Cheney “saddened” by Libby sentence.
By on Jun 5th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Cheney “saddened” by Libby sentence.
In a new statement on Scooter Libby’s sentencing, Vice President Cheney says he is “deeply saddened by this tragedy. “Speaking as friends,” Cheney says, “we hope that our system will return a final result consistent with what we know of this fine man.” The Swamp notes, “Unlike most White House press releases, this particular one gave as a contact someone at the Williams and Connolly law firm.”
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Lawyer up, Dickster.
June 5th, 2007 at 3:59 pmWhich tragedy? The one where Libby was fairly tried, convicted, and sentenced (that’s a tragedy? When a criminal with no respect for the judicial system lies to investigators and goes to jail for it?), or the one where a covert operative was outed in the effort to score political points, which as we all know is an act of treason.
June 5th, 2007 at 4:00 pmI suggest that Darth Cheney watch himself. Fitzgerald might be gunning for him next.
June 5th, 2007 at 4:01 pmDon’t you require a heart to feel sorrow?
June 5th, 2007 at 4:02 pmYou’ll never get me coppers! see?!
June 5th, 2007 at 4:02 pmWaaah! Somebody get Darth Cheney a Waaaaaah-mbulance!!
I love it! These evil Repukes are getting kicked in the nads.
June 5th, 2007 at 4:02 pm“Speaking as friends,†Cheney says, “we hope that our system will return a final result consistent with what we know of this fine man.â€
Then he should be quite happy with this result.
June 5th, 2007 at 4:03 pmLook at Cheney trying to act like he’s human. We’re not buying it robocreep. After all, who shoots a friend in the face and runs and hides until he sobers up. Not somebody who cares about his friends.
June 5th, 2007 at 4:03 pmtragedy? weird.
June 5th, 2007 at 4:04 pmCheney “saddened†by Libby sentence? You bet he is. But not because of his “friendship†with Libby. No, no. Libby is the first bite from justice, the one of many bites that’ll be eating its way toward the center, toward the middle where the crimes against the nation will be exposed.
June 5th, 2007 at 4:04 pmI only wish Cheney was joining Scooter in prison.
June 5th, 2007 at 4:05 pm#11, soon…
June 5th, 2007 at 4:08 pmTom3 sez:
Cheney doesn’t deserve a prison sentence.
He deserves a firing squad.
June 5th, 2007 at 4:10 pmCheney is only sorry because Scooter got caught doing the bidding of Cheney.
June 5th, 2007 at 4:10 pmTucker Carlson just called everyone but himself, of course, “morons” for taking pleasure with Scooter’s sentence. He doesn’t mention that his daddy, Richard Carlson, is head cheerleader and fund raiser for Scooter.
Awe – wipe that tear little buckaroo.
June 5th, 2007 at 4:11 pmAwwww, “Dick” must be sad he forgot to mail his letter of support to the court.
June 5th, 2007 at 4:19 pm“deeply saddened by this tragedy”
That’s right, the justice system at work = tragedy.
uuuuuuuhhhh…I’m an untouchable, uuuuuuuuuhhhhh…remember that.
June 5th, 2007 at 4:19 pmLooks like justice is on the march now, eh Dickie?
June 5th, 2007 at 4:31 pm“… tragedy…”
TRAGEDY?!?!!!?
wow… must be projection… he’s thinking of his own ass…
or, it could be just good ol’ denial… nah… it’s just another LIE…
June 5th, 2007 at 4:35 pmanother distraction and attempt to confuse…
…
Cheney “saddened†by Libby sentence.
How so? Cheney threw him under the bus, and is saddened that he lived? Sad that the justice department screwed it up again? Sad that Libby will write a book exposing the devils in the white house? Sad that he (cheney) might be next to go?
June 5th, 2007 at 4:39 pmtripmaster – not just a heart, but a soul, too. makes it that much harder to fathom… ITMFA (but impeach cheney first)
June 5th, 2007 at 4:43 pmCheney….. people who violate the law go to jail. Where is the tragedy? Perhaps, that you didn’t beat the system?
