Politics > Politics-USA > Republicans Cheney and Bush are sworn to uphold the law but.................................................
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"Harry Hope" |
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06 Jun 2007 07:38:26 AM |
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Republicans Cheney and Bush are sworn to uphold the law but................................................. |
From The Associated Press, 6/6/07:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070606/ap_on_an/the_warm_embrace;_ylt=Ah8p7JHBAGPpI5OmL8OfrEjMWM0F
Analysis: Libby case a twist on justice
By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON -
The latest twist in the CIA leak scandal has Vice President *****
Cheney saying he hopes his former chief of staff, now sentenced to 30
months in prison, will eventually get off.
And that, legal experts say, is an odd statement for a vice president
to make.
While expressing support for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney and
President Bush are also in the position of being officials sworn to
uphold the law, running the branch of government that prosecuted
Libby.
"It's a disappointment whenever a person who occupies a high office
and takes an oath doesn't respond to a demonstrated serious criminal
event in a serious governmental way," former
Iran-Contra prosecutor John Barrett said Tuesday night.
"It's an adversary process and I understand the personal dimension,
but the United States is the side of the case that President Bush and
Vice President Cheney are on. Those are their jobs," said Barrett, now
a law professor at St. John's University in New York City.
In the Valerie Plame case, Bush and particularly Cheney are more than
mere friends of Libby, and more than mere disinterested public
officials.
Their actions are within the scope of the criminal investigation.
Both were witnesses who underwent questioning by Special Counsel
Patrick Fitzgerald.
Within hours of Libby's sentencing, Cheney issued a statement saying
that "the defense has indicated it plans to appeal the conviction in
the case."
"Speaking as friends, we hope that our system will return a final
result consistent with what we know of this fine man," said Cheney,
saying that he was speaking on behalf of himself and his wife.
In a more measured response, Bush said through a spokesman that he
"felt terrible for the family."
"Libby's lies derailed the investigation, and Cheney's role has never
been fully explained; the comments of the president and especially the
vice president are troubling in this context," said Penn State
University law professor Lance Cole, a former attorney for Democrats
on the Senate Whitewater Committee and a consultant to the 9/11
commission.
Cheney's statement is unusual historically, says presidential scholar
Stanley Kutler, author of a well-known book on the Watergate scandal.
"I know of no time in Watergate where someone who was convicted got
the warm embrace of those in power," said Stanley Kutler, author of
"The Wars of Watergate."
For former prosecutors like Barrett, "crime is crime," whether it has
a political backdrop to it or not.
For presidential scholars like Kutler, the Libby case is an instance
of the Bush administration's supporters bemoaning what they call the
criminalizing of political conduct, an assertion Kutler calls
"spurious."
There is a parallel in the Iran-Contra scandal.
Supporters of the Reagan administration criticized independent counsel
Lawrence Walsh for what they said was criminalizing a political battle
between the executive branch and Congress.
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Lawless Republicans sure do love their scandals, don't they.
Harry
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06 Jun 2007 07:50:05 AM |
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On Jun 6, 8:38 am, Harry Hope <riv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
From The Associated Press, 6/6/07:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070606/ap_on_an/the_warm_embrace;_ylt=Ah...
Analysis: Libby case a twist on justice
By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON -
The latest twist in the CIA leak scandal has Vice President *****
Cheney saying he hopes his former chief of staff, now sentenced to 30
months in prison, will eventually get off.
Why wouldn't he? No crime was actually committed.
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