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I Call for Justice
By Clarice Feldman
In this week's episode of Rome (a superb HBO series which increasingly reminds me of the Nation's Capital), Servilia, whose son was killed in a power grab, knelt before the door of manipulative Attia, mother of Octavian and lover of Marc Anthony, the two men responsible, calling out in a haunting cry,
"Attia of the Julii, I call for justice."
She did so because the unavailing legal system was broken, and curses (which were taken seriously in those days) were the one remaining way most people had to redress grave wrongs.
I call for justice for Scooter Libby because he has had none in this ridiculous matter.
But at whose door do I stand to shout my curses?
Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame who cooked up a series of lies to undermine the Administration in the middle of the war?
The media, which megaphoned them and falsely suggested that someone had deliberately outed an undercover agent for political reasons, following the lead of The Nation's David Corn?
Former CIA head Tenet, who insisted the Department of Justice investigate a routine referral for reasons which are still unclear but seem to be pique and revenge? Who refused to clarify the record about Wilson: who sent him, and what he found, and what happened to those findings? For dragging out the declassification of the National Intelligence Estimate which showed the Wilson report supported rather than contradicted the estimate?
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell and his Deputy Dick Armitage, who knew Armitage leaked and hid from the President and public that fact, letting Libby and the entire White House staff be put through the wringer?
The FBI which poorly investigated the matter, jiggered the notes of the interrogations and somehow lost the key inculpatory notes?
Former Attorney Ashcroft who allowed himself to be nose ringed by the mandarinate into recusing himself from looking into the matter?
Ashcroft's Deputy, Comey, who promised Senator Schumer when he was being confirmed that he would appoint a special counsel to investigate the matter and who then, in direct contravention of the Statute, made the appointment of Patrick Fitzgerald, an appointment at odds with the U.S. Constitution? Comey, who tap danced the nature of the appointment to make it appear that there was an actual crime being investigated and not-as it turns out-that he was handing an open season fishing license to a proven master angler? And who days later, after unlawfully handing Fitzgerald the powers of the Attorney General, authorized him to look into the process crimes-which in truth is all they ever were after.
Fitzgerald, who set it upon himself to find any process violation he could find, and who tricked an unsuspecting Libby, who knew he'd not leaked Plame's name to anyone into repeated FBI and grand jury interrogations in the hope of finding any memory inconsistency, no matter how immaterial or insignificant on which to hang his hat?
Shall I curse the right side of the aisle which never likes to get its skirts dusty in the forum, even if their enemies are armed to the teeth and eviscerating their allies right before their noses? You know who I mean.
Charge a Clintonite with wrongdoing and the entire Department of Justice sits on the news until his friends have worked out an appropriate spin and a time to leak it when it will do him the least harm. Consider the merest possibility that someone in the Administration might have done something wrong and Andrea Mitchell has the news of the investigation on the air in an hour and his allies flee in fright that they might get their garments dirty by speaking in his defense.
Shall I blame the judge who let the prosecution get away with introducing into evidence prejudicial news accounts of limited relevance or probative value while denying the defense an opportunity to fully make its case? Who permitted the prosecutor to make scandalous charges on his rebuttal -- for which he had not offered a shred of evidence and which went beyond the defendant's closing statement -- the last thing the jury would be allowed to hear.
Shall I blame the jury which seems to have been unable to find the pony so it reconstructed it out of flip charts and post it notes?
This entire process has been an outrage from beginning to end.
How preposterous is it to watch Nancy Pelosi strutting about the forum today-her record filled with appointments like William Jefferson's to head Homeland Security and John Conyers to head the Judiciary? A Speaker who has the chutzpah to say,
"Today's guilty verdicts are not solely about the acts of one individual. The testimony unmistakably revealed -- at the highest levels of the Bush Administration - a callous disregard in handling sensitive national security information and a disposition to smear critics of the war in Iraq."
And I explode with laughter at the Cassius-like Kerry who sneered,
"This verdict brings accountability at last for official deception and the politics of smear and fear.... This trial revealed a no-holds barred White House attack machine aimed at anyone who stood in the way of their march to war with Iraq. It is time for President Bush to live up to his own promises and hold accountable anyone else who participated in this smear. It is also well past time for Vice President Cheney, who according to the testimony was protected by Scooter Libby's lies, to finally acknowledge his role in this sordid episode."
Sordid the episode is, but not because of anything Libby did. And "a troubling picture" of Washington it is-but not of this Administration. The Bush crowd is guilty only of terminal naiveté and the foolish idea that high standards of probity will ever beat the opposition's utter unscrupulousness and willingness to misuse the legal system to their own partisan ends, even if it means the ruination of an innocent and capable man and enormous hardship to his family.
Democrats and the Media, I Call for Justice.
Clarice Feldman is an attorney in Washington, DC, who has covered the Libby Trial for American Thinker.
