What Cheney Must Be Saying To Bush

[ThomWV]

It seems to me that this is what Cheney must be saying to Bush right now. You have to pardon Libby. If you do not pardon Libby he will reveal information about me that will lead to my impeachment in order to keep himself out of prison. If a move begins to impeach me they will come for you too. So you must pardon Libby to save your own Presidency.

Bet on it.

[Fridays Child]

1. I believe it.

[burythehatchet]

2. that's pretty accurate.

I, burythehatchet, call upon Vice President Dick Cheney to come clean and give the prosecutor the information that Libby obstructed. Come on Mr. Cheney, you can do it.

[Olney Blue]

3. No, I think he will say: Fuck Libby. It's his word against ours.

And we always win.

[tblue]

5. When the * hits the fan, it's every man for himself. Darth will only go out of his way for Sc**ter

if he believes it will save his own ass.

[AlinPA]

8. Scooter has a family with children; he won't squeal. Those bastards in

the White House are dirty- they wouldn't think twice about harming his family.

[Olney Blue]

10. Ya got that right!

[quiet.american]

4. I really don't think Libby will sqeal -- omerta and all that.

It's a little late now to start talking -- and from what I've read, Fitzgerald hasn't offered any deals. I could be wrong though.

[AlinPA]

7. He won't squeal. He won't have to, because he will be pardoned

by Bush**.

[Horse with no Name]

6. Or is there any room in Paraguay next to Kenny's house that we can hook

Scooter up with?

[karlrschneider]

9. I don't see how revealing information would work at this point...he's already sentenced.

Any deal now would be (highly) contingent on persuading the court to change the sentence, and it seems pretty unlikely to me the prosecution could guarantee it.

[spindrifter]

11. That's right.

He'll probably get the 11th hour pardon. But the time to sing was when he could use the song to bargain with Mr. Fitzgerald. Right now there is nothing he is likely to have that would entice the special prosecutor to come forward with a retraction of a jury verdict and sentencing. I do not see Judge Walton allowing a jury verdict to be trashed.

[karlrschneider]

12. Does a prosecutor have the legal ability to nullify a verdict? I don't think so.

And I can't see any court willing to mitigate the sentence in return for previously undisclosed information. I could accept the possibility that a corrupt judge might do it for the right price but the results would be the opposite of what anybody who'd be coercing him to do it would really want anyway! What a tangled web, huh?
Yikes.

[blarbushie]

13. Tim Russert's very words just now on MSNBC

On Tucker's show