Fitzgerald: Libby deserves 2-3 years in prison.
Fitzgerald: Libby deserves 2-3 years in prison.
“Former White House aide I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby betrayed the public’s trust and deserves to spend 2 1/2 to 3 years in prison for obstructing the CIA leak investigation, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said Friday.”
“Particularly in a case such as this, where Mr. Libby was a high-ranking government official whose falsehoods were central to issues in a significant criminal investigation, it is important that this court impose a sentence that accurately reflects the value the judicial system places on truth-telling in criminal investigations,” Fitzgerald wrote in court documents.
U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton has broad discretion over Libby’s fate. Walton faces two important questions: whether to send Libby to prison and, if so, whether to delay the sentence until his appeals have run out.
Libby’s lawyers have not filed their sentencing documents yet but are expected to ask that he receive no jail time.
UPDATE: Christy Hardin Smith has much more.
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May 25th, 2007 at 3:51 pmblah, blah, blah…libtards…blah, blah, blah…surrender…blah, blah, blah…moonbats…blah, blah, blah…islamofacists…blah, blah, blah…
May 25th, 2007 at 3:53 pmpretty good recommendation from fitzgerald considering his investigation into treason was corrupted by the AG, DOJ, OVP, POTUS, the media and the USA program in general. are we to imagine that he didn’t receive phone calls and meetings like the other USA’s did? he has a lot to say, and no one appears to be asking.
wonder if anyone will hire him to continue his investigation. isn’t it strange that he isn’t continuing?
May 25th, 2007 at 3:56 pmHang him to give the rest of the thugs in the crime family of view of what they are faced with for all their corruption.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:57 pmNot to worry, Karl has the fix in;
May 25th, 2007 at 3:58 pmJudge Walton Named to Foreign Intel Surveillance Court
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2007/05/judge_walton_named_to_foreign.html
Heh. Yeah. 2-3 years – all of it on a parole.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:59 pmWhat a difference 30 years makes. During the Watergate scandal, it was Republican staff attorney Fred Thompson who famously asked “are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the Oval Office of the President?” Now, likely GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson is a charter member of the Scooter Libby Legal Defense Trust.
For the sad story of another Republican who no longer believes in “law and order,” see:
May 25th, 2007 at 4:00 pm“Fred Thompson: Watergate Hero Turned Plamegate Villain.”
so why couldn’t he issue the sentence still, FISA or not? There’s no conflict of interest as far as I can tell….
May 25th, 2007 at 4:01 pm#1 – a needle pulling thread. miserable troll…
May 25th, 2007 at 4:05 pmSo?
So JAIL his TREASONOUS azz.
Hope he gets KILLED while there.
One less TRAITOR to the USA.
THAT’S “so”…
May 25th, 2007 at 4:06 pmso why couldn’t he issue the sentence still, FISA or not? There’s no conflict of interest as far as I can tell….
Comment by whiteyfresh — May 25, 2007 @ 4:01 pm
Because he has been bought off? Look who appointed him. Just sayin’.
May 25th, 2007 at 4:12 pmYeah but — um — um — but — um –
Sandy Burglar!
May 25th, 2007 at 4:15 pmI thought you guys were the compassionate ones among the rest of us knuckle-draggers! Hoping for an innocent mans death! How sweet!
May 25th, 2007 at 4:18 pmbeefeater..um, ok… I looked… sheldon snook?His boss, the Head of the DC Court system?(the name escapes me)…. what’s your point?
May 25th, 2007 at 4:21 pmThank God for Presidential pardons!
May 25th, 2007 at 4:21 pmHe deserves to be hanged from his short and curlies while being battered like a pinata by all of the family members that have lost somebody in Iraq. That’s what he deserves. 3 years is getting off easy.
May 25th, 2007 at 4:24 pmI thought you guys were the compassionate ones among the rest of us knuckle-draggers! Hoping for an innocent mans death! How sweet!
Actually, a GUILTY man’s death, and a TRAITOR to boot.
And as far as presidential pardons go,
nice of YOU to support TREASON by Libby, Bush, etc.
TREASON over COUNTRY, right???
And GOD sees ALL that these MURDEROUS TRAITORS have done.
In His name, no less.
MURDERERS like Bush, Osama, Saddam and Hitler.
The last 3 of whom were Bush Family “business associates”.
See YOU in hell neocon shiteater (cause I’LL be THERE),
May 25th, 2007 at 4:29 pmMr. Bush
MURDEROUS WAR CRIMINAL
COWARDLY TRAITOR TO THE USA (TM–BushCrimeCo, Inc.)
innocent man?
death’s too good for them. “counterpoint the metaphor ….”