I Call for Justice
By Clarice Feldman
In this week's episode of Rome (a superb HBO series which increasingly reminds me of the Nation's Capital), Servilia, whose son was killed in a power grab, knelt before the door of manipulative Attia, mother of Octavian and lover of Marc Anthony, the two men responsible, calling out in a haunting cry,
"Attia of the Julii, I call for justice."
She did so because the unavailing legal system was broken, and curses (which were taken seriously in those days) were the one remaining way most people had to redress grave wrongs.
I call for justice for Scooter Libby because he has had none in this ridiculous matter.
But at whose door do I stand to shout my curses?
Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame who cooked up a series of lies to undermine the Administration in the middle of the war?
The media, which megaphoned them and falsely suggested that someone had deliberately outed an undercover agent for political reasons, following the lead of The Nation's David Corn?
Former CIA head Tenet, who insisted the Department of Justice investigate a routine referral for reasons which are still unclear but seem to be pique and revenge? Who refused to clarify the record about Wilson: who sent him, and what he found, and what happened to those findings? For dragging out the declassification of the National Intelligence Estimate which showed the Wilson report supported rather than contradicted the estimate?
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell and his Deputy Dick Armitage, who knew Armitage leaked and hid from the President and public that fact, letting Libby and the entire White House staff be put through the wringer?
The FBI which poorly investigated the matter, jiggered the notes of the interrogations and somehow lost the key inculpatory notes?
Former Attorney Ashcroft who allowed himself to be nose ringed by the mandarinate into recusing himself from looking into the matter?
Ashcroft's Deputy, Comey, who promised Senator Schumer when he was being confirmed that he would appoint a special counsel to investigate the matter and who then, in direct contravention of the Statute, made the appointment of Patrick Fitzgerald, an appointment at odds with the U.S. Constitution? Comey, who tap danced the nature of the appointment to make it appear that there was an actual crime being investigated and not-as it turns out-that he was handing an open season fishing license to a proven master angler? And who days later, after unlawfully handing Fitzgerald the powers of the Attorney General, authorized him to look into the process crimes-which in truth is all they ever were after.
Fitzgerald, who set it upon himself to find any process violation he could find, and who tricked an unsuspecting Libby, who knew he'd not leaked Plame's name to anyone into repeated FBI and grand jury interrogations in the hope of finding any memory inconsistency, no matter how immaterial or insignificant on which to hang his hat?
Shall I curse the right side of the aisle which never likes to get its skirts dusty in the forum, even if their enemies are armed to the teeth and eviscerating their allies right before their noses? You know who I mean.
Charge a Clintonite with wrongdoing and the entire Department of Justice sits on the news until his friends have worked out an appropriate spin and a time to leak it when it will do him the least harm. Consider the merest possibility that someone in the Administration might have done something wrong and Andrea Mitchell has the news of the investigation on the air in an hour and his allies flee in fright that they might get their garments dirty by speaking in his defense.
Shall I blame the judge who let the prosecution get away with introducing into evidence prejudicial news accounts of limited relevance or probative value while denying the defense an opportunity to fully make its case? Who permitted the prosecutor to make scandalous charges on his rebuttal -- for which he had not offered a shred of evidence and which went beyond the defendant's closing statement -- the last thing the jury would be allowed to hear.
Shall I blame the jury which seems to have been unable to find the pony so it reconstructed it out of flip charts and post it notes?
This entire process has been an outrage from beginning to end.
How preposterous is it to watch Nancy Pelosi strutting about the forum today-her record filled with appointments like William Jefferson's to head Homeland Security and John Conyers to head the Judiciary? A Speaker who has the chutzpah to say,
"Today's guilty verdicts are not solely about the acts of one individual. The testimony unmistakably revealed -- at the highest levels of the Bush Administration - a callous disregard in handling sensitive national security information and a disposition to smear critics of the war in Iraq."
And I explode with laughter at the Cassius-like Kerry who sneered,
"This verdict brings accountability at last for official deception and the politics of smear and fear.... This trial revealed a no-holds barred White House attack machine aimed at anyone who stood in the way of their march to war with Iraq. It is time for President Bush to live up to his own promises and hold accountable anyone else who participated in this smear. It is also well past time for Vice President Cheney, who according to the testimony was protected by Scooter Libby's lies, to finally acknowledge his role in this sordid episode."
Sordid the episode is, but not because of anything Libby did. And "a troubling picture" of Washington it is-but not of this Administration. The Bush crowd is guilty only of terminal naiveté and the foolish idea that high standards of probity will ever beat the opposition's utter unscrupulousness and willingness to misuse the legal system to their own partisan ends, even if it means the ruination of an innocent and capable man and enormous hardship to his family.
Democrats and the Media, I Call for Justice.
Clarice Feldman is an attorney in Washington, DC, who has covered the Libby Trial for American Thinker.
