My oh freaking my…the list of people that wrote Judge Walton on behalf Scooter Libby reads like the docket of a future Nuremberg Trial. The Smoking Gun has the letters.
Donald Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger, Paul Wolfowitz, and John Bolton top the list of individuals who wrote a federal judge on behalf of former White House aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby…Others writing on Libby’s behalf included Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Richard Perle, former Pentagon adviser; James Woolsey, ex-CIA director; Douglas Feith, former Under Secretary of Defense; Christopher Cox, ex-congressman and current Securities and Exchange Commission chairman; Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of The New Republic; Washington lawyer and former Nixon counsel Leonard Garment; former U.S. Senator Alan Simpson; former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky; former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Richard Myers; and Dr. Anthony Fauci, a National Institutes of Health official.
But I have a little surprise for you. He may not have anticipated that his letter would become public, but none other than Corporal Cueball, Mr. James Carville himself, urged the Judge to consider “what further justice would be served by additional devastation to [Libby’s family] and the many other children that love Scooter.”
Here’s the letter, on Mary Matalin’s stationary.
Now…it might not be fair, but I see this kind of betrayal by James Carville to be a metaphor for everything that is wrong about the Clintons. Sure, when Poppy Bush goes gallivanting around the globe arm in arm with Bubba, we can make up excuses about ‘statesmenship’ and being ‘above the fray’. But the Bush family is a CRIME FAMILY and Clinton should never associate with them. This becomes clearest in the dining room of the Carville’s house, where no distinction is made between ‘left’ and ‘right’, only the ‘powerful’ and the ‘less so’.
Scooter Libby is a nice guy who loves children so it doesn’t matter that he worked tirelessly to start a disastrous war that has cost over half a million people their lives. It doesn’t matter that his administration has worked tirelessly to ratfuck Democrats and disenfranchise voters…especially minorities. No…none of this matters inside the Carville’s home. It’s all about power, for power’s sake.
This is, too much, what I see from the Clintons. Principles are malleable for this couple, just as they are irrelevant for James and Mary.
Scooter Libby should be rotting in prison for a long time for things he was not even charged with, and these fools think he’s getting a raw deal.
Talk to our troops and the people of Iraq. They’ll tell you who is getting a raw deal.
I’m speechless? James Carville has his wife transformed him into some sort of republican puppy dog?
No, power did that.
Power and his wife.
Hey Booman,
let’s invite James Carville to Philadelphia’s Drinkign liberally. We’ll buy his drinks, get him all fucked up, offer him a ride home, and then drop him off somewhere in Feltonville or one of the worse areas of Germantown. At 2:00 AM.
I can’t help thinking the judge was clutching his sides with laughter when he read this mawkish drivel. Seriously, is this the best they could come up with? It makes the Checkers speech look like a sober appeal to impartial reason.
“I can’t help thinking the judge was clutching his sides with laughter when he read this mawkish drivel.”
Drop by firedoglake, which liveblogged the sentencing, especially thread three. Reggie Walton was less than amused: for your entertainment, I submit emptywheel’s descriptions of Walton’s reaction to Wells’ letters:
You can practically hear the deep sighs coming from the judge, and see his eyes rolling.
Is Hillary going to publicly disassociate herself from Carville because of this? I don’t think so. But the blogosphere should demand that she does.
I can’t imagine that any reporters from the corporate media will ask her what she thinks about this.
[T]the blogosphere should demand that she does.
Well, that will no doubt get her right on it!
Otherwise, agreed.
Oh good god, what utter syprupy drivel..excuse me while I wring out my tear stained hankie…think of the children, think of the children …yeah maybe Libby should have thought about a few kids like say Valerie Plame’s kids and her family when he helped destroy her career or sending off poor kids to war based on complete lies.
I hope Carville gets crucified for this bullshit pandering to power but he probably won’t.
Or the kids or grandkids of people killed because of Plame’s outing, or the Iraqi girls being sold as prostitutes in Damascus and Jordan, or all the Iraqi kids made homeless, or fatherless or motherless or killed, or maimed
Besides, all he’s gotta do is tread water until he’s pardoned. I’m sure his fine will be taken care of.
Talk about “Stop Snitchin'”–he took one for the team. He’ll be richly rewarded.
Iraqi women, men and children? American soldiers and their families? Folks one hospital bill from ruin? Those who are falsely accused who can’t begin to dream about high-powered legal counsel?
Not so much.
