Bush Commutes Sentence of Scooter Libby
by Charles Coughlin
Only days after trying to ruin the entire country with his completely treasonous illegal alien amnesty, George W. Bush has commuted the prison sentence of Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, who was sentenced to jail for lying to investigators in regards to the outing of a CIA agent, Valerie Plame. This is a truly outrageous act even in comparison to Nixon, who resigned on the verge of an impeachment, or Bill Clinton, who never sank so low that he was pardoning criminal associates before they went to jail.
Scooter Libby was convicted of lying to prosecutors who were investigating the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. Contrary to the lies of the neocons, Valerie Plame was COVERT. Someone in the Bush administration outed her in retaliation for her husband, Joe Wilson, publishing a report that said Iraq did not seek Nigerian uranium (which exposed pre-war statements by Bush and the neocons as lies). The judge in the Libby case stated that Ms. Plame was a covert CIA agent heading a highly covert operation and the CIA had taken steps to keep her identity covert. Countless blowhard talk radio hosts (and some neocon presidential candidates) have flat out LIED about Ms. Plame’s covert status in an effort to excuse Libby’s felonious behavior and to protect Dick Cheney, who was almost certainly the source of the highly classified information.
Why else would Scooter Libby lie to investigators if he were not covering something up –in this case protecting his boss, Dick Cheney? (more…)