Comments on: Juror: Libby Was "The Fall Guy"

Jurors Say They Sympathized With Former White House Aide But Simply Didn't Believe His Story

[abbe7]

"In fact, it was never proven she was covert".

Again and again the same BS. So why did the CIA ask for an investigation ? It's not because the damage is classified that it doesn't exist. And, btw, it's not just about Plame, but about Brewster-Jennings ... also not covert ????

We got large pieces of Libby's GJ testimony. What about the other ones, now that the trial is over ???

[huskerarmy]

"In fact, it was never proven she was covert."
Reflections, The CIA says she was covert and rquested an investigation. You would have them prove their innocence in all of this too? Was Brewster Jennings a fabrication? How willing are you to twist the facts?

[huskerarmy]

"it sounds like they ALL had "predetermined" opinions regarding this case"
No preceptions, statements made after a trial are by definition post mortem and do not evidence anything "predetermined." What is predetermined however is your GOPeresque characterizations of these statements or any other that doesn't fit the neo-con paradigm.

[observantx]

Scooter is Darth & Turdblossom's fall guy. And the rest of us are the fall guy for this lying, power hungry, devious and criminal White House.

It is astounding how willing so many are to continue being the fall guy for this ruinous administration.

It's truly amazing that after seeing solid evidence, over and over, of how these gangsters mouth the most rotten garbage as if it was ambrosia, stab anyone in the back who impedes them, cooks intelligence to make money, spends the blood of our troops like water to build their own little oil fiefdoms, and spits on our Constitution because "It's only a g*dd*amn piece of paper"; there are those who continue to hold their hands over their ears and say "La-LA-LA-LA, I can't hear you.

Truly amazing and tragic.

[reflections4]

%u2022 Libby is convicted on 4 counts. The jury believed that Libby lied when he said that he learned of Wilson%u2019s wife from a reporter and not from government officials as he had testified before the FBI and the grand jury. The jury likely got it right. However, he was not convicted of twisted the intelligence to justify going to war and he was not convicted of outing a CIA agent, Valerie Plame, as some are claiming. In fact, it was never proven she was covert. In the highly charged atmosphere of false charges being made against the administration by a highly visible critic, Libby either knowingly or unknowingly went too far and mentioned to the press that Wilson%u2019s wife worked for the CIA in his effort to get the press to investigate and write on why Wilson was really sent to Africa. Wilson had slandered the Bush administration, lied about who sent him to Africa, and lied about what he found in Africa and he was in danger of causing Americans to doubt the integrity of the Bush administration if his story remained. Wilson%u2019s story needed to be refuted. Libby obviously was afraid of losing his job after Bush threatened to fire anyone who leaked classified information to the press and therefore he lied to the FBI and grand jury on how he learned of Wilson%u2019s wife identity. In fact there was no crime until after Fitzgerald was appointed as special prosecutor. What human has not sinned when trapped in certain situations? I think everything got out of hand.

[lochlan-2009]

Now if we could only get the rest of this organized crime ring called the Bush Administration.

[tuckerndfw]

This morning, Pat Robertson claimed that Bush should pardon Libby because there was no underlying crime.

I don't recall what he claimed about the impeachment of Bill Clinton for perjury (the same crime Libby committed) but I do know the GOP controlled Congress impeached a president for the same crime.

Obviously, the radical right uses different standards for their own crooks and sexual deviants than they use for everyone else.

[nyckate]

gunnerv1 - sweetie - LOL - Bush preferred dressing up in a cheerleading outfit to serving in Nam and Cheney's just a plain old coward -- somehow you got yourself so turned around in your head that you chose weak-willed scardy cats as your 'heros'!!!

[rharrin1]

"These colors never run" (unless your a liberal)).
Posted by gunnerv1 at 07:33 AM : Mar 07, 2007

Or unless your name is gunnerv1

[clemenhagen1]

Attention MisPerception5:

What is truly "sad justice" would be the fact that conservatives on the blinded right continue to spin a case that clearly affected national security during a time of war. They deliberately and knowing exposed an entire CIA front-operation, Brewster-Jennings. Why would they expose the name and identity of anyone who had ever worked for and/or associated with Brewster-Jennings? This front company provided cover for investigations into nuclear weapons proliferation! How is exposing and endangering the lives of that company not a serious breach of national security? It's treason to reveal Brewster-Jennings and the "sad justice" is that you on the right continue to apologize and make excuses for such a clear act of treason and disloyalty.