Scooter Libby, the former cheif of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, convincted in March of two counts of perjury, one count of obstructing justice in a grand jury investigation, and one of the two counts of making false statements to federal investigators, will spent the next 30 months in jail.
I still think he's the fall guy and now he will be in the jail for as long as the people he fell for are in power.
Pathetic.
She felt like she was hit in the gut
She claims her name was carelessly and recklessly abused by the administration
She was in fact a victim.
Valerie Plame Wilson was a loyal American who risked her life in service as part of the CIA. She was an American spy. Today, she appeared for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to warn Congress on exactly how dangerous and two-faced this administration is. So dangerous they would throw any American to the wolves who disagrees with them...or is close to anyone to disagrees with them.
Today's testimony from Plame Wilson was heartwrenching. Here's a woman who had one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, and she wasn't doing it for the fame, for the glory, but for her country. She was a loving wife, mother of two young children and because her husband dared speak to power, she, a wife and mother, was thrown to the wolves.
This case will always to be me the textbook reason this administration has been a disgrace. If this is how they treat American heroes, how can they support the troops? How can they care about any other American? If they would throw a CIA agent to the wolves, any one of us would be foresaken for our beliefs.
Meanwhile, it seems the Wilson are getting the last laugh. The couple is set to move to New Mexico and start a new life...and Joe Wilson has been named as a potential candidate for Congress in New Mexico in the future. Valerie has a book coming out this year; tentatively titled "Fair Game," and will be followed by a movie. (Richard Gere and Sharon Stone have been rumored to star as the Wilsons.)
The administration, meanwhile, is in shambles, with low approval rating, and a Congress controlled by the Democrats tying the hands of the out-of-control Commander-in-Chief.
Scooter Libby is off to prison...perhaps the first of many coming from this administration
Libby was convicted of:
-obstruction of justice when he intentionally deceived a grand jury investigating the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame;
-making a false statement by intentionally lying to FBI agents about a conversation with NBC newsman Tim Russert;
-perjury when he lied in court about his conversation with Russert;
-a second count of perjury when he lied in court about conversations with other reporters.
Jurors cleared him of a second count of making a false statement relating to a conversation he had with Matt Cooper of Time magazine.
Why do I still feel like he's a scapegoat?
