Situation update, early 21st century America:
It's okay to grab people in their own country, transport them to Gitmo, and hold them without representation, charges or trial for more than five years with no end in sight.
It's also okay for a high-ranking Administration official to participate in revealing classified information, undercutting U.S. intelligence efforts, endangering covert operatives, and lie to Congress about it in order to damage a political opponent. And so long as you're a White House insider, you can do all of this without spending a single day in jail.
President Commutes Libby's Prison Sentence
Yet more evidence of the Administration's disdain for the rule of law and the will of the people, especially when it applies to them or their cronies.
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"It's also okay for a high-ranking Administration official to participate in revealing classified information, undercutting U.S. intelligence efforts, endangering covert operatives, and lie to Congress about it in order to damage a political opponent. And so long as you're a White House insider, you can do all of this without spending a single day in jail."
Well, yes, have you got a problem with that?
Heaven forbid the President actually use one of his Constitutionally mandated powers.
"Heaven forbid the President actually use one of his Constitutionally mandated powers."
Which, of course, is not the issue.
The issue is one of appropriateness. I'm sure you wouldn't support the commutation of Charles Manson's sentence, even though it's within the Consitutional powers of the Presidency.
The issue is, was he right to commute the sentence of someone who was convicted by a jury of lying to Congress and the FBI, obstructing justice in a felony investigation? Someone who didn't spend a single day in jail for his crime?
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