Even after Scooter got his “get out of jail free” card from Bush, the case continues to get more interesting. Scott McClellan is set to have his memoirs hit the shelves in April and it includes juicy information like this: “I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in […]
Not a pardon, but rather he commuted the sentence. That means no jail for Scooter. Bush says he felt the punishment was too harsh. So is that saying that lying about a blow job is a worse crime than lying under oath regarding the outing of a CIA agent? It appears so. Bush just handed […]
Scooter’s motion to stay out of jail during appeals has been denied. This will definatley put pressure on Bush to pardon him, as he will be in jail within the next 4-6 weeks.
(image courtesy of Democracy Lost) Once again we have a scandal surrounding the current White House and once again we have the right-wing talking heads out there with towing their typical defense of “well Clinton did it”. This time the excuse is being applied to the U.S.A. purge. A lot of Bush apologists are out […]
CNN just reported that White House spokesperson, Dana Perino, was asked about Harry Reid’s statement. She quickly turned it around to say that the “Democrats will use this for politics”. I guess it was fine and dandy for the Republicans to use a blow job for politics in the Clinton years, but when it comes […]
Like everyone else being investigated for their dealings with Abramoff, Bob Ney is no different. He has taken the same stance of “not remembering” key events like this one: Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Ney didn’t recall meeting with members of the Tigua tribe of Texas when Senate investigators questioned him during a probe of rogue […]
This reminds me of Bush sending his staff to their ethics training last year, following the indictment of Scooter: A top US commander in Iraq has ordered combat troops to be trained to abide by moral and ethical standards on the battlefield. The move is an apparent reference to allegations Marines killed civilians last year. […]
So where is Scooter’s defense trying to go? This could give us some insight: A federal judge dealt a setback to I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s defense in the CIA leak case yesterday, telling the former vice presidential aide’s attorneys that he is likely to deny their request for a vast trove of government documents. At […]
Bush has admitted to the declassification of parts of the pre-war intelligence: Bush acknowledges declassifying Iraq intelligence President George W. Bush acknowledged on Monday he ordered the declassification of parts of a prewar intelligence report on Iraq to respond to critics. But Bush said he could not comment on an assertion that he authorized Vice […]
Fitzgerald is presenting new information to the grand jury today. Special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald appeared this morning to present information to a new grand jury in the CIA leak investigation. Fitzgerald has been probing for two years what role senior Bush administration officials have played in leaking a CIA operative name to the media […]