May 25th, 2007 at 4:36 pmBush should pardon Fitzgerald.
May 25th, 2007 at 4:36 pmDidn’t our country use to hang or send to the electrick chair people that comitted treason.? What was that couple’s name.? Sorry can’t remember…Then of course we have the poor fellow in one of the southern state’s that got 14 year’s for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his babies, let us not forget the fast track Texas has for doing in the guilty and no reprive from baby bush even for the women that has turned to his faith…Oh shit I forgot, if it’s a butt buddie of the closet lover’s in the bush administration that diffrent..Doubt this treasonious basterd or any of the dreadful administration will ever be held accountable, hell no problem now with rep and rep lit all in charge..Have another meeting and run the clock out….Blessings to every one else..
May 25th, 2007 at 4:37 pmHis role in outing an operation that was providing intel on Iran’s nuclear program should be prosecuted as treason.
Hang the dick.
The preceding remark should not be considered by male readers as providing any license to expose oneself.
May 25th, 2007 at 4:38 pmSorry, forgot…I am against capital punishment and think lieing libby should get at least 50 year’s for his crime’s…Blessings
May 25th, 2007 at 4:41 pmDon’t drop the soap, Scooter….
May 25th, 2007 at 4:45 pm“Hoping for an innocent mans death! How sweet!”
Excuse me, but Scooter isn’t innocent. He was found guilty by a jury of his peers. Just because you want him to be innocent doesn’t make him innocent.
May 25th, 2007 at 5:11 pmhe was found guilty of perjury and obst. of justice. Process crimes. This whole thing was a sham. there was no crime here! He outed a pencil pusher who worked at Langley. COVERT OPERATIVES DON’T DRIVE TO CIA HEADQUARTERS EVERY MORNIG FOR WORK!!!!!!!!
May 25th, 2007 at 5:35 pmMORNING FOR WORK!!!!!!!!!!
May 25th, 2007 at 5:36 pmhe was found guilty of perjury and obst. of justice. Process crimes.
Troll
Perjury is a “process crime”? So much for the Constitution.
May 25th, 2007 at 5:39 pmLibby is not going to be sent to a “prison jail” like you an I would be sent to if we comitted his crime, he is going to a “country club jail”.
Why?
May 25th, 2007 at 5:44 pmso the head of the CIA was lying. riiiiiight shutkicker
May 25th, 2007 at 5:44 pmWar criminal ought to be hung, along with Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rice and the rest of them.
May 25th, 2007 at 5:47 pmPerjury is a “process crime� So much for the Constitution.
Comment by gummitch
What do you expect from a shitkicker?
May 25th, 2007 at 5:52 pmi am uploading key parts,
in easily searchable, plain text, of
patrick fitzgerald’s sentencing
memorandum, in u.s. v. libby
right now, at the above link. . .
one juicy bit:
“. . .the law is entitled to every man’s
evidence. Inherent in this principle is the
obligation of a witness to tell the truth,
particularly under oath. . .“
i’ll be adding more of the 21 pages,
some partially redacted, as the afternoon
wears on. . .
keep it spinnin’ in good karma!
May 25th, 2007 at 5:54 pmshitkicker? I thought it was neocon bootlicker
May 25th, 2007 at 5:56 pmHow long he does is less important than where does his time. Bush will pardon him anyway. Hopefully he does time in Marion and “accidentally” falls on a shiv on the way to dinner.
May 25th, 2007 at 6:18 pmThe White House might give Libby gold star for service well done. Monica explained how the DOJ works. Fitzgerald followed the law and the jury found Libby guilty but it’s all Fitzgerald’s fault for not following the Bush policy of not charging GOP criminals. Should be interesting to see how Judge Walton handles this as Wells tried to pay him for a fool. Yes Libby the great lawyer did his best to trick the Judge as he knew Cheney and Rove weren’t going to testifiy in the trial. Let’s hope the GOP friends of Libby visit him in jail as other friends like Abramoff and Duke are forgotten or said now no one knows them. After Monica passes the Bar maybe she will be able to appear in court legally.
May 25th, 2007 at 6:22 pmTreason can and has been punished by death.
libby’s behavior before the Grand Jury stopped a federal investigation into a case of high treason, permitting those responsible to continue doing whatever it was they were doing behind closed doors for additional years.
Yeah, he deserves a couple of years for perjury and obstruction of justice, but I agree with the early comment that he deserves to hang for his treason and the betrayal of his oath of office.
All these scumbags in the bush administration are engaged in making war upon the People of the United States. They all deserve prison sentences of life with no parole.