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So Fitzgerald tricked Libby into not only "forgetting" what happened, but into making up details and a cover story? He must be a great prosecutor.
So much for accountability.... but I guess that's par for the course...
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
fitzgerald KNEW that armitage was the source, and yes, he continued the case to get people to testify for 8 hours so he could find inconsistencies.
fitzgerald KNEW that a lib, armitage, is the one that outed plame, but damnit, he was going to get something...and the drive-by-media will comply, and superficial observations will become reality in the parallel universe we seem to live in these days.
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
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how about address a point made in the article? No, the source isn't unbiased, but is anyone unbiased? the coverage of this has been a joke and political leaders are linking this to iraq intelligence when it had NOTHING to do with iraq intelligence.
I haven't been around too long, but the coverage of this trial has been so unconnected from reality, i'm having a difficult time coming to terms with it....
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Poor Libby must just be another member of this "naive" administration. Just a bunch of babes in the woods, these guys. I can't believe it. How awful for the media and the Democrats to take advantage of wide eyed baby bunnies like Scooter and Cheney and Rumsfeld.
Scooter soooo got a raw deal. That mean prosecutor tricked him. Scooter couldn't have had any concept of how a grand jury works, or how a criminal prosecution works or any of that tricky lawyer talk. He didn't know the ways of Washington. He's not a jaded beltway insider. It's not like he graduated magna cum laude at Yale and then earned a J.D. degree at Columbia. It's not like he's worked for House of Representatives, the RAND Corporation, PNAC, the Department of Defense, the State Department, both Bush administrations, and a defense contractor. And he DEFINITELY wasn't the attorney for infamous Clinton pardon reciever Marc Rich.
Oh, wait. He did do all those things.
How exactly is Armitage a lib? He was appointed by Bush, worked for Reagan, Dole, and is/was a member of PNAC. While he might have been moderate compared to the rest of the Bush administration, he is far from a lib.
Libby perjured himself, and was convicted.... While I think the perjury trial was a waste of time, it brought to light the efforts in which this administration has gone to control the message, and help manufacture the case for war.
Question for you... did you think the Lewinsky thing was a witch hunt and a big waste of time too?
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
i havent been watching the trial. couldnt care less. but honestly, i dont see why your panties are in such a twist. you've never had a problem with made up links to iraq before...
how?
I'm not kidding...enough with the inuendos...connect the dots for me...
HOW does this conviction that libby lied that he got his source from bloated tim evidence that bush manufactured evidence.
THAT is my problem, that this leap of faith by the left has been made. please, elaborate.
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that's because there never were any made up links....and that's not what this trial was ever about, even though you want it to be so.
And I try to make this kind and clear
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Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
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then i guess it's a damn shame you weren't on the jury so they coulda heard the real story about all the evidence, since you clearly know more than they do.
i see nothing in that article that is problematic in terms of a trial. all high profile trials in this country are circus-like and nothing described here hasn't been done before.
how about instead of diverting the conversation, you stay on point.
HOW did anything in this trial, or anything determined by the jury have ANYTHING to do with making the case for the war in Iraq. How about instead of diverting, we stay on topic?
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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uhhh... the post you quoted dealt with nothing but the topic...
Hail, Hail!!!
well let's revert...
the point is..is that this trial had NOTHING to do with Bush, Cheney, or satan et, al. the drive by media and democrats are treating it as such.
libby was convicted because he said he got his info from tim russert. all the while plame was actually outed by her husband and by richard armitage. now mind you, the prosecutor KNEW THIS..he KNEW who outed plame...but pretended he didnt....and put people on the stand for hours, just to find a single inconsistency....you don't view that as corrupt?
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
i suppose you have evidence that proves this conclusively? above and beyond this article.
yeah, it sounds shady, but im not quite willing to take the american thinker's word for it. in addition, im not exactly shocked or appalled. it's the same witch-hunting the republicans used to try to get bill clinton and it's tough shit that the tactics they invented came back to bite them in the ass.
That really has to piss you off.
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That's the face of the Left-Wing Conspiracy?
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It just goes to prove... Conspiracies are nothing but farts in the wind.
Hail, Hail!!!
I think he should go to jail just because of his nickname... 'Scooter'.
Hail, Hail!!!
step away from the kool-aid
'Even the jury admitted that it sympathised with the defendant, although not enough to exonerate him from the specific question at hand: did Scooter lie under oath?...
...There is only one way the Libby saga can scoot to the next more damaging chapter. And that is if Scooter reveals the grimy entrails of the Bush White House.
That is assuming he possesses genuine, incriminating information and the public is prepared to believe a man who has been convicted of lying under oath.'
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Looter Skibby is a traitor to this country, and for the cause of what?? personal gain, political gain, party affiliation politcial gain..
he should be happy these are times of conscience, otherwise...string him up...maybe than he will speak on who he is covering for.
please elaborate.
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
I will back you up on that one...good point.
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