June 5th, 2007 at 4:46 pmawwwwwwww….poor widdow dickie…wiv hith widdow dickie.
June 5th, 2007 at 4:52 pmI suspect that before too long as was the case with Augusto Pinochet, there will be quite a few countries to which Cheney will not be able to travel for fear of being arrested at the airport and taken into custody to face a War Crimes tribunal.
June 5th, 2007 at 4:53 pm“Speaking as friends,†Cheney says, “we hope that our system will return a final result consistent with what we know of this fine man.â€
I agree. The sentence should have been longer.
June 5th, 2007 at 5:00 pm“Speaking as friends,†Cheney says, “we hope that our system will return a final result consistent with what we know of this fine man.â€
Then he should be quite happy with this result.
Comment by mongo — June 5, 2007 @ 4:03 pm
Exactly.
Besides, if Cheney had any info that would have exonerated Scooter, then he should have volunteered to get his ass on the stand at the trial.
Just like the rest of this administration, Cheney doesn’t give a damn about the justice system in this country.
It’s one thing to disagree with the verdict. But has Dick ever praised and commented about how our justice system worked the way it’s supposed to?
Odds are, however, that Cheney is secretly pleased with the outcome of the trial because his sorry ass was spared.
June 5th, 2007 at 5:14 pmDick is only saddened by the fact that he couldn’t talk Scootie into a hunting trip before the trial.
June 5th, 2007 at 5:35 pmYou’re next Darth Veeper…See you at the Hague!
June 5th, 2007 at 5:38 pmWhen the noose is being tightened around your neck, we’ll all be standing by to jeer, ala Saddaam.
If you will…
June 5th, 2007 at 5:41 pmSomebody take his hazmat suit out of his car and watch him wet his depends…
The slap on the wrist that Libby got is disgraceful.
We should demand that he receive, at a minimum, a sentence that equals the harshness dealt out to Sandy Berger for stealing and destroying documents from the national archives and lying about that. Why should Libby get a mere 30 months when Berger ………..what? No prison time for Berger? Never mind.
June 5th, 2007 at 6:02 pmWhat a joke! Lefties called it a tragedy when Tookie Williams got the needle, but Cheney can’t say the same thing.
June 5th, 2007 at 6:39 pmBoy these trolls just don’t get it, do they? They seem to believe that because the people involved in leaking Valerie Plame’s name to the press did not think it was illegal to do so (the CIA had a different opinion onthe matter), they believe, therefore, that it’s okay to lie about what you did. This is because to these people, lying, especially to protect a powerful person, is a virtue, not a crime. I still hear them whine and complain that Libby should never have been charged with anything because nobody was charged with leaking Plame’s name. This is ass backwards, of course. They couldn;t find out who leaked her name because people like Libby (and I do not believe he was the only one) lied and attempted to thwart the investigation into learning the truth. That was a crime, and for that, Libby will and should go to jail.
And if the trolls still can’t understand the problem, they should imagine that it was one of their own family members whose covert career was ruined because a bunch of war-mongering fools wanted to keep the truth from coming out. Then let’s see them say that lying to protect somebody was not a crime. And these people claim to love America?
June 5th, 2007 at 7:12 pm#32 – Wayne
Well said, and right on target, as always.
The trolls won’t get it, because they will not hear it.
June 5th, 2007 at 7:21 pmBoy these trolls just don’t get it, do they? They seem to believe that because the people involved in leaking Valerie Plame’s name to the press did not think it was illegal to do so (the CIA had a different opinion onthe matter), they believe, therefore, that it’s okay to lie about what you did. This is because to these people, lying, especially to protect a powerful person, is a virtue, not a crime. I still hear them whine and complain that Libby should never have been charged with anything because nobody was charged with leaking Plame’s name. This is ass backwards, of course. They couldn;t find out who leaked her name because people like Libby (and I do not believe he was the only one) lied and attempted to thwart the investigation into learning the truth. That was a crime, and for that, Libby will and should go to jail.
