States Did it?
so why should Wilson have been a WMD expert to be sent to Africa to investigate trade?
At the end of the day, Joe Wilson was right. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and no evidence to indicate that Saddam had the technology or ingredients to build nuclear weapons.
Years later, after we have all been educated in WMD technology and now know how much goes into having a nuclear capability; the claims made by Bush were not just false, the claims were stupid and reflected the ignorance of those who still support the line.
After all is said, WMD claims made in 2003 were simply empty of fact and evidence while we were being told by the bush admin there was proof positive.
Bush Lied.
Iran has always had access to its own Uranium and has built reactors but are still working on building a deterrent against US aggression in the region, while Iraq was no where near as advanced has paid the penalty.
We all know now that uranium is not the only thing needed to make bombs. We also know now that our own depleted Uranium weapons will continue to cause death not just to Iraqis and Serbians but to our own troops as well, that’s our WMD that now kills our own people, at a rate of 250 000 since the Iraq conflict began in 1991.
Thats our own WMD, Amy, that our government claims was not harmful and you seem to believe them.
through all of the build up to war Bush never disputed the British claim that Iraq could bomb Europe in 45 minutes, a claim he knew to be untrue but a claim that was useful.In fact Bush aided and assisted in everyway so that justifycation for war could be found.
He failed to get That justifycation, Amy, but went to war without it, and thats a war crime.
A fully equipped reactor large enough to process and enrich sufficient quantities of yellow cake will provide enough to build a bomb but Saddam did not have that capability or the supply. After years of sanctions his air force suffered the same shortages as the nations hospitals and civilian services. Saddam’s resources were limited and his nation had become effectively defenseless.
Bush knew all that but continued to lie.
Even if he had built a bomb Saddam would still need a delivery system, which must be capable of carrying Georges imaginary bomb that never had a target, which never threatened anyone.
Bush lied
It was the Bush Administration that pushed that lie world wide in its vain attempt to gain support for the invasion. Because of the lies Americans are still dying along side innocent Iraqis and insurgents who have been forced to defend Arab land.
Shame on those who continue to slander Joe Wilson while giving Bush and his pack of liars a pass. That's an outrage.
Joe Wilson did not break the law, he did not end up in court,he was not convicted and was not protected, like I asked before "what Dirt does libby have on Bush?.
Simon,
Don't you get it yet! You have to have a yankee or Israeli flag around your butt, before you can produce nuclear weapons. Iranians like most other nations in that region are just third class residents of planet earth. They should roll over and play tickle-me-doggy, when the US and its allies hoover around their waters with cruise missiles and aircraft carriers. fun stuff.