Letters to the Editor
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Go ahead.
Please, go ahead and appeal. Let's keep twisting this knife in the Bush administration's wound. And while we're at it, let's see what else we can learn about Valerie Plame and Dick Cheney.
Death by a thousand cuts.
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the plan all along
I'm sure the plan all along has been to delay the final disposition of the Libby matter until the very end of Bush's presidency, then Bush will pardon him. It's inevitable. Libby knows way too much, and no-one in the White House can afford it if he talks. And I'm sure that's the deal. He doesn't say boo, and in return the GOP, through proxies, funds his defense, and he gets a pardon if all else fails.
It'd sure be interesting to know where the money's coming from for his defense, now wouldn't it? The cost of his lawyers will be in the several millions of dollars before it's all over.
Libby is an insignificant loose-end, easily tied up.
Some years ago, I talked with someone who was close to the White House, and this guy, in the most matter-of-fact way you can imagine, said that The White House under Bush and Cheney, and the GOP congress, was hopelessly corrupt from top-to-bottom, with endless obvious conflicts-of-interest, payoffs, cover-ups, you name it. The GOP has basically been looting America relentlessly for the last six years. For every idiot like Duke Cunningham who gets caught because he's too stupid to be walking around free, there are hundreds who do the job right, and walk away in very good shape indeed.
This fellow I spoke with said it was the same in Bush Sr.'s day too. Not quite so bad in the Clinton years, apparently.
The GOP is likely irredeemably corrupt, and will remain so, as long as it's in the hands of shills for evangelical christians, the defense, oil, and pharmaceutical industries, and rambo neocons. America deserves what it gets, and what it's gotten in the last six years is one, long, thorough screwing.
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To be expected...
I figured that if there was a guilty verdict, there would instantly be an appeal.
But where are those Republicans who for years have been saying that we have to do something to stop the endless appeals in criminal convictions? Maybe they're all over at the yacht club today.
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An Appeal Is Not A "Get Out Of Jail Free" Card
Just because there may be an appeal, that does not mean that Libby stays out of jail pending the appeal. Staying out of jail pending appeal is unusual--the exception rather than the rule.
Watch for the defense to pull every other delaying tactic out of the bag until he is marched off to the pen--then a pardon will be granted by Dubya on Christmas Eve when nobody is paying attention--just like Daddy did with Cap Weinberger.
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Good reading on Salon
Proof that at Salon, and maybe with the jury, Libby's guilt or innocence of the charges in the indictment was entirely incidental. The real "crime" that everyone wanted charged was "the War." Or "Cheney."
This was a travesty from the start.
I do hope that no pardon is ever neccessary, but if it is, I hope the President grants it. Then everybody at Salon can feel as I do now.
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And how do you feel now, Elephantman?
Manipulated? Lied to? Like the system of justice and American values you put so much faith into has failed you?
Yes, I wonder what that must feel like.
Because right now I feel fucking great.
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Elephantman
Entirely incidental? One again, you make a statement without any proof. Just because you say it was entirely incidental, doesn't make it so. Everything I've read about the jury indicates that they took their job seriously, deliberated for 10 days, and returned a verdict they decided was just. If you can find anything to the contrary, please cite it. I doubt you will, though, because facts and evidence are not relevant to your opinions.
By the way, you still have not identified your employer...
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Retrial?
So, other than not liking the verdict, what is the basis for asking for a retrial?
The defense agreed to go with 11 jurors over the prosecutions objections so that can't be it.
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Libby Pardon
Don't worry about Mr. Libby, he had a pardon in the bank well before the trial began. Bush may have to wait a few months until the case is off the radar screen, but it will happen.