Why did POTUS pardon Libby?
This is an attempt to shut down 8chan.
We dont need links to pedophilia or human trafficking.
You lack critical thinking.
The minute we research and spread those hashtags, we are targets.
8chan will go down.
>>102613
Agreed
Thanks
It is only a matter of time before some dumbass posts a pedo pic or something on here.
Not a shill.
It isnt hard to collect screenshots, newfag.
"Print Screen" "Snipping tool" and MS Paint are your friend.
Mueller was chief then…digging.
United States v. Libby was the federal trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a former high-ranking official in the George W. Bush administration, for interfering with special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's criminal investigation of the Plame affair.
Libby served as Assistant to the President under George W. Bush and Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States and Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs under Dick Cheney from 2001 to 2005. Libby resigned from his government positions hours after his indictment on October 28, 2005.
Libby was indicted by a federal grand jury on five felony counts of making false statements to federal investigators, perjury for lying to a federal grand jury, and obstruction of justice for impeding the course of a federal grand jury investigation concerned with the possibly illegal leaking by government officials of the classified identity of a covert agent of the CIA, Valerie Plame Wilson, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV. Pursuant to the grand jury leak investigation, Libby was convicted on March 6, 2007, on four counts of perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements. He was acquitted of one count of making false statements.
Libby was sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $250,000. The sentence was commuted in June 2007 by President Bush, voiding the prison term. The convictions still stand on the record.
On April 3, 2007, the District of Columbia Bar suspended his license to practice law in Washington, D.C., and recommended his disbarment pending his appeal of his conviction.[1] On March 20, 2008, after he dropped his appeal, he was disbarred by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, in Washington, D.C., at least until 2012.[2] He delayed reinstatement until June 2016, when he successfully petitioned the court for reinstatement. He was readmitted to the D.C. bar on November 3, 2016.[3]
In the District of Columbia Court of Appeals Disciplinary Counsel's Report reinstating Libby's law license, the Counsel noted that Libby had continued to assert his innocence. As a result, the Counsel had to "undertake a more complex evaluation of a Petition for reinstatement" than when a petitioner admits guilt. But the Counsel found that "Libby has presented credible evidence in support of his version of events and it appears that one key prosecution witnesses (sic), Judith Miller, has changed her recollection of the events in question."[4] The reference to Judith Miller, a former New York Times reporter, involved her memoir, The Story, A Reporter's Journey. In the book, Miller said she read Plame's memoir and discovered that Plame's cover was at the State Department, a fact Miller said the prosecution had withheld from her. In rereading what she called her "elliptical" notes (meaning hard to decipher), she realized they were about Plame's cover, not her job at the CIA. She concluded that her testimony that Libby had told her Plame worked at the CIA was wrong. "Had I helped convict an innocent man?" she asked.[5] Miller went on to note that John Rizzo, a former CIA general counsel, had said in his memoir that there was no evidence that the outing of Plame had caused any damage to CIA operations or agents, including Plame.[6] That statement rebuts the prosecution's closing argument that as a result of the disclosure of Plame's identity, a CIA operative could be "arrested, tortured, or killed." [7] [8]
The unfinished business of the Libby conviction has been a longtime rallying point for conservatives, including current members of Trump’s administration. The right’s narrative about Libby — that he was railroaded by an overreaching, politically driven special prosecutor — syncs with Trump’s view of his own predicament, as special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s continues to dig into Trump’s world. “A TOTAL WITCH HUNT!!!” the president has tweeted about the Mueller investigation.
Libby was a prominent Washington lawyer with blue-chip credentials — Phillips Academy, Yale University, Columbia University’s law school. According to The Post, his former political science teacher, the neoconservative Paul Wolfowitz, urged Libby to work in government. During the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, Libby served in both the state and defense departments on foreign policy issues.
In the George W. Bush White House, Libby was a close confidante of Cheney. Along with Wolfowitz, Condoleezza Rice and others, he was a key member of the neoconservative clique within the administration pushing for an aggressive expansion of American interests abroad. They were called “the Vulcans.” The brainy and brawny ideology was the architecture behind the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Richard B. Cheney’s former chief of staff, walks to the U.S. District Court in Washington on Nov. 16, 2005. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
Libby’s trouble began with the drumbeat leading up to the invasion of Iraq. As The Post previously reported, in January 2003, President Bush used his State of the Union address to justify military action against Saddam Hussain’s regime. The president told the country Iraq officials had attempted to purchase yellowcake uranium in Niger.
Six months later, the New York Times published an opinion piece by former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV. In the article, Wilson recounted a 2002 trip he made to Niger to substantiate the allegations, later finding them to be false, The Post reported.
On July 14, syndicated columnist Robert Novak penned a column outing Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA “operative.” The CIA requested a Department of Justice investigation into the naming of Plame as an agent — a breach of classified information. An FBI investigation started into whether Plame’s identity was leaked to reporters as political payback for her husband’s public challenge to the administration.
“My name and identity were carelessly and recklessly abused by senior government officials in both the White House and the State Department,” Plame would later say before Congress.
By the end of 2003, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft recused himself from the case.
That left the decision on how to proceed to the deputy attorney general — a man named James B. Comey.
The future-FBI director appointed Patrick J. Fitzgerald, a U.S. attorney from Chicago, as special counsel.
The grand jury investigated the leaks. Both Bush and Cheney were interviewed by Fitzgerald. No one was ever charged for outing Plame, but Libby was charged with federal obstruction of justice and perjury charges for lying to investigators.
