Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Jail for the press, free pass for a Bush buddy

Jim Taricani

So, to the surprise of just about no one, President Bush commuted Scooter Libby’s sentence. Bush just couldn’t let this chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney do time for doing what the Prez and his number two wanted him to do: Leak the name of a CIA operative to get back at Ambassador Joseph Wilson for writing that very truthful op-ed piece in the New York Times that debunked Bush’s reason for going to war in Iraq.
Libby is a traitor, pure and simple. He was willing to risk the life of a former covert CIA operative because her husband dared to tell the truth.
You might remember that when the leak investigation began, President Bush said if the “ leaker is found, I will fire that person.“
Not only has no one been fired-even after it was proven Libby and Richard Armitage leaked Valerie Plame’s name-Libby gets convicted of obstruction of justice and perjury and gets a free pass from jail from the president.
So who’s the only person in this drama to go to jail?
A journalist!!  Judy Miller formally of the New York Times…WHO NEVER PUBLISHED ONE WORD OF A STORY on the Plame case, spent 81 days in jail for protecting that traitor, Scooter.
So the next time you hear a federal judge, or a president tell you that no one is above the law in this country, please keep in mind they are only talking about journalists and other common-folk.
They are not referring to those in powerful positions, who do the bidding of presidents and vice presidents who, in the words of actor Jack Nicholson, “ can’t handle the truth.“