Possible presidential pardon? Trying to delay going into jail/prison. Requesting leniency and just might get it? Sounds like someone isn't quite ready to do the time for the crime here.
Either way, if this guy has been caught, tried, found guilty he should go directly to jail, do not pass go and do not collect $200,000... (we're talking big government here okay?). But no he's walking around trying to find ways to get out of going to prison... what is the message here?
The message to the young people who (might be interested enough) to watch this going on, I wasn't when Liddy was being tried for Watergate 35 years ago but hey, all I know now is that the guy did go to prison and he did serve his time and he's now a rich man. So why can't this guy?
What exactly is American Justice and to whom does it apply? Whom does it NOT apply to?
What's the message does this send? Become a politician, commit a crime and you just MIGHT get off? If Bush does sign a pardon then they might as well throw the whole justice system into the joke box. Libby (funny how it sounds like a guy some 35 years ago huh?) should've thought about the consequences before he did what he done. But of course he probably thought he'd get away with it or not get caught or that being the VP's Chief of Staff would grant him immunity.Libby moves to delay prison term
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070606/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak_trial
By MATT APUZZO and PETE YOST, Associated Press Writers 10 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Attorneys for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby are preparing a last-ditch effort to delay the former White House aide's 2 1/2-year prison sentence, even as President Bush declined to say Wednesday whether he was considering a pardon.
Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was sentenced Tuesday for lying and obstructing the CIA leak investigation. He became the highest-ranking White House official sentenced to prison since the Iran-Contra affair.
He requested leniency but a federal judge said he would not reward someone who hindered the investigation into the exposure of a CIA operative,
Valerie Plame. Her husband had accused the administration of twisting intelligence to justify the Iraq war.
"Mr. Libby failed to meet the bar. For whatever reason, he got off course," said U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton, adding that the evidence of Libby's guilt was overwhelming.
Either way, if this guy has been caught, tried, found guilty he should go directly to jail, do not pass go and do not collect $200,000... (we're talking big government here okay?). But no he's walking around trying to find ways to get out of going to prison... what is the message here?
The message to the young people who (might be interested enough) to watch this going on, I wasn't when Liddy was being tried for Watergate 35 years ago but hey, all I know now is that the guy did go to prison and he did serve his time and he's now a rich man. So why can't this guy?
What exactly is American Justice and to whom does it apply? Whom does it NOT apply to?