Majority Leader Reid Is Right: No Libby Pardon

[Caro]

Woo hoo, Harry! Go git ‘em! From U.S. Newswire:

Reid Statement on the Libby Verdict

… "I welcome the jury's verdict. It's about time someone in the Bush Administration has been held accountable for the campaign to manipulate intelligence and discredit war critics. Lewis Libby has been convicted of perjury, but his trial revealed deeper truths about Vice President Cheney's role in this sordid affair. Now President Bush must pledge not to pardon Libby for his criminal conduct."… (Emphasis added.)

From the Huffington Post:

Majority Leader Reid Is Right: No Libby Pardon

By Brent Budowsky

Note: I worked in the core group writing the original CIA Identities Law with Senator Lloyd Bentsen, its original sponsor.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is 100% right: the President should immediately and publicly state that there will be no pardon in the Scooter Libby case.

The jury has spoken: powerfully, decisively, and authoritatively.

This is now about the integrity of the judicial process.

This is now about the integrity of intelligence information and the integrity of intelligence in the decision about whether to go to war, and in the conduct of war.

As Patrick Fitzgerald observed, the defense has the option of approaching the prosecution to seek a lower sentence, in return for new testimony.

As the prosecution stated at trial, there is a cloud over the Vice President and a cloud over the White House.

The President should say, as Majority Reid stated: no pardon…

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Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

[Fresh_Start]

1. Bush Daddy ought to slap Junior

around until he gets it. You don't pardon people who expose agents and deteriorate our intelligence abilities.

[DinahMoeHum]

2. Tee hee! It WAS Daddy Bush who established that law about

outing CIA agents.

Junior & Co. are getting hoisted on Poppy's petard!

:evilgrin:

[misanthrope]

3. You kidding me? These guys?!...

...I think with what we've seen from this administration to date, the issuance of a presidential pardon is a foregone conclusion.

[Dr Fate]

4. Every Democrat in front of a camera or mic. needs to demand this over & over.

The more Bush refuses to answer, the better.

[ObaMania]

5. Yes, but the DEMs must add the line..

.. If he does pardon Libby then that is an admission of his own guilt.

[Dr Fate]

6. Works for me. I'll freak out (In agood way) if they go that far. Sounds "too radical"

n/t

[Donald Ian Rankin]

7. I disagree - I really hope Libby gets pardoned.

I think it would be a fairly thorough nail in the coffin of the 2008 Republican presidential candidate, and I'm more than willing to trade Libby going free for four years of a Democratic president.