May 25th, 2007 at 6:42 pmWhat they need to do is put the person (Darth Cheney) that ordered Scooter to do it, in jail.
Join the Ignore Patti 1″ & Valiant Douche Bag Club today !!!
May 25th, 2007 at 7:26 pmDidn’t our country use to hang or send to the electrick chair people that comitted treason.? What was that couple’s name.? Sorry can’t remember.
comment by Sharon
Sharon,
May 25th, 2007 at 7:34 pmI think you mean Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
#20 Sharon,
May 25th, 2007 at 7:36 pmI think you are referring to Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were sent to the electric chair.
I think that sig should be “neocon sh*t eater” or perhaps “neocon sh*t spreader.” Of course, Mr. Cheeto stains like to picture himself as tough, hence his wholly bullsh*t moniker. If you want to kick some sh*t nancy-boy, the recruiting officers are dying to meet you. But not holding their breath…
May 25th, 2007 at 8:03 pmConfiscate his personal assets…
…then sentence him (and his family) to 3 years…
… in the 9th ward of NO…
May 25th, 2007 at 8:40 pmWhy does it matter what Fitzgerald thinks?
How about one of the Libby jurors asking for a pardon?
May 25th, 2007 at 8:49 pmExcuse me, but Scooter isn’t innocent. He was found guilty by a jury of his peers. Just because you want him to be innocent doesn’t make him innocent.
He wasn’t charged with treason, and thus is not guilty of committing treason, regardless of how much the left wants him dead.
Odd, I thought most of you guys were anti-death penalty. Well, at least you are when it comes to child molestors or axe murderers.
May 25th, 2007 at 8:53 pmWhat does it matter what m12 thinks? How about his/her asking to say “Goodbye” to TP?
May 25th, 2007 at 8:56 pmOdd, I thought most of you guys were anti-death penalty. Well, at least you are when it comes to child molestors or axe murderers.
Comment by m12 #43
Well,
…it’s hard to find ANYONE…
,,,averse to killing…
…snakes…
May 25th, 2007 at 9:14 pmHe’ll make someone a sweet little prison bitch…
May 25th, 2007 at 10:06 pmm12 obviously knows nothing about how much power prosecutors have in our justice system. You people really don’t read much besides your prescribed talking points do you?
May 25th, 2007 at 10:08 pmGive Libby 20 years at hard labor at Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco. Yes I know the old prison no longer has inmates, but put Libby in one of the old cells all alone with the wharf rats for company > lol.
May 25th, 2007 at 11:00 pmAmazing! Let me say it slowly for those of you who don’t comprehend the situtation.
There was no crime becasue Ms. Plame was not a covert agent.
Fitzpatrick should have quit as soon as he understood that and he didn’t. Regardless, the good news is President Bush will pardon Libby anyway!!!!
May 26th, 2007 at 11:52 amLet me it slowly for those who can only regurgitate neo-con talking points. Ms. Plame was a COVERT agent until she was outed by Robert No-facts and the Bush administration. A crime was committed, and your repeated attempts at denial and spin won’t change that. Sorry.
May 26th, 2007 at 8:23 pmInteresting comments. For those who believe the Attorney General is correct in not charging Republicans who committ crimes and as Monica said lawyers hired had to follow the Bush policy of Law. I understand why your against Fitzgerald for the rules of the land set by the Constitution. Libby did what he had to do to protect his boss and the President. He was willing to lie under oath as a good soldier to the Republican party. As Kyle Sampson said Fitzgeralds name was considered for firing. Fitzgerald took an oath to up hold the United States system of Justice and he wasn’t willing to committ the crime of fixing cases for the White House. Plame was a covert agent working in Iran to find out if Iran was making nukes. As the White House leaked her name all the covert operation was destroyed. Libby will have to see how grateful the White House is for his loyality. Yes Bush can pardon Libby for all past, present and future crimes as was done with President Richard Milhouse Nixon. At this point Gonzales is blocked from firing Fitzgerald. The United States had the model Legal System until George W. Bush took office. Now we have an Attorney General is doesn’t know the law or is ill with selective memory lost. Monica right out of college put in a job to make sure only loyal Republican lawyers are hired. Monica even said one lawyer who was fired didn’t have experience yet he was a former Attorney General of his State. If Bush/Cheney don’t forget who Libby is like they’ve done with other loyal GOP followers. Maybe Libby will get that pardon I know Abramoff and Duke wish Bush had helped them out.
May 27th, 2007 at 12:08 amAt lease Fingers Foley wont be charged with molesting kids while he held office and that’s the way it should be. GOP and friends can committ crimes, molest kids and steal without being charged with a crime. That’s the new Legal System set up by the White House.