[Tyrian]

The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Now it begs the question...Who will replace him?  A guy called "Tricycle?"  Or maybe "Training Wheels?"

EDIT:  Link text changed for great irony.

[aldo_14]

Segway.

[DeepSpace9er]

The case has been going on for three years. There is no case, and Scooter was the only way that Fitzgerald could get out of a three year long sham investigation into a crime that never happened without looking like a complete imbicile.

[Tyrian]

@Aldo -- Segway?

@DS9er -- You're Republican, aren't you?

[Mr. Vega]

The case has been going on for three years. There is no case, and Scooter was the only way that Fitzgerald could get out of a three year long sham investigation into a crime that never happened without looking like a complete imbicile.

Yeah, threatening dissenting journalists shouldn't be a crime now should it?

[Turey]

Yeah, threatening dissenting journalists shouldn't be a crime now should it?

Nope. Should be perfectly legal to threaten journalists of all types if you're conservative.

[DeepSpace9er]

Think about it.. there was a huge moment to try and convict the entire Bush administration from top to bottom with this whole thing. Everything from vast right wing conspiracy to personal vendettas was assumed. If there was really any crime committed in this whole thing it would be the special prosecutor dragging a case on, in which in knew there was no crime committed a month into it, for 3 years in the hope of snagging something ie a fishing expedition in which there was no one Fitzgerald answered to, except the left wing base which screamed for blood because Bush, Cheney, and Rove have to be guilty of something. Its a pity that Scooter Libby was the poor sap that had to fall on the sword to make Fitzgerald justify his utter waste of time and taxpayer dollars.

Im not saying that the Executive branch should be able to get away with crimes ie Nixon, but the prosecution of any suppossed crime should not be able to use his case as a political tool in which he has no accountability.

..and yes i am a registered republican. I guess because i am a racist, sexist, chauvanist, bigot, and homophobe, my opinion really doesnt count because i am too stupid, ignorant, and closed minded to see otherwise. I would like a cigarette please....

[Turambar]

i say try him for treason and execute him, that way the pardon that bush gives him at the end of his term can be post-mortem

[Kosh]

The case has been going on for three years. There is no case, and Scooter was the only way that Fitzgerald could get out of a three year long sham investigation into a crime that never happened without looking like a complete imbicile.

So I guess revealing the identities of undercover CIA operatives is not a potential threat to national security? 

The bottom line is that he lied under oath because he was the fall guy. I guess it's ok lie about this, but not ok to lie about have affairs with other women.......


Not like either of them is OK, but I think the former is a bigger threat to national security than the latter.

[aldo_14]

Think about it.. there was a huge moment to try and convict the entire Bush administration from top to bottom with this whole thing. Everything from vast right wing conspiracy to personal vendettas was assumed. If there was really any crime committed in this whole thing it would be the special prosecutor dragging a case on, in which in knew there was no crime committed a month into it, for 3 years in the hope of snagging something ie a fishing expedition in which there was no one Fitzgerald answered to, except the left wing base which screamed for blood because Bush, Cheney, and Rove have to be guilty of something. Its a pity that Scooter Libby was the poor sap that had to fall on the sword to make Fitzgerald justify his utter waste of time and taxpayer dollars.

Im not saying that the Executive branch should be able to get away with crimes ie Nixon, but the prosecution of any suppossed crime should not be able to use his case as a political tool in which he has no accountability.

..and yes i am a registered republican. I guess because i am a racist, sexist, chauvanist, bigot, and homophobe, my opinion really doesnt count because i am too stupid, ignorant, and closed minded to see otherwise. I would like a cigarette please....

This is one of those 'I only have faith in the justice system when I agree with it' type things, isn't it?

[karajorma]

The real irony is I'll bet that DeepSpace9er was all in favour of criminal charges when Clinton lied about getting a blowjob.

Lying placing CIA operatives in danger by blowing their cover though, you should get a walk on that one.

[Nuclear1]

The real irony is I'll bet that DeepSpace9er was all in favour of criminal charges when Clinton lied about getting a blowjob.

Lying placing CIA operatives in danger by blowing their cover though, you should get a walk on that one.

Don't go there with the assumptions.  Clinton lied in front of a Grand Jury, and the Bush Administration has committed some shady acts as well.  They're both criminal acts.

[DeepSpace9er]

Lying placing CIA operatives in danger by blowing their cover though, you should get a walk on that one.

That was the key element of the case. She was not covert and hadnt been for years. If she had been, than there would have been a crime committed. This information was all known years ago by the prosecution yet the case continued anyway.

[Bobboau]

for some reason I seem to remember the conservitives all *****ing and moaning when this thing first happened cause some 'liberal biased media reporter' had put a CIA operative in danger. but maybe it's just the splitting headache I have right now.

[Unknown Target]

Lying placing CIA operatives in danger by blowing their cover though, you should get a walk on that one.

That was the key element of the case. She was not covert and hadnt been for years. If she had been, than there would have been a crime committed. This information was all known years ago by the prosecution yet the case continued anyway.

What about him getting many of her contacts killed? Contacts that were probably still able to provide very useful information to the US?

[aldo_14]

Lying placing CIA operatives in danger by blowing their cover though, you should get a walk on that one.

That was the key element of the case. She was not covert and hadnt been for years. If she had been, than there would have been a crime committed. This information was all known years ago by the prosecution yet the case continued anyway.

Does that mean you support the removal of any sort of cover for CIA agents not 'covert'?  (WTF is covert if not 'under cover', anyways?)

Let's just think of this.  Her work is still classified.  She had a 'non-official cover', which is working for a non-government organisation and the hardest cover to create.  The leaking of her real Id did not just only compromise her cover, but that of the front company itself.

what is more important - relevant - is that you've taken the crime, and tried to justify it based on the victim.  It's along the same lines of "stealing is wrong... unless they can afford it, in which case it's not really that bad"

[Kosh]

Lying placing CIA operatives in danger by blowing their cover though, you should get a walk on that one.

That was the key element of the case. She was not covert and hadnt been for years. If she had been, than there would have been a crime committed. This information was all known years ago by the prosecution yet the case continued anyway.

She was on the list of covert operatives, even if she had been rotated stateside. The real issue is that this also comprimises the safety of her connections abroad, connections that may have useful information to the US?

[Rictor]

So the only convicition even remotely related to the Iraq debacle, a crime against humanity costing hundreds of thousands of lives, millions of refugees and trillions in taxpayer dollars, started and daily perpetuated by an elaborate tapestry of lies, is...for a legal technicality ensuing from ratting out a CIA agent cause her husband fell out of favour?

I am thoroughly unimpressed, asm I'm sure the world is.

[Scuddie]

One free cookie to anyone who can guess what I'm thinking.

[karajorma]

Don't go there with the assumptions.  Clinton lied in front of a Grand Jury, and the Bush Administration has committed some shady acts as well.  They're both criminal acts.

Which surely was the entire point I was making.