Who knew when Bush said "anyone involved in Plame outing will be dealt with", meant commuting the sentence?

Question

Bush Sr once call people like Libby "insidious traitors"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvu3Ecnvd74

Answer 1

I knew that's what it meant. Not that hard to figure out that the administration would dodge the investigation in any way possible and throw a dispensible, retirement-ready member out tot he dogs and then pardon him. I figured that's what would happen all along.

Answer 2

Break out a source for your quote (the GW quote). I don't think he said that.
Second, you'll have to ask the "special prosecutor" why the person that leaked Plame's name wasn't prosecuted. The prosecutor KNEW within days of opening the investigation who had leaked Plame's name, yet he continued after Libby. Why was this? Could it be that if he went after Richard Armitage, he couldn't try to tie the entire thing to Karl Rove and VP Cheney? With all the uproar about outing a CIA "covert operative", one would think that the person who actually did the "outing" would be prosecuted. Why is this so hard for you to understand? This was simply a "witch hunt" to get Rove and Cheney. How else do you explain that the person that outed Valerie Plame was never charged let alone prosecuted. Keep in mind that Armitage was Undersecretary of State, under Sec State Powell, neither of which are Bush fans or supporters of the war.

Answer 3

Don't you even care about the facts? First, there never was a basis for an outing because she wasn't covert. Even so, we know that it was Armitage, so did Fitzgerald before he even started questioning people like Libby. Obviously, there was never any guilt found with Libby involving a Plame outing, his "crime" only had to do with the investigation process.

Answer 4

He handled the outing of Plame in much the same way as he 'handled' the capture of Osama bin Laden...

A mere two days after telling the nation "No matter how long it takes, America will find you", Bush not only knew bin Laden was in Pakistan but had decided NOT to go after him! In the same time-frame that Bush was citing WMDs as justification to invade Iraq, a CIA agent, whose job was to track down missing nukes (WMDs), had her identity leaked to the press. There's a pattern here, Bush handled the issue of the CIA leaks in much the same way as the hunt for bin Laden. He went from "they would be dealt with" to "it's water under the bridge".

Within a week of Rove's resignation, journalist Mark Cooper revealed on "Meet the Press" that Rove was his source for Plame's identity.
-- Time To 'Move On,' Bush Says
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/politics/13670689/detail.html
-- Matt Cooper: Rove Leaked Plame's Identity to Me
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082007A.shtml

Answer 5

So we have run out of timely questions and have to rehash the Plame fiasco again....

To hear the liberal media you would have thought she was so covert that even the highest escholon of government didn't know of her existence.....

Please, she has gotten much more mileage out of her "outing" than her career would have ever taken her...

And I would try and remember all the crooks in bed with the Clintons, before I started throwing the "commuted sentence" stones.

Answer 6

Do a search on Richard Armitage and leave the "half truths" to the rookies

Answer 7

Where is Richard Armitage? Why haven't they brought charges against him. Tell the truth, you will feel much better and won't be laughed at quite so much.

Answer 8

Politicians protect their own, the bush's did it, Clinton did it, Reagan did, everyone does it. It is hypocritical and wrong, but it isn't just bush.

Answer 9

It was all just a political ruse/boondoggle by the dem.s You're still talking about it, so clearly, it worked.

Answer 10

You own defeat