LIBBY'S BRAIN
Scooter Libby's "Alzheimer's Defense" trial ended yesterday in conviction. Jurors decided the celebrated lawyer and Cheney chief of staff had a good enough memory to remember the pardon in his hip pocket--the Get Out of Jail Free card he was offered in exchange for taking one for the Bush team--and therefore should have remembered the conversations he had with reporters Judith Miller and Matthew Cooper, when he leaked the identity of covert CIA operative, Valerie Plame Wilson.
On appeal, Libby plans to use his non-existent conversation with Tim Russert of NBC news to prove his memory loss was real.
Though federal guidelines would suggest Libby faces 1-3 behind bars, his grin leaving the courtroom suggested he also recalled "Bush's Brain" Karl Rove's White House game strategy: to call for a new trial and failing that, drag out the appeals process over the next 22 months, when Bush can hightail it out of Washington and pardon him.
Cheney's brain, enraged over Ambassador Wilson's outing of the Bush team's bogus war claims, had scribbled in the margins of the NYTimes/Wilson expose that the way to get Wilson was through his undercover wife. From there, Cheney went on the attack, leading to the most serious crimes committed by high government officials since the Nixon Era.
But as Cheney's chief of staff's Alzheimer's issues surfaced, God frantically pointed at the Vice President's brain by planting a blood clot in his leg. Rarely had God, a better shot than the vice president, gotten so physically involved in a pending case.
Back in 2003, George Bush's actual brain insisted that anyone in his administration convicted of leaking classified information would be treated harshly. In keeping, Libby's pardon will be good only until Alzheimer's robs his memory of those who set him up.
The lesson here for the nation's school children is the "No Witness Left Behind" principle. With Libby's onset Alzheimer's, and the Vice President's onset leg clot, Karl Rove's wife is quietly beefing up her husband's life insurance policy. Her greatest fear is that he'll be sent to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Bush's Roach Motel, where the president's wounded check in, but never check out.
Lost forever in the deception is the serious crime, committed by Libby puppeteers Cheney, Rove, and Bush, of outing spy Valerie Plame Wilson in order to silence her husband, Iraqi war critic, Ambassador Joe Wilson. The bogus war that resulted has cost over a half-trillion dollars, and over a hundred thousand lives.
Elsewhere in the news, NASA is canceling its Killer Asteroid program, citing lack of funds. NASA says finding 90% of the Earth-crossing asteroids and destroying them would cost $1 billion dollars, or about 3 days worth of the Iraqi War -- money it simply does not have. Asteroids capable of ending life on Earth hit every 500,000 years or so, with the last impact occurring in 498,000 BC.
Scooter Libby's "Alzheimer's Defense" trial ended yesterday in conviction. Jurors decided the celebrated lawyer and Cheney chief of staff had a good enough memory to remember the pardon in his hip pocket--the Get Out of Jail Free card he was offered in exchange for taking one for the Bush team--and therefore should have remembered the conversations he had with reporters Judith Miller and Matthew Cooper, when he leaked the identity of covert CIA operative, Valerie Plame Wilson.
On appeal, Libby plans to use his non-existent conversation with Tim Russert of NBC news to prove his memory loss was real.
Though federal guidelines would suggest Libby faces 1-3 behind bars, his grin leaving the courtroom suggested he also recalled "Bush's Brain" Karl Rove's White House game strategy: to call for a new trial and failing that, drag out the appeals process over the next 22 months, when Bush can hightail it out of Washington and pardon him.
Cheney's brain, enraged over Ambassador Wilson's outing of the Bush team's bogus war claims, had scribbled in the margins of the NYTimes/Wilson expose that the way to get Wilson was through his undercover wife. From there, Cheney went on the attack, leading to the most serious crimes committed by high government officials since the Nixon Era.
But as Cheney's chief of staff's Alzheimer's issues surfaced, God frantically pointed at the Vice President's brain by planting a blood clot in his leg. Rarely had God, a better shot than the vice president, gotten so physically involved in a pending case.
Back in 2003, George Bush's actual brain insisted that anyone in his administration convicted of leaking classified information would be treated harshly. In keeping, Libby's pardon will be good only until Alzheimer's robs his memory of those who set him up.
The lesson here for the nation's school children is the "No Witness Left Behind" principle. With Libby's onset Alzheimer's, and the Vice President's onset leg clot, Karl Rove's wife is quietly beefing up her husband's life insurance policy. Her greatest fear is that he'll be sent to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Bush's Roach Motel, where the president's wounded check in, but never check out.
Lost forever in the deception is the serious crime, committed by Libby puppeteers Cheney, Rove, and Bush, of outing spy Valerie Plame Wilson in order to silence her husband, Iraqi war critic, Ambassador Joe Wilson. The bogus war that resulted has cost over a half-trillion dollars, and over a hundred thousand lives.
Elsewhere in the news, NASA is canceling its Killer Asteroid program, citing lack of funds. NASA says finding 90% of the Earth-crossing asteroids and destroying them would cost $1 billion dollars, or about 3 days worth of the Iraqi War -- money it simply does not have. Asteroids capable of ending life on Earth hit every 500,000 years or so, with the last impact occurring in 498,000 BC.
posted by R. Reynolds at 10:22 AM
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