This just in (NPR)

Post #288,273 by Ashton 7/3/07 7:32:46 PM Reply	This just in (NPR) Seems that the Judge who sentenced the Scooter believes that Shrub's conditions "violate Federal Law" - 'probation' may be invoked only after a perp has completed his term.. Ooohh I. Love. It. An Excuse to just complete the obv. intended, eventual total whitewash! And get away with it, along with Cheney -- -- because No One Has the Guts to Act -- even Yet {Bets??} All those dead Texans who never got even a peek at a reconsideration of Their trials or sentencing notwithstanding ... (Heard also, en passant - that He+Jesus granted commutation only to 2? 3? persons thus far in his Reign - each of whom served >10 Years before receiving that scarcity, Presidential Compassioneering. 'Course those suckers had no $$, Oil or Buddies; kinda surprising there were so Many.) Watch those Alabaster cities gleam tomorrow, y'all ..always brings a lump, eh?
Post #288,274 by Another Scott 7/3/07 7:52:16 PM Reply	I didn't understand the reasoning... I heard a brief discussion of it on the NewsHour rebroadcast on our local NPR station. The argument presented was, supposedly, probation only is applicable after a prison sentence is served. Yet people get probation without serving time all the time. Perhaps there's some details that get glossed over in reporting (e.g. the prison sentence is suspended pending successful completion of probation) though. The people I heard talking about it said, IIRC, that the judge was going to hear arguments about it, but they didn't think that Scooter would get out of probation (short of a presidential pardon, of course). FWIW. [...] I guess the technical term is "supervised release" and [link\|http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20070703-1423-cialeak-confusion.html\|Judge Walton raised the issue]. He's supposed to hear arguments on Monday. It would be delicious if Bush messed this up too (by not consulting anyone in the Justice Department and elsewhere about the proper way to do it), wouldn't it? Cheers, Scott.
Post #288,279 by a6l6e6x 7/3/07 8:31:52 PM Reply	On that News Hour segment, which I watched,... the lady that had worked in the DoJ department dealing with pardons in past mentioned that there is a large number of pardon applications in the queue. Some people have served 10 years in prison and have met the typical requirements for consideration. W has pardoned fewer than any president in the past 100 years. Scooter, of course, bypassed DoJ review. Alex When fascism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. -- Sinclair Lewis
Post #288,282 by Another Scott 7/3/07 8:47:17 PM Reply	If you've got a nickname from W, you're golden. :-/
Post #288,297 by Another Scott 7/4/07 12:26:47 PM Reply	.mp3 link to the segment on the NewsHour. [link\|http://www-tc.pbs.org/newshour/rss/media/2007/07/03/20070703_libby28.mp3\|20070703_libby28.mp3]. It's ~ 10 minutes or so. I thought the ex-DOJ lawyer made a much stronger case than the guy who was impressed by the 150 letters that Scooter got in support. :-/ Cheers, Scott.
Post #288,283 by Andrew Grygus 7/3/07 9:28:18 PM Reply	Best thing that could happen for Bush . . . would be: He's pleased his "base" by letting Scooter off. Now if a judge puts him back in prison on a technicality, that would please everyone else - best of both worlds. Of course there would be some pressure for a pardon, but Bush can ignore that, he's already made his point - and soon the whole thing will be forgotten [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]

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