ar called Joseph Wilson persuaded the press that the White House committed a crime in outing his CIA wife. Prosecutor Ahab Fitzgerald knew that this was not true; that Richard Armitage (an opponent of the Iraq War, by the way) was the leaker; and that the whole purpose of mentioning Valerie Plame was not to destroy her career or, God forbid, endanger her life but rather to explain the otherwise mysterious decision by elements of this administration to send that guy on a sensitive mission to Niger.We are told that the case reveals how “obsessed” the vice president’s office was with the Wilson business. This is highly doubtful considering the range of matters the administration was then contending with. But suppose they were? The tacit assumption that there was something sinister about the vice president attempting to rebut a very damaging op-ed in one of the country’s most influential newspapers is nonsensical.This is a textbook case of the criminalization of policy differences. If Bush haters believe that the president “lied us into war,” they are fully entitled to support a Democrat in 2008. But their blood lust will not be satisfied with that. Libby must be led away in handcuffs.Libby was convicted of lying about how and when he learned that Valerie Plame was a CIA employee. Though trial watchers are suggesting that his memory lapses are not credible, we can certainly agree, can we not, that this datum was of less than intimate interest to Mr. Libby?Much as one hates to go over this ground again, let’s recall that President Clinton, by contrast, was testifying about matters that human beings simply do not tend to forget. Here is an excerpt from his deposition “Did you have an extramarital sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky?” Answer: “No.” Mr. Clinton further denied having encouraged Ms. Lewinsky to lie in a sworn statement (suborning perjury), and testified that he could not recall ever being alone with her.Further, while there was no underlying offense in the Libby case, http://www.buytomsonlinecheap.com - imagenes de toms , i.e., there was no violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, there was an underlying offense in the Clinton case–the sexual harassment of Paula Jones. Indeed, the former president paid Ms. Jones $850,000 to settle the case.Lewis Libby was doing his best to serve the country and was sandbagged by an out-of-control prosecutor and a lynch-mob press. This miscarriage will leave conservatives bitter. Don’t be surprised if the worm turns again.[标签:标题]
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If you wanted a textbook example of what is wrong about appointing a special prosecutor, the prosecution of White House aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby is a classic. Let’s go back to square one to see how this sorry chapter in criminal law unfolded. Advertisement The charge that was trumpeted through the media was that the Bush administration had leaked the fact that Joe Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA in retaliation against him for saying that Saddam Hussein was not seeking uranium in Niger, contrary to intelligence reports cited as one of the reasons for invading Iraq.Since there is a law against revealing the identity of a CIA agent, a great hue and cry went up for a special prosecutor to find and prosecute whoever leaked that information.Some in the media gleefully anticipated seeing White House adviser Karl Rove, or perhaps even Vice President Dick Cheney, being frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs.Attorney General John Ashcroft appointed a special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, to investigate these charges.H
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