And The Winner (So Far)…
…for most hyperventilatingly overreaching reaction to the Libby verdict goes to (drum roll, please!) -
The stunning, vehement verdict in the Scooter Libby trial—that he lied, repeatedly, big time—isn’t really about Scooter Libby at all. It is about how and why we went to war in Iraq, and about how Vice President Dick Cheney got us there.
Fineman is, naturally, wrong on all counts – the verdict was not about those other things, and the jurors told us so. So did Joseph Wilson himself…and there was nothing stunning about it; most courtroom observers predicted it (hey, when a jury is out ten days, if you don’t get a hung jury, you’re cooked)…but don’t clean off the shelf space for your trophy yet, Howard…after all, Frank Rich, MoDo, and Eleanor Clift have yet to weigh in…
Comrades,
Real justice in this case wasn’t served today, nor will it be served tomorrow. Real, palpable, justice will only be served when Joe Wilson is indicted, sent to trial, convicted, and sent to prison for lying under oath to Congress.
Hopefully, the President will issue Mr. Libby a pardon, although it better accompany a pardon for the two Border Patrol Agents doing time for doing their job.
Respects,
What did Joe Wilson lie under oath to Congress about?
And since when is justice relative? If a rapist is convicted today, does it mean nothing because a car thief is still walking the streets?
If anything, all this debacle showed was the truley insipid nature of “leak” politics. We have seen it in all administrations. Libby didn’t leak squat. Or at least he wasn’t convicted of it, nor was he charged. Can anyone really remeber every little detail of every cnversation you have with the people you deal with everyday? Perjury is a cop out charge, especially in this gossip and leak rich environment. Don’t get me wrong, it is a crime, and in most cases it should be punished. But here, I think it was an over reach.
We had a cop up here in Boston who was charged, tried, and convicted federally of perjury. He had to prove he didn’t see something. It took 10 years and Bob Bennet to get his conviction overturned. He just started back to work as a Patrolman. He lost a lot of years, but justice prevailed. I think it will here to.
As far as I could tell, they were all lying. Russert, Mitchell, Fleisher, Wilson, Plame, Wilson, Cooper….all of them and more.
From Wikipedia article on Joe Wilson:
I don’t know for certain, but I would assume that the “description” mentioned was given in testimony before Congress.
I just want to know how a verdict can be “vehement.”