Seems like there is a ton of "preferential" justice being passed around if you are famous.
Scooter Libby has not been given a pardon, but it is in the air.
Regardless of political affiliation, what is your opinion on Libby's crime and the possibility of him being pardoned?
Would you and I be given as flimsy of a sentence as he has for pugery?
2007-06-14 08:35:13 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Libby was convicted of breaking the law and deserves to be punished for the crime in the same manner as any other lawbreaker guilty of the same crime. {Lying after taking an oath not to lie, to a federal judge}
However, in the service of government there's what's known as, "The Chain of Command".
On any sensitive issue a higher up is always notified. Concerning the secretive CIA We the People are not allowed to know what they're doing for security reasons.
Libby could be taking the fall for someone higher up in the chain of command.
Congress is the government body that investigates governmental wrong doing.......Imo, it is their duty to investigate to see if anyone who outranked Libby was involved.
However, American politics are so dirty now that no elected official dare take the risk of being black-balled publicly by another of his own kind.
2007-06-14 09:19:09 · answer #1 · answered by beesting 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Libby allegedly obstructed and lied to a grand jury in an investigation that failed to either find any wrongdoing OR return any indictments save his. It doesn't make any sense. How can you be convicted of perjury in an instance where NO crime was comitted?
I would like to think he'll be pardoned, but I have a feeling Bush will let him go to prison...
drixnot - Libby didn't do anything wrong, at least not in regards to mrs cia centerfold valerie plame... Lol a cover agent with a CIA license plate sticker...
2007-06-14 08:45:24 · answer #2 · answered by trc_6111 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
His sentence is 2.5 years, that's a very light sentence for what was done.
Blowing the cover of someone doing such high level investigations for the safety of our country is a big deal to me. And impeding the investigation of how and who, is just as big a deal.
To me a pardon would just prove to many how deeply involved Cheney and Bush were in this.
2007-06-14 08:44:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most importantly is that Scooter hasn't done anything
wrong to begin with. This is a trumped up accusation
by liberals (they've tried to do this to almost all of Bush's
cabinet members, you know). He wasn't the one who
came out with Flame's name and made it public, so why
should he go to jail? So, definitely in this case, I would say
he does not deserve a sentence, and he does deserve a
pardon.Come on, let's be fair. There's just no proof he is
guilty.
2007-06-14 08:41:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Isn't his sentence about 6 months? I'm not 100% about that, but I think that's about right.
EDIT: 2.5 years seems a little long for me. He should have just plead the 5th.
2007-06-14 08:38:51 · answer #5 · answered by mikehunt29 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