My questions about Libby

[winston61]

Why would Libby do this? This is a guy who by any measure is no fool. A top lawyer, described as a shark. Yet it seems he was happy to lie down for Cheney and Bush and Rove. Was he played for a chump? How do you fool a smart guy like Scooter? Would he have done it just for money? Usually guys like Libby are not Kool Aid drinkers. They are fixers; go to guys, the ones who know where the bodies are. Was he Cheney’s un-questioning attack dog? Did he think that Fitzgerald was going to blink? If the conviction stands, it is not a great leap to predict that Bush will pardon him in ’09. Still the questions linger. Why bend over for guys that would not piss on him if he were on fire?

[wake.up.america]

1. Dinero

[Dhalgren]

2. I think that he did it because he not only knows where the bodies are

buried, he knows who put the bodies there. It is the carrot and the stick writ large. If he plays ball with the Family, he will be a multimillionaire when he gets out of jail, he will be taken care of in a huge, huge way. If he goes against the Family, he will be dead, his family will be dead; Al Capone with a baseball bat is nothing compared to the Bush Crime Family with a grudge against you. Once these Hun-rejects own your soul, there is nothing you won't do...

[emulatorloo]

3. Originally, I think Libby thought Ashcroft would white wash the whole thing

and he thought he could say "Reporters told me" and either Ashcroft would never follow up or the reporters wouldn't testify.

Sadly for him, Ashcroft had to recuse himself and Fitz was brought in.

[whistle]

4. Libby is a PNAC neo-conservative true believer who knows that he

...plays ball with the fascist power elite or else he is a dead man. He may still end up dead, but he thinks his wife and family will be protected. In other words he is a chump who somehow believes that the Bush mafia family will take care of him. They won't!

[Fresh_Start]

5. I'm wondering

whether its something like mob psychology or us/them psychology (don't know the name but its what enables the thin blue line (police brutality) thinking....

[PhilipShore]

6. Corporate lawyers are de facto above the law

Why would Libby do this? This is a guy who by any measure is no fool. A top lawyer, described as a shark. Yet it seems he was happy to lie down for Cheney and Bush and Rove..

I am not a lawyer; but I am assuming Libby was a corporate lawyer; they generally are not worried about the rule of law, or rules of attorney conduct; they only fear two things the judge, and getting their legal fee.

I assuming he is a stereotypical "Enron" type lawyer -- that would lie and distort the truth -- because generally no one ever holds top corporate lawyers, or top corporate law firms accountable.

[spindrifter]

7. Don't forget some of the

characteristics of the anti-social personality disordered individual:

sense of entitlement
narcissism.

They all have those to some degree--makes them believe they are invulnerable.