Jail time that is. And a $250,000 fine to boot:
Former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Tuesday was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his role in hopes of avoiding prison in the CIA leak case.
Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, is the highest-ranking official convicted of a crime since the Iran Contra affair.
“When you transgress the law, there are consequences,” U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton told Libby.
Consequences for breaking the law? What a concept! By the way, when does the Scooter Libby Pardon Watch start?
Am I right that there is no parole system for federal crimes and that he will have to serve almost all of this sentence? Someone told me he might get off 10-15% for good behavior, but that is it.
30 months..for violating putting our country at risk, they should sent him to Gitmo.
No, Gitmo is only for those who have no reason to be incarcerated.
but couldn’t Libby be named an “enemy combatant” and be put in the Naval Brig???
The day he was indicted.
Bet on it.
“Keep your fucking mouth shut and you won’t do hard time. Just until tyhe fuss dies down. And in a country club prison. Then…you’re OUTTA there!!!”
I mean…really, folks.
When does Bush step down?
Jan., 2009?
Please.
” A buck and a half? Yez kin do it standing on yer head!!! Write a fucking BOOK, ya yutz!!!”
Watch.
AG
Write a fucking BOOK, ya yutz!!!”
I was JUST thinking the same thing. Glad he’s going, but yeah–he can catch up on his reading, lose weight, find Jesus AND write a book all about it to be sold in bulk to Heritage, AEI and the 700 Club.
Bill Clinton’s list of last-minute pardons?
Here ’tis.
Nota bene
The names:
Henry Cisneros (former HUD Secretary
John Deutch (former Director of Central Intelligence Agency)
Melvin J. Reynolds – Democratic Congressman from Illinois – bank fraud and obstruction of justice
Susan H. McDougal
Dorothy Rivers – lead official in Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, plead guilty to theft of 1.2 million dollars in federal grant money
Roger Clinton, Jr. (half-brother of President Bill Clinton)
Samuel Loring Morison
Marc Rich – tax evasion fugitive + Pincus Green (1936 – ) an oil and gas commodities trader whose net worth is estimated by Forbes magazine at $1.2 billion USD. Green fled the United States in 1983, along with partner Marc Rich, after being indicted by U.S. Attorney and future mayor of New York City Rudolph Giuliani, on charges of tax evasion and illegal trading with Iran
Fife Symington III – former Arizona governor
Christopher “Chris” Wade was a former Whitewater real estate broker.
It ain’t just “who ya know”. folkses.
It is also what you know but ain’t sayin’.
In BOTH gangs.
Bet on it.
AG
James Carville Wrote Letter for Libby
But I have a little surprise for you. He may not have anticipated that his letter would become public, but none other than Corporal Cueball, Mr. James Carville himself, urged the Judge to consider “what further justice would be served by additional devastation to [Libby’s family] and the many other children that love Scooter.”
Here’s the letter, on Mary Matalin’s stationary.
Need any more evidence?
I don’t.
One gang, two factions.
The DemocRatpublican scam.
Wanna hear a GOOD one!!!???
No WONDER they call him “Scooter”!!!
HAR har har har har har har!!!
What’s that?
You say when it YOUR turn you don’t WANT to go to a country club joint?
You say you want a cellmate who looks like like Sherrif Buford D. Pusser, is doing life for gang rape and goes by the name of BUBBA!!!???
HAR har har har har har har har har har har har har har!!!
No WONDER I keep you around, you chubby, weak little fuck!!!
HAR har har har har har har har har har har har har har!!!
You SLAY me!!!
Yup.
There ’tis.
Life in the fast lane.
DC version.
Lemme OUTTA here!!!
AG
Pardon watch? Who needs to watch?
“If I drop a hammer on a high-gravity planet I do not need to see it hit the ground to know that it has, in fact, fallen.”
Of COURSE Libby gets a pardon, as soon as the next blonde bimbo blowup distracts the cameras – and it’s probably already written and on file in the warden’s office so the guards know not to bother him. After all, betraying your country for political gain is only a crime if you’re a liberal. IOKIYAR.
looks like the money’s pretty evenly split between before 31dec07, and end of term jan09…there’s a market for everything, eh.
l think it’ll be sooner rather than later….probably around christmas
dub’ll pull out his christian forgiveness card and, at a minimum, commute the sentence to time served…since it appears, Reggie ain’t buying the stay-out-of-jail card pending appeals:
To err is human, to forgive divine… Alexander Pope
it’s a done deal…just a matter of timing.
lTMF’sA
clik images for info
NYT’s:
Mmmhmmm. Its message is the same as shrub’s was praising Gonzales’ testimony. Mind-boggling to folks with sense; perfect praise from criminals lauding the fact that their underlings didn’t snitch.
up in the air and hollered “YES” “YES”!???