(2007-03-07) — President George Bush put an end to rampant speculation among journalists and pundits today, by pardoning the man at the center of the CIA leak investigation — former ambassador Joseph Wilson.
Mr. Wilson, who falsely claimed to have debunked evidence that Iraq sought uranium from Niger, then lied about who sent him to Niger and about the covert status of his wife, Valerie Plame, is currently free pending indictment by a grand jury which has not been empaneled.
Meanwhile, former vice presidential aide I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby faces up to 30 years in prison for lying and obstructing justice during a probe which found that no crimes had been committed in the release of Valerie Plame’s name to reporters.
“If anyone needs a pardon,” said Mr. Bush, “it’s Joe Wilson. The only thing that kept him from lying to federal investigators is that they didn’t talk to him. I’m pardoning him today to preemptively put an end to the long national nightmare that we would have suffered if he had been charged for his crimes.”
Meanwhile, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said the CIA leak case is officially over, unless new evidence emerges.
“For example,” said Mr. Fitzgerald, “After Libby goes to prison, if he makes a false statement to a federal corrections officer in an effort to cover up jailhouse crimes that weren’t committed, that could blow this case wide open again.”
15 responses so far ↓
1 RedPepper // Mar 7, 2007 at 10:52 pm
God Help America - the politicians certainly won’t !
2 Darthmeister // Mar 7, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Bush is giving Joe Wilson a pardon?
Wilson will just lie about it to the media just to keep making himself look like a victim.
3 Darthmeister // Mar 7, 2007 at 11:13 pm
I wonder if Wilson will celebrate the good news with a yellow cake? I wonder if Dick Armitage will be invited to the party?
4 mig // Mar 7, 2007 at 11:19 pm
This makes it official: It’s illegal to be Republican.
5 mig // Mar 7, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Since Teddy Kennedy walked away from a dead girl with only a wrist slap (which was knocked down to a mild talking-to, plus time served: zero), Democrats have apparently become a protected class in America, immune from criminal prosecution no matter what they do.
As a result, Democrats have run wild, accepting bribes, destroying classified information, lying under oath, molesting interns, driving under the influence, obstructing justice and engaging in sex with underage girls, among other things.
Meanwhile, conservatives of any importance constantly have to spend millions of dollars defending themselves from utterly frivolous criminal prosecutions. Everything is illegal, but only Republicans get prosecuted.
6 mig // Mar 7, 2007 at 11:28 pm
Links to the two posts 4 and 5, and I thought I was posting on the the last thread which proves that when it is past my bedtime, I become a brainless wonder. So if y’all will pardon me; nobody told me I would be this tired.
7 RedPepper // Mar 7, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Joe Wilson reminds me of Mary McCarthy’s statement about Lillian Hellman :
“Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.”
8 conserve-a-tips // Mar 8, 2007 at 12:10 am
Pardon me
When I have done wrong
And lied ’bout a crime
that wasn’t for real all alonnng.
I’ve…tried to be stroonnng
But you’re gonna need
to give me a par-rr-don.
Joe - yeah, he lied too,
But they don’t want him ‘cuz he’ is a lib-e-ral.
And no, forget Armitage
He doesn’t like Bush.
Pardon me
When I’ve done wrong
And lied ’bout a crime
that wasn’t for real all alonnng.
I’ve…tried to be stroonnng
But you’re gonna need
to give me a par-rr-don.
So just lay it on me, POTUS ’cause you are the man
We may all need someone to pardon us.
I may just be the problem with which they tie up your hands.
We may all need someone to pardon us.
Pretty Please?????
9 Ms RightWing, Ink // Mar 8, 2007 at 12:34 am
Okay, I give up. Who is the liar, liar, pants on fire and who is the good guy? Hmm, guess I’ll think about that overnight.
Ni’tall
10 gafisher // Mar 8, 2007 at 1:50 am
Mr. Wilson doesn’t deserve a pardon; it’s his longsuffering wife Martha who has to endure the life sentence of living with him. Still, that Dennis kid next door has a lot to answer for.
Mig 4, 5 & 6: you’re right, Ann’s got it “on the money” again.
11 camojack // Mar 8, 2007 at 3:38 am
The “long national nightmare” wi11 continue, for the forseeable future.
That is a11…
12 bRight & Early // Mar 8, 2007 at 9:18 am
First Cup 03.08.07…
Ah! How sweet the coffee’s taste is, Sweeter than a thousand kisses, Milder than sweet muscatel. Coffee, coffee, I must have it, And if someone wants to treat me, Ah, my cup with coffee fill! ~ Johann Sebastian Bach (Koffee Kantate)
……
13 Terry Cowgill » Libby Land // Mar 8, 2007 at 9:56 am
[…] The only difference is Libby lied under oath. Otherwise, maybe it would be Wilson who needed a pardon. […]
14 Darthmeister // Mar 8, 2007 at 11:25 am
DATE SET: Democrats Want Iraq Pullout by Fall 2008…
I see how this works. Instead of bravely catering to their nitwit nutroots on the left and demand a pullout next month, the Democrats will set the date far enough into the future but not too far that it interferes with her highness sHrillary or the court jester Barack Obama if they happen to smooze their way into the presidency. Meanwhile, there’s a good chance that the situation on the ground in Iraq would allow President Bush to begin drawing down the troops by 2008 and that would set the table for Democrats to rush in and begin crowing how they helped win the war in Iraq by forcing a timetable on Bush and the Iraqi government! Brilliant! And they call themselves “patriots”?
15 Amused Cynic » Blog Archive » Bush Pardons Joseph Wilson and Valery Plame // Mar 8, 2007 at 3:04 pm
[…] Yeah, I think Scott Ott sums up the tone of the press coverage of this whole thing… […]
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