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PantyFanatic
07-02-2007, 09:13 PM
What BLAINTENT fucking corruption (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-libby3jul03,1,1900508.story?coll=chi-news-hed&?track=sto-topstory)!






:tear:
jseal
07-02-2007, 09:19 PM
Nonsense.

One of the more entertaining aspects of this brouhaha is that Mr. Libby, whose sentence has been commuted by President Bush, once represented Marc Rich, whose racketeering conviction was pardoned by President Clinton.
PantyFanatic
07-02-2007, 09:23 PM
What
TOTAL
BLAINTENT fucking corruption!
jseal
07-02-2007, 09:36 PM
Nonsense.

If you want to look at corruption, take a look at what happened when Jack Quinn, President Clinton's former White House counsel, took Marc Rich as a client. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, the Anti-Defamation League and, ahem, Democratic fundraiser Denise Rich submitted letters through Quinn to Clinton, requesting a pardon. Denise Rich contributed about $400,000 to the Clinton presidential library. She gave over $1 million to Democratic campaigns in the Clinton era and at least $70,000 to Hillary Clinton's U.S. Senate race as well as $10,000 to the President's legal defense fund. (http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,98756,00.html)

Guess who received a pardon in the last days of the Clinton Administration? Marc Rich, that’s who. Now that’s corruption. This? Poo! Doesn't even show up as a blip on the radar. :)
Lilith
07-02-2007, 09:39 PM
Unless you are Valerie Plame...
jseal
07-02-2007, 09:41 PM
When you run with the Big Dogs ...
Lilith
07-02-2007, 10:02 PM
When you run with the Big Dogs ...be prepared for them to squeal like Little Bitches.
jseal
07-02-2007, 10:08 PM
be prepared for them to squeal like Little Bitches.
... although this line of argument has, of course, nothing to do with the "corruption" referred to above. :)
Lilith
07-02-2007, 10:14 PM
Nonsense.
jseal
07-02-2007, 10:16 PM
:thumb: Touche!
scotzoidman
07-03-2007, 12:57 AM
The nonsense here is that Scooter Libby was the one pegged to fall on his own sword, because he was stupid enough to get caught lying about what he knew & when he knew it. The grave injustice is not that he will not go to jail for his crime, but that the true culprit(s) in this whole matter have already been outed, and none of them will ever be punished
Bush, who long had said that anyone responsible for leaking the agent's identity would be fired from his administration, also had steadfastly refused to comment on the charges against Libby.

I can't help but notice that the Dark Lord who orchestrated the whole affair still resides comfortably in his office at the EEOB. Trust me, if a poor slob like me had revealed the name of a US intelligence operative, I would be under the jail right now. Just another example of how our blessed Commander-in-Chief sees two sets of laws, one for cronies & another for the rest of us...especially if we might disagree with him.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely
dicksbro
07-03-2007, 03:52 AM
PF may be right ... Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is a total disgrace ... it's only too bad his mom took him to full term. Talk about a total jerk.

And, it's true. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely ... like with Clinton.
Oldfart
07-03-2007, 06:58 AM
Why is anyone showing any surprise?

Politicians live in a different world which unfortunately sometimes intersects with ours.
PantyFanatic
07-03-2007, 08:58 AM
Surprise ≠ Shame, Infuriation, Betrayal, Humiliation, Exasperation, Disgust
jseal
07-03-2007, 09:02 AM
Time after time after time.
gekkogecko
07-03-2007, 01:01 PM
But no one, I mean, NO ONE has any right to be surprised by this.
CunningLinguist
07-03-2007, 03:28 PM
Oh man! I was surprised he did it so soon. Does that count?

And to quote the Dead Kennedys

"The law don't mean shit if you got the right friends!"
scotzoidman
07-03-2007, 11:08 PM
It's also just another step in the whole sequence...

The administration was misleading us about Saddam & the WMD's, & anyone who questioned the "facts" being presented was being held as traitors or worse...Joe Wilson publicly called them out, so they retaliated by outing his wife as a CIA agent...when the shit hit the fan, they started the cover-up, & Libby got snared in his own perjury...now that Scooter won't be facing jail time, there's certainly no chance he'll ever give up any info he may have had about the incident...

When some make a big deal of bad deeds committed by a previous president, I like to recite a little rhymelet I saw on a bumper sticker...

"When Clinton lied, nobody died"