What is the White House trying to insinuate having Libby's mortal sins erased by a mere $250,000 fine?

Question

"Libby's friends and supporters have raised more than $5 million to cover legal fees and were continuing to raise money " so as to allow Libby to be hurt only with $250,000 fine? Is American Leadership suggesting that it's okay to betray this nation as long as one has rich friends and supporters and that money erases all crimes? Are the powerful rich in America suggesting that the American Public should uphold the reasoning that only friends of the wealthy have a right to commit crimes and still walk the streets?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070706/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak_libby

What has happened to real moral values in America? aawe are heading to the filthy old plantation days where the rich and the powerful could commit crimes without having to be punished for them.

Answer 1

It's not "the white house" it's GWB good ol buddy and he's paying with oil money he probably got from GWB.

Answer 2

It's just another immoral cover up for the Republican cover up for another law broken, another Jury and Judge made look like kindergarten kids. They think all this funny when 60 year old man is called Scooter and looks like Scooter , talks like a Scooter, walks like a Scooter, you can bet it is a Scooter. Do you get my drift.
No, Bill Clinton or any thing human can't be worst than George Bush. Every time if you notice , anything is done dirty by the Republican Party , here they come blaming Bill Clinton
Not one person in the Republican party could make themselves no matter how hard they try, be another Great President like Bill Clinton,. He'll be back in 2008, so come on get ready to. WHINE, WHINE, WHINE. WHEW!!! What a bunch of nothngs that this Republican Party has set forth.

Answer 3

The 250,000 was set by the court not the white house. The president is not even in the same ball park as the last one on excusing criminal behavior. One versus 144 by Clinton. Where was the outrage then ? Sure wish you liberals would find some fault in your own instead of blaming every thing in the world on George Bush. He beat you twice and he can't run again. Get over it .

Answer 4

When Libby is pardoned, even the $250K fine will be returned to whoever issued the cashier's check.

The paying of the fine was a symbolic, empty gesture. Most of America's political elite are disciples of Leo Strauss, who left post WW II Germany to become a University of Chicago professor and mentored Adolf Hitler.

Answer 5

How about Bill Clinton granting commutations to

Melvin J. Reynolds - Democratic Congressman from Illinois - bank fraud and obstruction of justice

Dorothy Rivers - lead official in Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, plead guilty to theft of 1.2 million dollars in federal grant money

And pardons to

Bernice Ruth Altschul (1992 money laundering conspiracy)
William Sterling Anderson (1987 defraudment of a financial institution, false statements to a financial institution, wire fraud)
Mansour Azizkhani (1984 false statements in bank loan applications)
William Arthur Borders Jr. (Conspiracy to corruptly solicit and accept money in return for influencing the official acts of a federal district court judge (Alcee L. Hastings), and to defraud the United States in connection with the performance of lawful government functions; corruptly influencing, obstructing, impeding and endeavoring to influence, obstruct and impede the due administration of justice, and aiding and abetting therein; traveling interstate with intent to commit bribery)

Henry Cisneros (former HUD Secretary)
Roger Clinton, Jr. (half-brother of President Bill Clinton)
John Deutch (former Director of Central Intelligence Agency)
Dan Rostenkowski - Former Democratic Congressman convicted in the Congressional Post Office Scandal
Fife Symington III - former Arizona governor

What has happened to real moral values in America?
are we are heading to the filthy old plantation days where the rich and the powerful could commit crimes without having to be punished for them. (That is your Statement)
So perhaps before you start whinnying about Bush, go
ask this question of Bill Clinton. You will get the same
answer from both of them.

It is within the Presidents rights to pardon whomever he
feels is deserving of it.

Answer 6

The amount of the fine was set by the court. The pardons by Bill Clinton hurt this country far more than any pardon by GWB.

Answer 7

You aren't going to like hearing that if his conviction is overturned on Appeal (which is likely) he gets the money back.

But take heart, he still has to pay his lawyers.