Guilty Scooter
Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff found guilty of obstruction of justice, perjury, and lying to the FBI.
posted by juvenal_urbino | 10:52 AM
Desperate Houseflies: The Magazine
Feel free to pull out your trusty fly swatter and comment on what is posted here, realizing that this odd collection of writers may prove as difficult to kill as houseflies and are presumably just as pesky. “Desperate Houseflies” is a magazine that intends to publish weekly articles on subjects such as politics, literature, history, sports, photography, religion, and no telling what else. We’ll see what happens.
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9 Comments:
What are the chances of the appeals, re-appeals, and one-more-time appeals keeping Libby out of prison until an outgoing POTUS can pardon him? Is that a possibility?
Not only possible, likely.
Like in fishing - The Big Ones get away!
Yeah. The conviction is a win for the rule of law -- it says a jury of ordinary citizens can still point at one of the most powerful men in the country and say, "You're a criminal and you're going to jail." -- but the pardon power still gives the most powerful man the option of throwing that away.
I expect we'll see a whole slew of pardons between Nov. 2008 and Jan. 20, 2009. Bush 41 did it. Clinton did it. So will W. Most of W's will be of political figures, though, guilty of crimes against the Constitution. The big ones you refer to. (He may even be the first president to proactively pardon himself.)
You'll have to explain that parenthetical theoretical, if you don't care. You think Dubya could need pardoning?
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I don't know if pardoning oneself is even possible, much less proactively. I just think Pres. Bush is likely to think, with justification, that given the nature of his presidency, a lot of people who served in his administration may face criminal investigations once he's no longer in office and therefore can't keep their activities secret -- possibly even including himself, and certainly including the vice president. That's the thing about Executive Orders: the next president can totally undo all of them. Or if not that president, the one after. Or the one after.
I still have enough faith in our system to think that, sooner or later, somebody will undo them and the secrets will come out. Depending on lots of factors, there may be a lot of former Bush officials running for cover when that happens. If he can, I think Bush will head that off. (The new Bush Doctrine: preemptive pardons.)
Preemptive pardons. LOL!
Nothing to worry about. I'm sure Hillary would give him a pardon, don't you think?
:-)
I do, actually.
Please give to the Bush-Clinton Pardon Fund.
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