You talking about Susan Mcdougal?
June 5th, 2007 at 7:31 pmTold ya.
June 5th, 2007 at 7:33 pmYou talking about Susan Mcdougal?
Comment by m12 — June 5, 2007 @ 7:31 pm
You mean the person that you wingnuts sent to jail because she would *lie* for you? Yeah, truth is an *allergy* for you, isn’t it dum bass?
June 5th, 2007 at 7:39 pmm12: “What a joke! Lefties called it a tragedy when Tookie Williams got the needle, but Cheney can’t say the same thing.”
OK, well it just might be that there was evidence that Tookie Williams was innocent of the charges. To anyone but a balls-out sociopath, the execution of an innocent man is a tragedy. Keep in mind that everywhere they have performed DNA tests on death-row inmates, they have found innocent men. To a thinking person, the implication is clear: we, as a society, have executed innocent men.
What’s wrong with you, man? Really. What the hell is wrong with you?
June 5th, 2007 at 7:46 pmWayne and Zooey, and these are the same people who for months repeated the right-wing propaganda that Plame was a “desk-jockey” and not covert. Now that the CIA has admitted she was a covert agent, one would think that they would have questions about the right-wing liars who led them along by the nose. Evidently, these people are not only fools, but have no self-respect as well.
June 5th, 2007 at 7:50 pm#37
Last time I checked, Tookie was found guilty in a court of law.
I guess being fairly tried, convicted, and sentenced is a tragedy when its a liberal pet job.
June 5th, 2007 at 7:51 pmYou mean the person that you wingnuts sent to jail because she would *lie* for you? Yeah, truth is an *allergy* for you, isn’t it dum bass?
No, I mean the person sent to jail because she tried to cover for the Clintonites. She knew the pardon was coming, after all.
June 5th, 2007 at 7:53 pmThe only tragedy is that you “DICK” are not going to jail with him.
Hating the repukian mafia daily
June 5th, 2007 at 8:01 pmEvidently, these people are not only fools, but have no self-respect as well.
Comment by Bluedog49
That, and they continue to spew their prior lies. They are hopeless and useless.
June 5th, 2007 at 9:09 pmI’m really saddened that a spy’s name was leaked to the press for political reasons.
June 5th, 2007 at 9:13 pmIf something is making Dick Cheney sad, it’s pretty much guaranteed to be a good day for America.
June 5th, 2007 at 9:31 pmF*** YOU Cheney YOU MISERABLE PIECE OF SH*T !!!!
YOU AND LIBBY AND ROVE SHOULD ALL HANG FOR TREASON IN OUTING VALERIE PLAME WILSON !!!!
June 5th, 2007 at 10:11 pmThey are hopeless and useless.
Comment by Zooey — June 5, 2007 @ 9:09 pm
That’s how my first wife describes me.
And yes, I’ve only been married once.
June 5th, 2007 at 10:46 pmCheney’s Leer
Among all of Dick Cheney’s distasteful contorted facial expressions the one that was most chilling and evil, which I wish that I had not seen, was the leer he transmitted to a GOP faithful audience when he disclosed that AQ in Iraq now numbers fifteen thousand.
His leer fully transmitted that he used the propaganda lies, that AQ was connected to Iraq, to get our guns and oil companies into Iraq. It also transmitted the, to him, deliciously evil twist that the lie has now morphed into the truth.
That AQ is now several thousand strong in Iraq is a grotesque result of the pathetically naive Neocon misadventure. It’s also a plank in their arguments that we need to stay.
“The dolts, (meaning the American public and the MSM), don’t have a clue as to what evil we will employ to accomplish our goals,” is what the leer beams to the mightiest of the Bush base.
…as the sunlight flickered on the cross in his lapel…
—cognitorex—
June 6th, 2007 at 10:23 am