Comments on: Gore: Libby Had ‘Knowledge That Could Incriminate His Bosses In The White House’ http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:01:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: j p h http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/comment-page-6/#comment-3912984 j p h Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:53:52 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/#comment-3912984 this is what cocaine does to you. this is what cocaine does to you.

]]> By: Sandy Burglar http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/comment-page-6/#comment-3912857 Sandy Burglar Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:21:25 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/#comment-3912857 <i>Libby is a convicted felon who deserves to go to jail for 30 months. Comment by Probus — July 5, 2007 @ 9:42 pm</i> If Libby deserves 30 months, then Burglar should get the chair. Libby is a convicted felon who deserves to go to jail for 30 months.

Comment by Probus — July 5, 2007 @ 9:42 pm

If Libby deserves 30 months, then Burglar should get the chair.

]]> By: Lora http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/comment-page-6/#comment-3912359 Lora Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:11:16 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/#comment-3912359 Gore need(sic) to worry more about his DRUG ADDICT SON Comment by FDR — Just as Jeb Bush needs to worry about his drug-addicted children, and George Jr. about his twins who apparently inherited his alcohol problems, hypocrite. Gore need(sic) to worry more about his DRUG ADDICT SON
Comment by FDR —

Just as Jeb Bush needs to worry about his drug-addicted children, and George Jr. about his twins who apparently inherited his alcohol problems, hypocrite.

]]> By: FDR http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/comment-page-6/#comment-3912211 FDR Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:48:49 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/#comment-3912211 Gore need to worry more about his DRUG ADDICT SON Gore need to worry more about his DRUG ADDICT SON

]]> By: Tom3 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/comment-page-6/#comment-3912151 Tom3 Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:57:35 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/#comment-3912151 Fitz should have prosecuted Armitage for the leak. And Fitz should have gone after Rove and Cheney. Fitz should have prosecuted Armitage for the leak. And Fitz should have gone after Rove and Cheney.

]]> By: BARTLEBEE http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/comment-page-6/#comment-3912049 BARTLEBEE Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:10:22 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/#comment-3912049 There is no way congress and a special prosecutor CANNOT investigate this. Its just too blatant. There is no way congress and a special prosecutor CANNOT investigate this.

Its just too blatant.

]]> By: BARTLEBEE http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/comment-page-6/#comment-3912034 BARTLEBEE Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:04:47 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/#comment-3912034 This is not a contraversial decision to commute just because Libby was proven guilty. Its contraversial because the topic in question involves the President and the Vice President, which at the very LEAST, gives the appearance of an attempt to sheild themselves from prosecution. This is not a contraversial decision to commute just because Libby was proven guilty. Its contraversial because the topic in question involves the President and the Vice President, which at the very LEAST, gives the appearance of an attempt to sheild themselves from prosecution.

]]> By: BARTLEBEE http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/comment-page-6/#comment-3912019 BARTLEBEE Fri, 06 Jul 2007 02:59:13 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/#comment-3912019 If you confess to a crime you did not commit, just because there was no crime committed, you still will go to jail for interfering with the investigation, or as its referred to, "obstructing justice". If you confess to a crime you did not commit, just because there was no crime committed, you still will go to jail for interfering with the investigation, or as its referred to, “obstructing justice”.

]]> By: BARTLEBEE http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/comment-page-6/#comment-3912009 BARTLEBEE Fri, 06 Jul 2007 02:56:34 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/#comment-3912009 And while its clear that Bush and Cneney were in on the leak, even if they weren't , which they are, but even if they weren't, it would still not absolve Scooter Libby. Whether a crime was committed or not, Libby was charged, and convicted by a federal grand jury of blocking the federal prosecutors ability to DETERMINE if a crime had been committed. That is Libby's crime. And whether or not a crime was committed, (which it was), Libby was sentenced to jail for obstructing justice by lying to a federal grand jury, which regardless of the RNC worms in here, was proven by a United States Federal Prosecutor to a Federal Grand Jury, and thats all there is too it. And while its clear that Bush and Cneney were in on the leak, even if they weren’t , which they are, but even if they weren’t, it would still not absolve Scooter Libby.