In March 2007, Libby was found guilty on four felony counts, becoming the highest-ranking White House official convicted since the Iran-contra scandal in the 1980s. He lost his appeal that summer, and a judge sentenced Libby to a 30-month sentence and fined him $250,000.
In July 2007, Bush commuted Libby’s sentence, saying in a statement he had “respect” for the jury’s verdict but found the prison sentence “excessive.” The commutation, however, left Libby with the large fine and two years of probation — and teed up the conflict between Bush and Cheney in the last days of the administration.
As the Bush team prepared to exit the White House, Cheney continued to urge for a full pardon for his former staffer, giving the cause an “extraordinary level of attention,” an insider told Time.
Bush was cautious about pardons, an administration official told Time, and Libby failed to meet the president’s own criteria. “Pardons tend to be for the repentant . . . not for those who think the system was politicized or they were unfairly targeted.”
In an Oval Office meeting, Cheney tried once more to persuade the president. According to Time, he argued Libby was a loyal team player who had been made into a political fall guy. Fred F. Fielding, the White House counsel, argued against the pardon. Bush eventually sided with Fielding.
Only months after leaving the White House, Cheney expressed his frustration with Bush’s decision. “I was clearly not happy that we, in effect, left Scooter sort of hanging in the wind, which I didn’t think was appropriate,” he told CNN.
Other Bush loyalists also expressed their frustration — including a number who are now in Trump’s orbit.
“Somebody’s going to have to ask President Bush why he went out of his way to say he respected the jury’s verdict,” John R. Bolton, Bush’s U.N. ambassador and Trump’s new national security adviser, said at the time. “If you think it was a miscarriage of justice, then you think it shouldn’t have gone to a jury to begin with.”
Alan Dershowitz, a vocal Trump defender on cable television, also pushed Libby’s appellate cause, calling his appeals “serious and substantial” and filing a brief in 2007 asking for Libby to be granted bail pending his appeal.
Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova, the husband-and-wife attorney team Trump considered hiring earlier this year, are also vocal Libby backers.
When Libby got his law license back in 2016, diGenova told the Daily Caller: “Comey and Fitzgerald tried to frame Scooter Libby, and they did, but then they didn’t get it done. And then of course that idiot George W. Bush didn’t give him a pardon.”
I wish POTUS would give ME a pardon…
Evil
No, you creepy fuck.
…and for the autistic as well.
ardon the interruption.
President Trump painted former FBI director James Comey on Friday as a “ LIAR & LEAKER” — hours after reports that he plans to pardon former George W. Bush administration aide I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby for committing those very crimes.
Libby, a close associate of Vice President Dick Cheney, was convicted in 2007 of obstructing justice, perjury and lying to the FBI.
He was set to serve 30 months in jail, but Bush commuted his sentence.
Libby was a central figure in the leaking of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity.
Comey — at the time was serving as deputy attorney general — was the one who appointed a special prosecutor in the Plame case.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Friday declined to confirm Trump’s plans for a pardon. Still, she said, “many people think that Scooter Libby was the victim of a special counsel gone amok.” Asked if a pardon was about Comey, Conway said no.
NOV. 16, 2005 FILE PHOTO
Lewis 'Scooter' Libby walks to the U.S. District Court in Washington on Nov. 16, 2005. (J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AP)
Trump fired Comey last year, setting up Mueller’s appointment as special counsel.
Comey describes Trump as unethical and “untethered to truth” a highly critical book set to be released next week.
Trump responded Friday by tweeting that Comey is an “untruthful slime ball” who should be prosecuted for leaking classified information.
“It was my great honor to fire him,” he added.
The White House has denied Trump ever encouraged Comey to end an investigation into former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn, an encounter Comey memorialized in private notes that he later described in testimony before Congress.
Trump has also accused Comey of leaking information by authorizing a friend to shared details of the discussion about Flynn with the media.
Trump fired Comey (pictured) last year, setting up Mueller’s appointment as special counsel.
Trump fired Comey (pictured) last year, setting up Mueller’s appointment as special counsel. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
The Libby pardon comes as Mueller moves closer to Trump’s inner circle and the President’s personal lawyer’s office was raided by the FBI.
Mueller is reportedly looking at possible obstruction of justice by Trump and whether anyone on his campaign coordinated with Russia to influence the 2016 election.
Plame, meanwhile, told MSNBC that the pardon said more about the President and those around him than her or Libby.
“It’s not about me, it’s absolutely not about (Scooter) Libby, it’s about Donald Trump and his future,” she said. “It’s very clear that this is a message he is sending that you can commit crimes against national security and you will be pardoned.”
“The message being sent is, you can commit perjury and I will pardon you if it protects me and I deem that you are loyal to me,” she added.
>Libby was a central figure in the leaking of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity.
POTUS pardoned a leaker?
WTF?
You are in serious need of a record cover, my friend.
Thank you for giving.
Well, the IG for starters…
Again, we need a backup plan…somewhere to regroup.
General consensus earlier was VOAT…
Unless anyone has any problems with this, Id like to suggest that bakers add VOAT as a contingency in future breads.
Insider trading
I'm not sure. Do you have the link or post?
It is disturbing that we havent thought of this already.
I strongly feel this needs to be resolved immediately.
Hopefully Q is monitoring our posts and has suggestions.
…but muh escorts!