Re: Circumstantial Evidence (451 Views)
Posted by:
PapaChach (IP Logged)
Date: August 10, 2007 11:43PM
Incorrect.
Just because Fitz couldn't prove that Rove outed a covert intelligence officer - in part because Libby was willing to "stick his neck into the meat grinder", as Cheney put it in a statement that was admitted into evidence at the trial - doesn't mean that outing a covert intelligence officer is not a crime.
I rarely post here and I hate to enter the Chuckle-licious fray, and I hesitate to get political on this board; furthermore, I must state for the record that my comments should not be construed as an endorsement of the clown, his opinions, or his methods. I am a bite-my-tongue kinda guy for the most part, but I just can't let that "it wasn't a crime cuz that's what they said on Faux News" meme sit there unopposed, when it is so blatantly incorrect.
Plame was covert, and she was outed in an act of political revenge against her husband, who dared to publicly question the lies used to justify O.I.L. (Operation Iraqi Liberation - hey, don't yell at me, that's the name they used at the beginning). Plenty of people get away with illegal @#$%& every day - the fact that they get away with it doesn't mean it ain't illegal.