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Damon, darkly amusing here, firey wit according to a comment to another posting. Nice try, but the Git'mo comparison fails for two reasons. First, it is a military prison, and as such is governed by military rather than criminal code. Second, the prisoners are enemy combatants, and as such they are protected neither by the Constitution nor by the Geneva Conventions. The Constitution does not apply ot enemy combatants, and the prisoners forfeited Geneva Convention protections by violating the Conventions themselves. I've been over that already, go look it up.
Scoop, I have some remarks coming in the Life, Liberty & Pursuit of Happiness blog at http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/WriterofLight1342 about the so-called worst week of Bush's political career.
Numinous, I aim to please. I write almost daily about what I see going on. Come to the light, good reader, and you will see as well.
Glenn, I am in no way mad at Screamin' Howard. I find him absolutely hilarious.
Jethro, thank you for coming to bat.
Damon (again), if a crime was commited re the Plame Name, why wasn't Libbey indicted for it? I think there was no charge filed about it because she was not covert, as Jethro pointed out. Now if you really want to go in that direction, I offer you Senator Two-Sides Kerry, who blew the cover of CIA operative Fulton Armstrong in the Senate chambers (see http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/7/14/225202.shtml) during the Bolton hearings.
posted by
WriterofLight
on October 30, 2005 at 5:06 PM
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I Thought...
...that revealing the identity of an undercover operative was treason.
And the punishment for treason is death.
Or is that old-fashioned now?
D
posted by
DamonLeigh
on October 26, 2005 at 6:46 AM
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We might get through this whole presidency without any of these guys being convicted of the doing even the slightest thing wrong. For goodness sake the first indictment on Delay will be thrown out since the crime he was charged with wasn't even on the books at the time. How big of a red flag is it that a whole country full of news media as well as a supposedly upstanding prosecutor could go through a whole year's worth of run-up to this indictment and not even notice that humongous fact.
It is also a fact that the woman who actually wrote the law about disclosing the identity of a CIA agent has been telling anybody who will listen that no crime has been committed here. The operative words there are "anybody who will listen". We all know that the mainstream media has absolutely no plans of listening to that side.
Maybe Bush was let down by some of his appointees, but I don't think anybody could blame him for choosing them in the first place (Miers aside of course), but consider for a moment that the Democrats actually knew what Howard Dean was all about and still gave him one of the highest positions they had.
posted by
jethro
on October 25, 2005 at 3:43 PM
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WriterofLight,
You people are still mad at Howard Dean! Aren't you? He was the first person to stand-up and publically denounce this corrupt administration!
I am really not as surprised as others about your motive! I still say you are either up or in very close proximity of George Bush's ass!
posted by
Glennb
on October 25, 2005 at 10:36 AM
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Writeroflight
You amaze me. How you can continue to endorse this failed adminisration in the face of all the sleezy underhanded and corrupt things it has put us all through, is beyond me. Do you ever stop defending the indefencable long enough to look around you and "SEE" what is going on?
posted by
Numinous
on October 25, 2005 at 8:56 AM
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We all know that Howard "The Vermont Stump Jumper" Dean is nuts
I am pretty confident there will be indictments but where it goes from there who knows? These are some pretty dark days for President Bush with Rove, Libby, DeLay, Miers, and the impending 2,000 death in Iraq and even David Gergen told Lou Dobbs "the wheels are coming off". Even though I don't agree with Bush, his trusted people around him over the last four years did the damage.
posted by
scoop
on October 25, 2005 at 7:09 AM
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I Continue to Find You...
...darkly amusing in your righteous indignation.
"Just being suspected of something is proof of guilt." Shock! Horror!
"...his contempt for the judicial system." How terrible!!
"...his dismissal of the concept of innocence being presumed until guilt is proven in court" Oh my God!
"...in total violation of his rights to due process." Gasp!!
Two words.
Guantanamo Bay.
I rest my case.
D
posted by
DamonLeigh
on October 25, 2005 at 4:23 AM
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