Whether a crime was committed or not, Libby was charged, and convicted by a federal grand jury of blocking the federal prosecutors ability to DETERMINE if a crime had been committed.

That is Libby’s crime.

And whether or not a crime was committed, (which it was), Libby was sentenced to jail for obstructing justice by lying to a federal grand jury, which regardless of the RNC worms in here, was proven by a United States Federal Prosecutor to a Federal Grand Jury, and thats all there is too it.

]]> By: BARTLEBEE http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/comment-page-6/#comment-3911976 BARTLEBEE Fri, 06 Jul 2007 02:48:19 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/#comment-3911976 <em>Libby wasn’t “charged with” having information about his superiors. </em> Comment by spit take — July 5, 2007 @ 1:40 pm Gore didn't say he was. You're reading it wrong. Gore said <em>activities that<b> INVOLVE </b>knowledge of what his superiors in the White House did.</em> And that is 100 percent correct. Libby wasn’t “charged with” having information about his superiors.

Comment by spit take — July 5, 2007 @ 1:40 pm

Gore didn’t say he was.

You’re reading it wrong.

Gore said activities that INVOLVE knowledge of what his superiors in the White House did.

And that is 100 percent correct.

]]> By: Elohim http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/comment-page-6/#comment-3911961 Elohim Fri, 06 Jul 2007 02:46:06 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/#comment-3911961 There is no evidence for God or a historical Jesus either. They are just speculation. There is no evidence for God or a historical Jesus either. They are just speculation.

]]> By: TerrytheTurtle http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/comment-page-6/#comment-3911925 TerrytheTurtle Fri, 06 Jul 2007 02:33:21 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/#comment-3911925 <em>Is this the same Al Gore that invented the Internet or the one whose Mom sang the Union Label lullabye to him 20 years before it was written? Old Al always knows the truth when he sees it. Comment by Bucket — July 5, 2007 @ 9:31 pm</em> **yawn** - try again when you can prove it. Is this the same Al Gore that invented the Internet or the one whose Mom sang the Union Label lullabye to him 20 years before it was written? Old Al always knows the truth when he sees it.

Comment by Bucket — July 5, 2007 @ 9:31 pm

**yawn** – try again when you can prove it.

]]> By: BWIII http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/comment-page-6/#comment-3911802 BWIII Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:47:51 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/#comment-3911802 Richard Armitage... Come in Dick Armitage...? Richard Armitage…
Come in Dick Armitage…?

]]> By: Probus http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/comment-page-6/#comment-3911789 Probus Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:42:14 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/#comment-3911789 Libby is a convicted felon who deserves to go to jail for 30 months. Libby is a convicted felon who deserves to go to jail for 30 months.

]]> By: Bucket http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/comment-page-6/#comment-3911761 Bucket Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:31:02 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/#comment-3911761 Is this the same Al Gore that invented the Internet or the one whose Mom sang the Union Label lullabye to him 20 years before it was written? Old Al always knows the truth when he sees it. Is this the same Al Gore that invented the Internet or the one whose Mom sang the Union Label lullabye to him 20 years before it was written? Old Al always knows the truth when he sees it.

]]> By: muckdog http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/comment-page-6/#comment-3911669 muckdog Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:51:33 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/#comment-3911669 If you're a true believer of man's contributions to "global warming," do you turn the TV off this weekend in support of the concert? Quite a conundrum to be you. If you’re a true believer of man’s contributions to “global warming,” do you turn the TV off this weekend in support of the concert?

Quite a conundrum to be you.

]]> By: Flaco http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/comment-page-6/#comment-3911456 Flaco Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:18:44 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/#comment-3911456 “A few years down the road”, when evidence shows that the people he denounces “cooked the books” to bolster the non-existent case for non-existent WMD? Comment by spit take ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just like those non-existent Kurds that were supposedly gassed by some non-existent chemical. “A few years down the road”, when evidence shows that the people he denounces “cooked the books” to bolster the non-existent case for non-existent WMD?

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Just like those non-existent Kurds that were supposedly gassed by some non-existent chemical.

