Buzzflash: Why Bush Will Pardon Libby If He Has To

[demobabe]

Why Bush Will Pardon Libby If He Has To: Because Otherwise George and Dick Would Face Impeachment and Jail Time

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

BuzzFlash has had a personal interest in the Libby case, since we were the second online – and for that matter journalistic source of any sort – to report on the importance of the outing of Valerie Plame in the infamous Bob Novak column.

David Corn, of The Nation, was the first person to recognize the potential significance of the brief passage in Novak’s column. Corn wrote a commentary in The Nation that speculated that the two senior administration staffers who confirmed Plame’s covert role to Novak might have violated Federal law. Specifically, they might have broken a Congressional prohibition on outing covert CIA staff.

After Corn’s column broke (with the mainstream press still silent), we interviewed Corn and wrote a few editorials and alerts about the potential damage to our national security caused by a White House seeking vengeance.

Eventually, the CIA filed a formal request to the Justice Department to investigate whether the law had been broken, thus compromising the CIA’s efforts – in Valerie Plame’s case – to track (oh the tragic irony) the illicit sale and transfer of Weapons of Mass Destruction.

At that point, Bush said that he would fire anyone responsible for the leak, if such a leak took place. He never asked his staff about the leak, for obvious reasons. Because Bush and Cheney – as the Libby trial revealed – were aware of and involved in the leak planning, with Bush even declassifying national security information for Libby to use to try and smear Joe Wilson.

More here: http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorials/127

[opihimoimoi]

1. The Bully Bush and his so called ADVISORS are so full of ARROGANCE its pathetic...

They think they can get away with dirty shit ALL THE TIME..

Now that they got caught with their tongues in a vice....they wanna escape using a Pardon to shut up the Libby Mouth???

If they ever try that...the GOP will be DOOMED for the next 5768798 years....all them pubs who want to remain in power/office will see this is true...and they will work against any such pardon....so we hope....too many of them ARE DELUDED if we recall.

[demobabe]

2. The GOP seems to rely on the public having a 10 second attention span

That and the media bought and paid for! But I hope you're right on in all you're saying and they will be doomed.

[blm]

3. Took exactly 4 years for public to get 'over' the Nixon pardon. Now GOPs pretty much OWN

most of the media and can control what the public 'knows' more than ever before.

I don't put anything past them, especially with the boost they can get at any time from the go along, move past the scandal wing of the Democratic party that usually manage to snooker the rest of the Dems.

[demobabe]

4. This is exactly why we need to take back the media

Fairness doctrine to start... media ownership % after that...

[demobabe]

5. kick

:kick:

[B Calm]

6. But, wouldn't a pardon tell the American people

that even though Libby did leak Plame's CIA affiliation, obstruct justice, and lied repeatedly to investigators and the grand jury, that's okay because he was only trying to help the Bush Crime Family politically?

[demobabe]

7. It might, but...

...since when has Bush & Co. cared about what the American people think? If they had, we'd never have gone to war in Iraq to begin with...