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Editorial See other Editorial Articles Title: I Call for Justice I Call for Justice By Clarice Feldman In this week's episode of Rome (a superb HBO series which increasingly reminds me of the Nation's Capital), Servilia, whose son was killed in a power grab, knelt before the door of manipulative Attia, mother of Octavian and lover of Marc Anthony, the two men responsible, calling out in a haunting cry, "Attia of the Julii, I call for justice." She did so because the unavailing legal system was broken, and curses (which were taken seriously in those days) were the one remaining way most people had to redress grave wrongs. I call for justice for Scooter Libby because he has had none in this ridiculous matter. But at whose door do I stand to shout my curses? Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame who cooked up a series of lies to undermine the Administration in the middle of the war? The media, which megaphoned them and falsely suggested that someone had deliberately outed an undercover agent for political reasons, following the lead of The Nation's David Corn? Former CIA head Tenet, who insisted the Department of Justice investigate a routine referral for reasons which are still unclear but seem to be pique and revenge? Who refused to clarify the record about Wilson: who sent him, and what he found, and what happened to those findings? For dragging out the declassification of the National Intelligence Estimate which showed the Wilson report supported rather than contradicted the estimate? Former Secretary of State Colin Powell and his Deputy Dick Armitage, who knew Armitage leaked and hid from the President and public that fact, letting Libby and the entire White House staff be put through the wringer? The FBI which poorly investigated the matter, jiggered the notes of the interrogations and somehow lost the key inculpatory notes? Former Attorney Ashcroft who allowed himself to be nose ringed by the mandarinate into recusing himself from looking into the matter? Ashcroft's Deputy, Comey, who promised Senator Schumer when he was being confirmed that he would appoint a special counsel to investigate the matter and who then, in direct contravention of the Statute, made the appointment of Patrick Fitzgerald, an appointment at odds with the U.S. Constitution? Comey, who tap danced the nature of the appointment to make it appear that there was an actual crime being investigated and not-as it turns out-that he was handing an open season fishing license to a proven master angler? And who days later, after unlawfully handing Fitzgerald the powers of the Attorney General, authorized him to look into the process crimes-which in truth is all they ever were after. Fitzgerald, who set it upon himself to find any process violation he could find, and who tricked an unsuspecting Libby, who knew he'd not leaked Plame's name to anyone into repeated FBI and grand jury interrogations in the hope of finding any memory inconsistency, no matter how immaterial or insignificant on which to hang his hat? Shall I curse the right side of the aisle which never likes to get its skirts dusty in the forum, even if their enemies are armed to the teeth and eviscerating their allies right before their noses? You know who I mean. Charge a Clintonite with wrongdoing and the entire Department of Justice sits on the news until his friends have worked out an appropriate spin and a time to leak it when it will do him the least harm. Consider the merest possibility that someone in the Administration might have done something wrong and Andrea Mitchell has the news of the investigation on the air in an hour and his allies flee in fright that they might get their garments dirty by speaking in his defense. Shall I blame the judge who let the prosecution get away with introducing into evidence prejudicial news accounts of limited relevance or probative value while denying the defense an opportunity to fully make its case? Who permitted the prosecutor to make scandalous charges on his rebuttal -- for which he had not offered a shred of evidence and which went beyond the defendant's closing statement -- the last thing the jury would be allowed to hear. Shall I blame the jury which seems to have been unable to find the pony so it reconstructed it out of flip charts and post it notes? This entire process has been an outrage from beginning to end. How preposterous is it to watch Nancy Pelosi strutting about the forum today-her record filled with appointments like William Jefferson's to head Homeland Security and John Conyers to head the Judiciary? A Speaker who has the chutzpah to say, >> "Today's guilty verdicts are not solely about the acts of one individual. The testimony unmistakably revealed -- at the highest levels of the Bush Administration - a callous disregard in handling sensitive national security information and a disposition to smear critics of the war in Iraq." And I explode with laughter at the Cassius-like Kerry who sneered, >> "This verdict brings accountability at last for official deception and the politics of smear and fear.... This trial revealed a no-holds barred White House attack machine aimed at anyone who stood in the way of their march to war with Iraq. It is time for President Bush to live up to his own promises and hold accountable anyone else who participated in this smear. It is also well past time for Vice President Cheney, who according to the testimony was protected by Scooter Libby's lies, to finally acknowledge his role in this sordid episode." Sordid the episode is, but not because of anything Libby did. And "a troubling picture" of Washington it is-but not of this Administration. The Bush crowd is guilty only of terminal naiveté and the foolish idea that high standards of probity will ever beat the opposition's utter unscrupulousness and willingness to misuse the legal system to their own partisan ends, even if it means the ruination of an innocent and capable man and enormous hardship to his family. Democrats and the Media, I Call for Justice. Clarice Feldman is an attorney in Washington, DC, who has covered the Libby Trial for American Thinker.
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#1. To: BeAChooser (#0)
Wow. More hilarious reichwing spew. I gotta hand it to you, BAC. You sure can find the most ridiculous and funny stuff to post. I mean, if I were going to take this crap seriously, I'd say, "you know, Scooter is going to get sentenced to no more than 5 years in the pokey; which is a hell of a lot less than some dude coming across the border with a hundred pounds of weed, which ain't gonna get no one killed, unlike what Scooter did. Aside from that, Bush is going to pardon him in about eighteen months, so Scooter ain't gonna have to do no real time; and whatever he does will be in a federal camp, which will give him plenty of time to write his book, the advances alone on which ought to make him a millionaire." Of course, he won't make as much money as he'd have made had he stayed on as a GOP crony and not been caught, but he'll do just fine. I know lots of guys who'd gladly do eighteen months in a federal camp in exchange for three or four mil. That's to say nothing of the money Scooter's gonna get from his grateful pals that he took the fall for. No. Scooter's going to be just fine. He'll come out of this deal filthy rich. Who knows, he may even wind up with his own radio show like other GOP criminals Ollie North and GGordon Liddy. I shed no tears for this piece of shit.
It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.
How shamelessly these turds can stand and condemn clinton, et al, for LYING or OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE or SOME OTHER OFFENCE, and then when it is 'their' guy doing the same thing, its' all trumped up, phony, desperate, anything to win, blah blah blah. I daresay one could go back to whitewater research stuff at tos1, and just pull articles and change the names.........and it would apply to this bunch of crooks. HOWEVER, were you to show the same posters the changed names, they would disown their comments! Double standards run deep--not just at the top.
Well, they've gone from the majority party to freefall in barely 2 years. It's gotta be hard on them.
It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.
Yawn. Change the "R" after Libby's name to a "D" and this shill's screed would be about the need to execute him for his high treason. Conversely- the Dems celebrating this conviction would be calling it a travesty of justice if Libby were a Dem. Who but rubes of the two party fraud takes these tit for tat investigations over minutia seriously? Libby should go down- not for these vague charges but because he is a war criminal as is everyone who has served in this administration as are most of Congress and a goodly number of media personalities who flacked and flogged the lies.
I will take them going down piecemeal, if necessary. The thread initiator has on other threads noted his/her/its purpose of posting was to reach lurkers and others who aren't the regulars here in an effort to influence them. I'm dutifully doing my part to try to show that both are corrupt, that both sides whine and wail about the 'injustice of it all'...so that these lurkers and others can begin to see that it is the same monster--two headed monster. Hence, nothing ever changes. The gradual decline of the United States is on schedule. Reckon we all gotta do what we gotta do. I appreciate your efforts; they are well thought out, and well written; and hopefully serve to show the deepness of the problems to lurkers and others who are open-minded enough to try to find TRUTH.
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