Libby indicted.Follow

Mad Libby?

or is that short for libya?

If you are talking about Libby Weaver from Fox 31 news at 9 o'clock in colorado, then I attest your jest. She is the finest women in news casting.

You rock Libby keep up the good work and I'll keep *************

Uh oh, time for gabji to turn up the power on his Bullsh[b][/b]it-O-Matic.

Full speed ahead, capn' G.

I caught this on the news while at lunch, and was disappointed. Scooter Libby got indicted on five counts:

- 1x obstruction of justice
- 2x perjury, for lying to the grand jury
- 2x 'making false statements', for lying to the FBI

Also notable is what he didn't get indicted for:

- 0x revealing the name of an undercover CIA operative

..which was the whole focus of the investigation and the grand jury itself, right? And if that's the case, what justice was Libby obstructing, exactly?

This week has been such a letdown. First it was 'indictments by Wednesday', then 'maybe Thursday', now 'definitely Friday, because our grand jury is expiring today, so we gotta indict someone for something' -- and it isn't even the actual potential crime the media has been frenzied on all month. Disappointing.


Sharks and whales sometimes have remoras attached, which feed upon the particulate matter left as a course of the larger animals activities.

Our political circus in the US is a case where the remora is actually larger than the shark it's attached to.

I might work 15 minutes from your parents house; I'm an hour from home at the moment.

Want me to swing by and introduce myself? "Your child and I don't really know each other, but he told me where you live."

Would they shoot at me?

Nah, billing is the home addy. I'm over outside Frederick, MD at the moment; it's a tad more rural here than it is on the I95 corridor.

Cool deal, interesting coincidence. I think I qualify for the `I (heart) voyueristic admins` T-shirt now. ^^

I think the point was that someone blew her cover just prior to that two-page spread in Time, where she was photographed with her husband (amusingly, with her wearing a kerchief and sunglasses, all spy-like).

The thing that irks me is that they did this investigation and called up a grand jury to not charge anybody with the leak.

You bring charges that you can prove.

and he has resigned (hope i spelled that right)

the guy on the TV talking about this situation was just asked if it makes a differance if he is a high level gov. official or not and his answere was "if we just walk away and do not press charges of obstruciton of justice and purgery then why should just walk away from our jobs"

if that is true, then why was Burger not indited for the same thing? he lied under oath, he obstructied justice, and did worse the libby by stealing and destroying top secrit documents that pertain to an inditement on former pres. clinton.

hello, i rate that higher then revealing a CIA operative, and that to me is extreemly bad and pushing high treason.

Touché.




Ayup, but that and my billing info are two separate things. :) It's okay, though - curiosity must sometimes be satisfied. I've been an admin for a decade myself and know how the whole absolute power deal works over time.

It's friday. Accept my light teasing with warmest regards. ;)

In other words. There were two statements he made to the grand jury that didn't exactly match those made to the FBI, so we charge him with perjury for the ones said to the grand jury and making false statements for those said to the FBI. Assumption being that since they don't match, one of each set must be a lie, so we'll get him on something.

The obstruction charge is there becuase.. well... the investigation had to spend time asking Libby all those questions and then more time comparing them to other answers and finding the 2 discrepancies. And that obstructed their overall goal somehow...


Jokes aside. Looks like I've been right on the money so far. Who wants to take bets that none of these charges hold up and he's ultimately aquitted? Any takers? I'm 2 for 2 on this so far...

It'd be a sucker's bet. Even were Libby convicted at trial (acting as a patsy to keep the slate clean for the higher ups) his conviction would only last until Bush's final days in office. Pardoning allies is a time honored tradition in Washington.