Skipper wrote:
wrote:
At the time the prosecutor began investigating the retaliatory "outing"
of Valerie Plame, the (alleged) crime of lying under oath to the grand
jury had not yet been committed.
Retaliatory outing? What were they retaliating for? Could it be for the
illegal politically motivated activities of the Wilsons?
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Skipper
See how easy this is? As long as we have agreed that the outing was
"retaliatory", the question of whether she was outed at all is also
carried, is it not?
What an interesting, tragic, turn of events. It's much like the early
days of Watergate. Too bad, also. It effectively knee caps GWB for the
rest of his term, and even though he's a terrible president
representing a selfish and destructive contingent of the far right he
is still the only president we've got until 2009.
We'll never have antoher president that isn't prone to doing, or
surrounding himself with people who do, dishonest things. To get
elected to that office, and often to get reelected, one must play by
some very unfair and vicious rules. The newly elected presidents fill
the top positions in the administration with "pay-back" jobs for the
people who proved more unscrupulous and ruthless than their opponents
and who (through the political process) have nearly always demonstrated
that they have no difficulty lying to the American public en masse.
Scooter Libby was one of the original New American Century gang. If he
is convicted, may he spend his New American Century in jail.