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 Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:55 pm Post subject: CBS News: "In short, Scooter is a weasel. " |
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CBS News, NY - 1 hour ago
On The Lessons Of The Libby Affair
QUESTION #3 – Wasn’t Libby really just a patriotic
official trying to advance his government’s interests?
ANSWER – Myriad ways to do that were available to him
without resorting to perjury.
As CBS law analyst Andrew Cohen pointed out, he could
have said he forgot who told him about Plame’s CIA
connection. As a last resort he could have exercised his
Fifth Amendment rights and refused to talk at all.
He is a lawyer and knows what obstruction of justice is.
He decided to do it.
Keep in mind that what he did also had real victims
beyond Plame and Wilson. Libby was convicted of telling the
FBI and a grand jury that NBC’s Russert was the source of
his information that Plame was a CIA agent.
That lie carried the potential of painting a
prosecutorial bulls eye on the back of Russert, who was an
innocent bystander. Outside the Beltway, there is a
technical phrase for this type of lie: Back stabbing.
Why would Scooter do such a thing? Because the press has
a tradition of refusing to cooperate with leak
investigations and he assumed that Russert would refuse to
talk to the FBI or the prosecutor, risking time in jail for
contempt. In short, Scooter is a weasel.
CBS News, NY - 1 hour ago
QUESTION #1 – Why did Vice President Cheney order Scooter
Libby to conduct the smear campaign against the Wilsons when
he could have easily picked up the ...
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/03/08/publiceye/entry2546813.shtml |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:21 pm Post subject: Re: CBS News: "In short, Scooter is a weasel. " |
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On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:55:12 GMT, playing@always.edu (Doug Bashford)
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CBS News, NY - 1 hour ago
On The Lessons Of The Libby Affair
QUESTION #3 – Wasn’t Libby really just a patriotic
official trying to advance his government’s interests?
ANSWER – Myriad ways to do that were available to him
without resorting to perjury.
As CBS law analyst Andrew Cohen pointed out, he could
have said he forgot who told him about Plame’s CIA
connection. As a last resort he could have exercised his
Fifth Amendment rights and refused to talk at all.
He is a lawyer and knows what obstruction of justice is.
He decided to do it.
Keep in mind that what he did also had real victims
beyond Plame and Wilson. Libby was convicted of telling the
FBI and a grand jury that NBC’s Russert was the source of
his information that Plame was a CIA agent.
That lie carried the potential of painting a
prosecutorial bulls eye on the back of Russert, who was an
innocent bystander. Outside the Beltway, there is a
technical phrase for this type of lie: Back stabbing.
Why would Scooter do such a thing? Because the press has
a tradition of refusing to cooperate with leak
investigations and he assumed that Russert would refuse to
talk to the FBI or the prosecutor, risking time in jail for
contempt. In short, Scooter is a weasel.
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Now I'm hurt. I would have thought that CBS was above this type of
sterotyping. Many weasels are kind, gentle creature who only attack
right wingers and tear out their throats because they are right
wingers and need to have their throats torn out.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:04 am Post subject: Re: CBS News: "In short, Scooter is a weasel. " |
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On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:21:20 -0800, 3172 Dead
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On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:55:12 GMT, playing@always.edu (Doug Bashford)
wrote:
CBS News, NY - 1 hour ago
On The Lessons Of The Libby Affair
QUESTION #3 Đ WasnŐt Libby really just a patriotic
official trying to advance his governmentŐs interests?
ANSWER Đ Myriad ways to do that were available to him
without resorting to perjury.
As CBS law analyst Andrew Cohen pointed out, he could
have said he forgot who told him about PlameŐs CIA
connection. As a last resort he could have exercised his
Fifth Amendment rights and refused to talk at all.
He is a lawyer and knows what obstruction of justice is.
He decided to do it.
Keep in mind that what he did also had real victims
beyond Plame and Wilson. Libby was convicted of telling the
FBI and a grand jury that NBCŐs Russert was the source of
his information that Plame was a CIA agent.
That lie carried the potential of painting a
prosecutorial bulls eye on the back of Russert, who was an
innocent bystander. Outside the Beltway, there is a
technical phrase for this type of lie: Back stabbing.
Why would Scooter do such a thing? Because the press has
a tradition of refusing to cooperate with leak
investigations and he assumed that Russert would refuse to
talk to the FBI or the prosecutor, risking time in jail for
contempt. In short, Scooter is a weasel.
Now I'm hurt. I would have thought that CBS was above this type of
sterotyping. Many weasels are kind, gentle creature who only attack
right wingers and tear out their throats because they are right
wingers and need to have their throats torn out.
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Are ferrets considered weasels? I would think those could be
stereotyped as nasty animals. My friend had one and it shit all over
the house. Even in his bed...
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