Should we bother protesting to our reprsentatives about the Scooter Libby pardon?

Question

Or would that be another exercise in futility, as my representative is a nutjob? I wonder how Valerie Plame feels about this, as it was her life put at risk?

It sure is amazing how some people always turn what Bush does into some kind of bash against Clinton...if you read my question again, I said nothing about Clinton...but some people seem to have some kind of obsession about him.

Answer 1

Paris went back to jail .
Maybe its time the people said enough . Its time to hold people accountable for their actions .
If Libby cooperates and names names then we could cut him some slack but we need to get to the bottom of the investigation .

Answer 2

Since Scooter Libby had NOTHING to do with outing Valerie Plame I would say yes it would be an exercise in futility.

Answer 3

Presidental pardon's cannot be reversed by congress. So quit wasting your breath. Here are some famous of Clinton's famous pardons:

In 1983, Marc Rich was charged with conducting the largest tax evasion scheme in U.S. history. He fled to Switzerland to avoid trial and has avoided extradition ever since. Over the following seventeen years, Marc Rich’s ex-wife, Denise, contributed over $1 million dollars to the Democratic Party and $450,000 to Clinton’s presidential library in Little Rock. In addition, she pledged to raise $1 million for the library when she spoke with Bill Clinton during one of her several calls. However, these donations alone could not merit a pardon. Clinton rationalized the pardon on the fact that Marc Rich’s guilt lay in the importation of Iraqi oil, thus a pardon would promote the peace process in the Middle East

Bill Clinton pardoned sixteen members of the FALN organization. These men belonged to a Puerto Rican freedom terrorist group, which was responsible for planting over 130 bombs in public places in the U.S. They killed six people and injured seventy.

http://www.providence.edu/polisci/students/clinton_pardons/high_profile.html

So Hillary's comments last night are like the pot calling the kettle black.


EDIT - No obsession with Clinton. Just showing both sides of the coin so that people can make their own decision on this issue. Valerie Plame was not under cover, nor was her life put in jeapordy. Bush basically took away the jail time, a $250,000 fine is quite a bit of money in my world. Don't know about you, but I would have to work for more than 25 years to pay that one off. Isn't that punishment enough?

Answer 4

Bush did not pardon Libby, but did reduce his sentence to throw a bone to his party. It doesn't really impact the people that don't approve of him (a large majority of America) and is a weak attempt to get some approval from the conservatives.
However, after the failed immigration bill, this move will not help him much in his party.

I say don't waste your time with this. There are much bigger issues with this administration that our country should be concerned with.

Answer 5

The act of outing a active CIA agent is treason. That act of law breaking carries the death penalty. Why do you think Cheney will not allow Congress to have oversight of National Security records in Cheney's office?? Protesting with any representative in Congress is a waste of time. We need to vote them all out of work. For the past 6 years Congress has been useless..

Answer 6

If you live in New York, yes you should holler loud and long at your Junior Senator about this one. As she said yesterday, its "cronyism". And we can't have cronyism at the White House level, can we?

As far as Valerie Plame is concerned, she is now set for life with book deals, appearances on talk shows and the inevitable spread in Penthouse.

Answer 7

You couldn't do anything to change it. Bush has a constitutional right to do what he did. Bush followed the law, and Scooter Libby is now a free man.

Answer 8

I think it is good to protest this to our Representatives and let them know what you think about the bad job that is being done in Washington. President Bush should be ashamed of himself to let someone off of their crime. I guess he is sending the wrong message to the troops. Something that he is so good at saying to America. He is such a piece of crap.

Answer 9

Why? That was the First thing in awhile Bush did right. He saved one person from being the scrap goat for others. I say let it drop, and start spending time on other issue's that matter.

Answer 10

There should be so many calls, the Capitol Hill telephone lines are swamped. And write a letter to your local newspaper telling them what you think. Tell all your friends and acquaintances to do the same. You do know what will happen if you do nothing, don't you? That's right - nothing.