Shortly after the announcement that Pres. Bush commuted the Scooter Libney, Amb. Joseph Wilson (the husband of the cia operative and opponent of the status of Iraq's capabilities of WMD that was leaked by Libney) was interviewed by CNN and he called Libney a traitor. Of coarse, that is a very serious charge. Do you agree or not? Why or why not is he a traitor? And feel free to comment on the commuting (which isn't a full pardon).
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=49750&cl=3243329&ch=61492&src=news
2007-07-03 15:18:35 · 12 answers · asked by shrugger 4 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
my bad......Libby.
2007-07-03 15:22:41 · update #1
the traitor quote is the last sentence of the interview on the link.
2007-07-03 15:32:32 · update #2
He was part of network of people who revealed Plame's identity. If Libby is traitor I think that makes entire VP office the traitor. That's pretty serous charge.
2007-07-03 18:48:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
How can you expose an agent who hasn't been active for over 5 years, who commutes to Langley every day, and whose line of work is common knowledge among the DC cocktail party circuit? You can't leak something that's not really secret. The only crime committed by Libby was misleading testimony to the grand jury, and wasn't that even about something different? If this qualifies as treason, then Prez-emeritus Clinton has confessed the same thing.
No, Sandy Berger's escapades with classified material at the national archives deserved far more media (and judicial) scrutiny than Libby's lie. But that story was buried faster than a hound hiding a steak bone, by both the news media and Congress. That's where I smell treason...
2007-07-03 17:57:04 · answer #2 · answered by Ezekiel 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I heard that same interview and I didn't hear Wilson directly call Libby a traitor. If he did, I do not believe Libby is a traitor, but he is a convicted criminal and should serve his sentence like most other convicted criminals. If anyone is a traitor, it is Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Pearle, Limbaugh, and the entire Fox news organization. These people are ruining our great country. They are all war criminals. The neo-cons and religious right have put America on a downward spiral from which it cannot recover. Johnson lied to get us into Viet Nam and over 50,000 servicemen paid with their lives, plus hundreds of thousands of others, Nixon, the liar and crook, Reagan and Iran Contra, and Clinton the liar. But all of them together do not approach Bush - he is like an ignorant, stubborn, thick-headed, egotistical, sociopath. He is dangerous indeed. He has accelerated the demise of America.
2007-07-03 15:29:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
How does this have something to do with being a traitor, look up the regulation on being a traitor. additionally do you recognize each and every president interior the final 40 years has pardoned felons so are all of them traitors then.
2016-12-09 00:01:47 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, he exposed a government agent for political reasons. Hes lucky that his party is in power or he would be doing the time. I think history will show "Scooter" in a pretty bad light. But to answer your question? Traitor? Probably not in the true sense of the word, Corrupt? Definitely so.
2007-07-03 15:29:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mr. Libby is definitely not a traitor. I believe he is an honest man and a loyal Bush administration employee who did exactly what Bush and Cheney directed him to do; lie to congress. One of them should be serving his term.
In the late 1970s I met Dwight Chapin. He was convicted of lying to a grand jury investigating the infamous Watergate scandal and served a prison sentence. His title at that time was Special Assistant to President Nixon. I met him after he had served his sentence and I found him to be a bright and ethical, really likable young man. I think he, like Libby, was caught in the administration's power vice. When the President of the United States wants you to do something, you do it.
2007-07-03 15:40:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The CIA "agent" he supposedly "outed" was a bloody *Secretary*! for crying out loud! And her husband would go around introducing her as his CIA wife!
Personally... I don't think he did it. And the sentence was commuted, not pardoned... the only thing he was spared was the actual jail time. Gee, terrible thing to keep an old man who was probably innocent anyway out of jail. He's still on probation, still has to pay fines, and still has a record.
No I don't think he's a traitor. I think he's a scapegoat... someone to fuss at for spilling a secret, that wasn't a secret.
2007-07-03 21:44:16 · answer #7 · answered by MotherBear1975 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Scooter Libbey was deeply involved in the office of Vice-President Dick Cheney, the first vice-president ever to commit treason against the U.S. and crimes against humanity. Therefore, Libbey is a traitor.
2007-07-03 15:24:10 · answer #8 · answered by worldinspector 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Cheney is the traitor, Libby is the fall-guy, and not much of a fall now that he's been freed.
2007-07-03 15:27:45 · answer #9 · answered by HyperDog 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
That term is often used rather loosely. What he did was illegal and wrong but not traitorous.
2007-07-03 16:32:08 · answer #10 · answered by Caninelegion 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