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Harry Hope
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 Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:05 am Post subject: A Judgment on Cheney Is Still to Come. |
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From The New York Times, 3/7/07:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/07/washington/07cheney.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
For Cheney, Political Toll May Follow Libby Verdict
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
WASHINGTON, —
In legal terms, the jury has spoken in the Libby case.
In political terms, Dick Cheney is still awaiting a judgment.
For weeks, Washington watched, mesmerized, as the trial of I. Lewis
Libby Jr. cast Vice President Cheney, his former boss, in the role of
puppeteer, pulling the strings in a covert public relations campaign
to defend the Bush administration’s case for war in Iraq and discredit
a critic.
“There is a cloud over the vice president,” the prosecutor, Patrick J.
Fitzgerald, told the jury in summing up the case last month.
Mr. Cheney was not charged in the case, cooperated with the
investigation and expressed a willingness to testify if called, though
he never was.
Yet he was a central figure throughout, fighting back against
suggestions that he and President Bush had taken the country to war on
the basis of flawed intelligence, showing himself to be keenly
sensitive to how he was portrayed in the news media and backing Mr.
Libby to the end.
With Tuesday’s verdict on Mr. Libby — guilty on four of five counts,
including perjury and obstruction of justice — Mr. Cheney’s critics,
and even some of his supporters, said the vice president had been
diminished.
“The trial has been death by 1,000 cuts for Cheney,” said Scott Reed,
a Republican strategist.
“It’s hurt him inside the administration. It’s hurt him with the
Congress, and it’s hurt his stature around the world because it has
shown a lot of the inner workings of the White House. It peeled the
bark right off the way they operate.”
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Most of us have already formed their judgements of Tricky Dicky Cheney
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DemocratsFEARtheTRUTH
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:19 am Post subject: Re: A Judgment on Cheney Is Still to Come. |
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Still making shit up. The case is closed for those of you too stupid to
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:44 am Post subject: Re: A Judgment on Cheney Is Still to Come. |
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"DemocratsFEARtheTRUTH" <Libs Loathe Military@earthlink.net> wrote in
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Still making shit up. The case is closed for those of you too stupid
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get it.
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Thats not what Bush said. He said since the case is on-going he couldn't
comment on it. |
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Joshua Aaron
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:54 am Post subject: Re: A Judgment on Cheney Is Still to Come. |
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On Mar 7, 4:19 pm, "DemocratsFEARtheTRUTH" <Libs Loathe
Milit...@earthlink.net> wrote:
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Still making shit up. The case is closed for those of you too stupid to
get it.
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You F. The case IS open and not commented on by the administration.
This is nothing new for any one attempting to get answers from the
Bush house. It appears every case is open and not commented on. |
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