why that was nice

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

this guy is a jeanius

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

he is so fukkin helpful

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

the 9 volts killed me.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was convicted Tuesday of lying and obstructing an investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's identity.

Libby is the highest-ranking White House official to be convicted of a felony since the Iran-Contra scandal of the mid-1980s. The conviction focused renewed attention on the Bush administration's much-criticized handling of weapons of mass destruction intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war.

The verdict culminated a nearly four-year investigation into how CIA official Valerie Plame's name was leaked to reporters in 2003. The trial revealed how top members of the Bush administration were eager to discredit Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who accused the administration of doctoring prewar intelligence on Iraq.

Libby, who was once Cheney's most trusted adviser and an assistant to Bush, was expressionless as the jury verdict was announced on the 10th day of deliberations. His wife choked out a sob and sank her head.

He faces up to 30 years in prison when he is sentenced June 5 but under federal sentencing guidelines is likely to face far less. Defense attorneys immediately promised to ask for a new trial or appeal the conviction.

"We have every confidence Mr. Libby ultimately will be vindicated," defense attorney Theodore Wells told a throng of reporters. "We believe Mr. Libby is totally innocent and that he didn't do anything wrong."

Libby did not speak to reporters.

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, who has led the leak investigation, said no additional charges would be filed. That means nobody will be charged with the leak and Libby, who was not the source for the original column outing Plame, will be the only one to face trial.

"The results are actually sad," Fitzgerald said. "It's sad that we had a situation where a high-level official person who worked in the office of the vice president obstructed justice and lied under oath. We wish that it had not happened, but it did."

White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino said Bush watched news of the verdict on TV in the Oval Office. Perino said the president respected the jury's verdict but "was saddened for Scooter Libby and his family."

Perino said "I would not agree" with any characterization of the verdict as embarrassing for the White House.

"I think that any administration that has to go through a prolonged news story that is unpleasant and one that is difficult — when you're under the constraints and the policy of not commenting on an ongoing criminal matter — that can be very frustrating," she said.

Libby was convicted of one count of obstruction, two counts of perjury and one count of lying to the FBI about how he learned Plame's identity and whom he told. Prosecutors said he learned about Plame from Cheney and others, discussed her name with reporters and, fearing prosecution, made up a story to make those discussions seem innocuous.

Libby said he told investigators his honest recollections and blamed any misstatements on a faulty memory. He was acquitted of one count of lying to the FBI about his conversation with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper.

One juror who spoke to reporters outside court said the jury had 34 poster-size pages filled with information they distilled from the trial testimony. They discerned that Libby was told about Plame at least nine times and they didn't buy the argument that he forgot all about it.

"Even if he forgot that someone told him about Mrs. Wilson, who had told him, it seemed very unlikely he would not have remembered about Mrs. Wilson," the juror, Denis Collins, said.

Collins, a former Washington Post reporter, said jurors wanted to hear from others involved in the case, including Bush political adviser Karl Rove, who was one of two sources for the original leak. Defense attorneys originally said both Libby and Cheney would be witnesses and Rove was on the potential witness list.

"I will say there was a tremendous amount of sympathy for Mr. Libby on the jury. It was said a number of times, 'What are we doing with this guy here? Where's Rove? Where are these other guys?' " Collins said. "I'm not saying we didn't think Mr. Libby was guilty of the things we found him guilty of. It seemed like he was, as Mr. Wells put it, he was the fall guy."

Reaction to the conviction on Capitol Hill was swift. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (news, bio, voting record) welcomed the jury's verdict and called on Bush to pledge not to pardon Libby. Before the trial began, the Justice Department said it had no pardon file active for Libby.

"It's about time someone in the Bush Administration has been held accountable for the campaign to manipulate intelligence and discredit war critics," Reid said.

Perino would not discuss Reid's pardon concerns.

Wilson and Plame have sued Libby, Cheney and several other administration officials in federal court. Attorneys at the liberal watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, which brought the lawsuit, praised the conviction and Fitzgerald's team.

"Their prosecution of a senior White House official illustrates that we are a nation of laws and that no man is above the law," attorneys said in a prepared statement.

U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton ordered a pre-sentencing report be completed by May 15. Judges use such reports to help determine sentences. Libby will be allowed to remain free while awaiting sentencing.

Not that surprising, but boy it feels great!!

PWNED!

I hope that cucksocker gets 30 years!

 

[SyKo13 5,000+ posts]

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[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

he will get a presidential pardon before he sees the inside of a jail cell.

But at least it will go down in the history books that way.

Guilty and accepting of a corrupt pardon.

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[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

they already lost the house in 06.

Everyone already knows bush is a fuk up.. slipping scooter a pardon at the end of his term wouldn't cost the party anything. They really cant loose anymore from the actions of bush.

They will probably retain the presidency because giuliani will kill the brother or the bish.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

(AP) BEDFORD, Ind. Eric Johnson told his ex-wife, "You're not going to get her," shortly before the small plane he was piloting with his 8-year-old daughter crashed into his former mother-in-law's house, killing them both.

The mother-in-law, Vivian Pace, wasn't injured and told reporters outside her damaged home Tuesday about the phone call.

She said her daughter, Beth Johnson, was worried after young Emily didn't show up for school after a weekend vacation with her father. She finally reached Eric Johnson by cell phone shortly before the crash.

"I've got her, and you're not going to get her," he told her, according to Pace.

Johnson, a student pilot who had soloed before, had taken off in a leased, single-engine Cessna from a southern Indiana airport near Bloomington on Monday morning. Less than two hours later, officials said, the plane smashed into a wall of Pace's home.

Andrew Todd Fox of the National Transportation Safety Board declined to say if Johnson, 47, said anything over the plane's radio before the crash. The airport has no controller on duty, so no recording was available of any communication, he said.

Pace believes the crash was deliberate.

"That was the only way he could hurt Beth. That was the only way he could get to her," she said.

State and Bedford police were treating the case as a ******* and homicide, State Police 1st Sgt. Dave Bursten said. He said they had yet to find any notes indicating Johnson's intentions with the flight, but the fact that the house was his ex-wife's mother's home raised serious questions.

"All of those things together lead us in the direction that this was done intentionally," Bursten said Tuesday.

The couple had divorced in November after 12 years of marriage, Pace said.

Beth Johnson went to the Bedford Police Department the morning of the crash to file a missing person report, police Maj. Dennis Parsley said Tuesday.

She gave officers no indication of any threats against Emily, Parsley said, and told police that her ex-husband, a property manager for the state Department of Natural Resources, had recently taken the girl to Cancun for a few days of vacation.

"(Emily) was to spend the weekend with dad, and dad was supposed to bring her to school Monday morning," Parsley said.

Fox said Tuesday that investigators were looking at whether the plane was functioning properly and hoped to have a preliminary report within a week.

At Parkview Primary School in Bedford, where Emily was a first-grader, counselors were called in to help the students, Principal Sari Wood said Tuesday.

"We're all grieving over this," Wood said. She described Emily as a "dear little girl" who "got a kick out of things and enjoyed life."

"She just was one of those really friendly, really open little kids," Wood said.

(© 2007 The Associated Press.

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[Lil Poot 5,000+ posts]

cool. i'm sure the the rest of the corrupt politicians will soon follow.

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[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

Check out my sweet new pipe. Im going places in life. W0wz0mg!! im cool.

 

[Slammed 5,000+ posts]

oh snaps!

 

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

thread seems familiar

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

I BET you are!

nG

 

[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

like i said

drugs = for losers

but hey, cant go wrong with crack?

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

im proud.

Smoke rawks every day.