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MrRodgers -> RE: 33% of sanders voters won't vote for hillary (3/16/2016 10:42:03 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Tkman117
If you ignore the fake scandals invented by the right, she still has A LOT of ammo against her that puts her at a disadvantage compared to sanders. Criminal? I'd say that's questionable and up to the courts to decide. Corrupt? Without a doubt.
What do you call outing the head CIA agent working with the Afgan government. That is attempeted murder if not treason. And don't give me any garbage about Plame, the BUsh people were cleared of that.
BTW, before you say it, no Libby was not jailed for outing her, he was jailed for saying he didn't remember something that they demonstrated he most likely did.
In January 2004, the Justice Department chose prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald to investigate the leak of Valerie Plame's identity. From the outset, he was made fully aware that the leaker was Armitage, who resigned from the State Department in November 2004 but remained a subject of the inquiry until February 2006 when Fitzgerald told him in a letter that he would not be charged. The New York Times reported on Sept. 2, 2006:
Among the many things that should give a thinking person pause about this whole sad story is that Patrick Fitzgerald knew from the outset who had leaked the information about Wilson’s wife to Bob Novak. It had been Deputy Secretary of State Rich Armitage, who told the Justice Department that he had leaked the information to Novak, but kept what he had done from the White House.
Then Fitzgerald went after reporters sources, one spending 85 days in jail, many spending untold $1,000's on attorneys fee and all...for no reason but opposition harassment.
Cheney was pissed at Bush for not immediately granting him the great repub get away free card, otherwise know as a...presidential pardon. HERE
Most astute observers know that on the corruption score card since Nixon and then surely Reagan, the repubs have a big lead.
There's no doubt the Bush officials deliberately revealed Plame's CIA connection, if not her name, to the press. But the Plame leak could be characterized as inadvertent in one sense: the leakers, both in the State Department and the White House, did not know that Plame's status at the CIA was classified when they mentioned her to reporters. That is why no one was ever charged with leaking her identity; they did not knowingly and deliberately reveal classified information. So in that sense it was all a mistake. Yes, it was inadvertent, colossally stupid, an embarrassment -- but it was a mistake. HERE
I have heard Obama called treasonous, a traitor and any number of charges for almost his entire two terms and the release of the CIA station chief's name...was an error while the release of Plame's name...was deliberate. The only difference was status at the time.
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