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Originally Posted by reconmike
Host, let me surmise as to the way I see the whole Plame affair, from what I have read, Plame was outed, someone's head was going to roll, Libby did the best the buck stops here, taking one for the team, even though he didn't out Plame, Amritage did.
He was convicted of obstruction, sentenced to 2.5 yrs even though he didnt out Plame.
He appealed his bail was denied, and then has his sentence commuted.
Did I sum up what I read correctly? Is it factually correct?
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...mike, the irony is that your "take" is the way Libby approached his perjury and obstruction. If he could make it seem as if he was covering up...or couldn't recall, or was mistaken about who he heard about Plame's identity from....and who he then told....he could convince supporters....folks like you, mike....that the investigation was not about the executive branch's sensitivity to the controversy of who forged the "evidence" that Iraq was attempting to purchase yellow cake uranium from niger....not about the administration's political revenge that included at least Cheney...and maybe higher...authorizing the leaking of Plame's name, and affiliation with the CIA, during a time of war...when she was working,as Cheney knew....in a covert status in a managerial role, analyzing the WMD threat....
....and the difference between you and I, mike....is that I....as special counsel Fitzgerald did....want to know if Cheney or Bush did...or did not.... do those illegal and inexcusable things....during a time of war that they hyped as an excuse to rape our constitutional protections....
...and you, mike....regard the questions as none of the business of Fitzgerald's investigation....let alone any of my business....to know, and you, yourself, either feign disinterest, or truly have no interest in knowing. I think that your years in the Corps reinforced an acceptance of only needing to know what was required to do your job....
my "job" is to be a citizen in the U.S., taking an active interest in what the officials who serve me, are "up to"......
.....and, you refer to me as partisan?