Libby Drops Appeal

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Ex-White House Aide Libby Drops Appeal in Leak Case (Update1)
By Robert Schmidt
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aT1.ebZSrhsc&refer=us

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Libby's attorney, Theodore Wells, said he filed papers in federal court in Washington today asking that the appeal be dismissed.

``We remain fully convinced of Mr. Libby's innocence,'' Wells said in a statement. ``The burden on Mr. Libby and his young family of continuing to pursue his complete vindication are too great to ask them to bear.''

Libby was convicted by a federal jury March 6 of lying to investigators probing the 2003 leak of Central Intelligence Agency official Valerie Plame's identity. Bush commuted what he called Libby's ``excessive'' 30-month prison sentence on July 2, hours after a federal appeals court ruled that Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, would have to go to prison during his appeal.

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Evidence of Guilt

In sentencing Libby to prison, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton, a Bush appointee, said there was overwhelming evidence of guilt.

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At the time of the commutation, Bush didn't rule out giving Libby a full pardon in the future. That would wipe out the conviction, which remains on Libby's record.

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1. Too bad for Scooty....

...based on the upcoming bombshell of the Halliburton/KBR rape case along with the now inevitable video tape release of the atrocities at Abu Ghraib that neither Motherfucker George Bush nor Shitstain Shoots-Guy-In-Face will be around to give him that pardon.

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2. Why bother

He's already been promised his pardon around Jan 19, 2009

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3. "burden on his family," wth, he got tons of $$ for legal defense

from BushBots! So what's he doing with that money?

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4. For old times sake...

Libby's secret defense fund
How much of the money given to Cheney's former aide will come from Halliburton et al.? The public now has no way to know.
By Joe Conason
http://dir.salon.com/story/opinion/conason/2005/11/15/libby_defense/

Nov 15, 2005 | I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby may have taken the perp walk for the Bush White House, but he will never walk alone. As the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney considers his options -- including possible cooperation with special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald -- friends of the administration are rallying to his side. Unlike his old boss Cheney, the indicted Libby lacks the millions of dollars needed to mount a proper Washington scandal defense, but evidently he will have no trouble attracting the assistance of right-wing operatives, administration aides and Republican lobbyists.

Actually, someone who personifies all those categories and more has materialized to mastermind the Scooter Libby defense committee, with promises of financial assistance and supportive publicity.

Her name is Barbara Comstock, a minor figure from the Whitewater era, when she served as "chief investigator" for Rep. Dan Burton, the wigged-out Indiana congressman who once executed a watermelon to demonstrate his sinister theory concerning the fate of Vince Foster, the White House counsel who committed suicide in 1993. During those glory years, she joined David Brock and the rest of the Republican pack in the hunting of Bill and Hillary Clinton. In his memoir, "Blinded by the Right," Brock described Comstock as almost unhinged in her passion to bring down the Clintons.

Comstock calmed down enough to serve as director of public affairs in John Ashcroft's Justice Department, to run opposition research for the Republican National Committee and, ultimately, after leaving government, to join the powerhouse lobbying firm of Blank Rome, best known for its huge contributions to the Republican Party, its close association with former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and other Bush appointees, and its lucky clientele of DHS contractors.

Is there something wrong with this picture? The most illuminating way to answer that question, perhaps, is to imagine what Comstock and others of her ilk might have said if the same situation had obtained during the Clinton administration.
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http://www.scooterlibby.com/

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5. Ex-White House Aide Libby Drops Appeal in Leak Case (Update2)

By Robert Schmidt
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aUCykEq6Hixo&refer=us

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Wilson, in a statement today, said he would continue to ``get at the truth in this sordid matter'' through his civil lawsuit against Libby, Cheney and former White House political adviser Karl Rove. That case was dismissed in July, though Wilson is appealing.

``By dropping his appeal, Mr. Libby has finally abandoned the pretense that his conviction was a miscarriage of justice,'' Wilson said....