Why should he roll-over, by the time they drag out the appeals it’ll be 2009 and I will bet the ranch (Bush’s) that a pardon is the last act the decider-in-chief does before he hands over the White House ands heads home to Crawford.
Linkmeister, I don’t think I had even stumbled over the word shadenfreude before 2003. Trouble is, we still don’t get enough opportunity to use it or feel it.
Gary, I have the same fear. However, there is the point that Scooter is *Cheney’s* little problem and we know the Prez doesn’t like it when underlings make him look bad. And this does make him look bad. Maybe it depends on whether his spite gets the better of him or Cheney does. Nevertheless, I’m enjoying it for the moment and appreciate the damage it does to their already tattered credibility. Maybe it will lead to something even better. We can hope.
Posted by Kate on 03/06/07 at 05:28 PM
For the record, Libby is not the one who “leaked” Plame’s name to Novak. Richard Armitage did that.
The man who actually leaked Valerie Plame’s identity as a CIA agent was the former number two to Secretary of State Colin Powell, the solidly built, “tell-it-like-it-is” Dick Armitage.
By all accounts he passed on the relevant information to the journalist Robert Novak as a piece of gossip.
Mr Armitage did not even know that Ms Plame had been undercover.
Oh, you know, Jen, you will notice that the name Novak nor the word leak entered the discussion above.
Nevertheless, it is pretty clear now that Valerie Plame was a target on Cheney’s radar and it was an orchestrated effort to ruin her. Scooter blabbed to several people and got caught. He lied about it (poorly), and he got nailed for it. Poor Scooter. And don’t you find it curious that Ari Fleischer was granted immunity so that he would talk to the prosecutors without screwing himself in the process? That’s not the kind of deal people make when it’s all innocence and flowers. Bunch of scumbuckets.
Posted by Kate on 03/07/07 at 04:24 PM
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That sound you hear bubbling up around the internet is unholy glee mixed with schadenfreude (a word I had never used in my life until about 2003).