]]> By: Probus http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/comment-page-6/#comment-3911431 Probus Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:08:44 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/#comment-3911431 Vice President Gore is right Libby did have knowledge that could have posed a problem for this White House. There is a direct conflict of interest here for the president and the vice president. Bush commuted the sentence of someone who could have shed more light on the outing of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame. What President Clinton did was completely different. He never pardoned or commuted the sentence of anyone who was a former White House official. Because the Justice department was not consulted there are some legal questions here that must be addressed when the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Conyers takes up this critical issue. The president may have committed a crime if he tried to protect his own interests in commuting Libby's sentence. Vice President Gore is right Libby did have knowledge that could have posed a problem for this White House. There is a direct conflict of interest here for the president and the vice president. Bush commuted the sentence of someone who could have shed more light on the outing of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame. What President Clinton did was completely different. He never pardoned or commuted the sentence of anyone who was a former White House official. Because the Justice department was not consulted there are some legal questions here that must be addressed when the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Conyers takes up this critical issue. The president may have committed a crime if he tried to protect his own interests in commuting Libby’s sentence.

]]> By: spit take http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/comment-page-6/#comment-3911376 spit take Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:51:50 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/#comment-3911376 <em>So Libby’s paid his fine and served his time. He didn’t even get a pardon Exactly what does he stand to gain?</em> Comment by Campesino — July 5, 2007 @ 5:00 pm Served his time? When did Libby serve ANY time? I must have missed that. Was it around the same time that paris Hilton served <em>her</em> time? So Libby’s paid his fine and served his time. He didn’t even get a pardon

Exactly what does he stand to gain?

Comment by Campesino — July 5, 2007 @ 5:00 pm

Served his time? When did Libby serve ANY time? I must have missed that. Was it around the same time that paris Hilton served her time?

]]> By: spit take http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/comment-page-6/#comment-3911373 spit take Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:49:56 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/gore-on-libby/#comment-3911373 <em>Comment by muckdog — July 5, 2007 @ 4:45 pm How can anyone take Al Gore seriously at this point? He takes contributions from tobacco companies, then goes after them.</em> Umm... Isn't that evidence that he's NOT in their pocket? Isn't that a GOOD thing for a politician? <em>He speaks out against Iraq’s WMD program, then denounces those who do the same a few years down the road.</em> "A few years down the road", when evidence shows that the people he denounces "cooked the books" to bolster the non-existent case for non-existent WMD? Yeah, that's real bad. Much better he should continue to repeat discredited talking points. <em>He makes a movie on supposed “global warming.” Then lives a lifestyle that is completely the polar opposite of how a “true believer” would.</em> It's a shame that Al Gore's "lifestyle" doesn't match the ideal that you believe a "true believer" should aspire to. My guess is that it involves living in a mud hut and writing on birch bark, right? <em>Says there is no way he’ll run for President in 2008… (Do you believe that? I assume it means that he is running.)</em> And NOW you're criticizing him for YOUR OWN assumption about his plans. Nicely done. <em> Say one thing, do the other. Flip flop Al.</em> Jeebus, what a mass of troll droppings. Not a lick of sense in the whole pile. Comment by muckdog — July 5, 2007 @ 4:45 pm

How can anyone take Al Gore seriously at this point?

He takes contributions from tobacco companies, then goes after them.

Umm… Isn’t that evidence that he’s NOT in their pocket? Isn’t that a GOOD thing for a politician?

He speaks out against Iraq’s WMD program, then denounces those who do the same a few years down the road.

“A few years down the road”, when evidence shows that the people he denounces “cooked the books” to bolster the non-existent case for non-existent WMD? Yeah, that’s real bad. Much better he should continue to repeat discredited talking points.

He makes a movie on supposed “global warming.” Then lives a lifestyle that is completely the polar opposite of how a “true believer” would.

It’s a shame that Al Gore’s “lifestyle” doesn’t match the ideal that you believe a “true believer” should aspire to. My guess is that it involves living in a mud hut and writing on birch bark, right?

Says there is no way he’ll run for President in 2008… (Do you believe that? I assume it means that he is running.)

And NOW you’re criticizing him for YOUR OWN assumption about his plans. Nicely done.

Say one thing, do the other. Flip flop Al.

Jeebus, what a mass of troll droppings. Not a lick of sense in the whole pile.

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