I’m just thinking of how many men and women in the US prison system today have children that love and miss them too… and how many children are being deprived of a parent because that parent got caught with a small quantity of pot and happened to be poor or not white…
Or whose mother is in Iraq on her second extended tour. Or whose dad or big brother came home in a flag draped casket… or came home a radically different and less loving person due to post-traumatic stress syndrome…
I don’t have any sympathy for Libby, sorry. Why should his kids matter more than anyone else’s?
I was thinking exactly that also JanetT…how many many thousands in prison who shouldn’t be and how many corporate crooks who never ever will go to prison.
Amen and amen. You nailed it. It was simply four pages of the most offensive drivel I’ve ever read. I feel sorry for many children, but not the Potomac Privileged.
Am I at all surprised by Carville’s actions? Not in the least. I’d have been shocked if he HADN’T signed it.
I just heard on the radio that Mary M., along with other supporters, was in the courtroom. No doubt she was unable to hold back her rivers of tears for the poor, poor children.
Seeing this gang, with its stupefying record of brutality and of endorsement of brutality, blubbering for compassion and sympathy is comical and repellent to equal degrees.
I’ve just changed my mind about something. We don’t need to close Gitmo. We just need to change who’s in the cells.
Too bad some of us couldn’t have been in the courtroom also..Hey Hey Ho Ho Scooter Libby’s Gotta Go…Off To Gitmo!
Please, no … just more suffering imposed upon the legions of sobbing waifs from Alexandria to Silver Spring, beating their breasts with their little curled fists and wailing, “Why, Mommy? Why?”
I keep wanting to shout
“oh, my God! Wont someone, please, think of the children!”
Carville hasn’t really been on our side for a long time. The things he says and the crap he spouts. . .he is no friend of democrats and certainly no friend of liberals. Don’t know what happened to him, but he is less than ridiculous these days. I wish he was nowhere presuming to speak for progressives, liberals and dems. The things he says sound to me like he is trying to bring the dems down while pretending to be a dem himself.
Let’s flush him.
First dibs on the handle shirl.
Maybe we can do it together. . .sort of a simul-flush
I never trusted him even back in the days he was firmly in the Clinton camp. Yep, people kept telling me that it was “admirable” how Matalin and Carville could make a marriage work but I suspected that it could only work if they really agreed in some way.
Could anyone here imagine a marriage between a rabid (poltically active!) conservative republican and a rabid (politically active!!!!) “liberal” democrat? If the couple were sincere it would usually turn out to be a bloodbath.
So Carville never seemed real to me.
Carville was an obvious proxy for Bill and Hillary Clinton. That is why I totally suspect that Hillary, if elected president, will continue the Neocon project begun with Clean Break. She already talks about leaving the military attack of Iran on the table, a clearcut priority on the AIPAC agenda, and I would assume that if she is elected, American foreign policy will be dictated again, for at least another four years, out of Jerusalem.
When is this wagging dog called America going to get its feet back on the ground?
I’m so glad you mentioned Nuremberg. I had the same thought when I scrolled through the letters but squelched it as another part of my brain screamed “GODWIN!” at me. But I’m with you and my first impulse. They’re all war criminals.
Hey BooMan – Aren’t you glad we got those letters? Just knew they would be great reading!
Carville has been a traitor. He passed Kerry/Edwards campaign secrets to Rove during the 2004 election.
What other children? Good lord, given the subject of his fiction writing, I’m now imagining Libby as a pedophile. And why not? These people are truly and shamelessly capable of any kind of lie or misdeed, and they’ll always call it good.
So I’ll go file my nails waiting for the Dem response. Oh wait, that means I have time for a full day at the spa, because only decent people look the other way and don’t say anything mean.
Mary Matalin and James Carville show that when it comes to protecting a criminal who is “one of us,” they’ll throw out any scrap of decency or morality. Mary Matalin has a soul as ugly as her husband’s face.
And why do I say this? What kind of person would whore out her own children, setting them up as puppets to mouth her own cloying, propagandistic sentiments about Scooter Libby? “My children would often run up to me with joyous cries of, ‘Unca Twooter! Unca Twooter iss here! Yeahhh!’ Imagine how it cut my mother’s heart to the very quick when my own bundles of joy shed copious tears and sobbed, ‘Unca Twooter being held ‘countable for alleged lies and misuse of office? Unca Twooter good man! Bad, prosecutors! Bad, prosecutors!’ What could I tell them? I could only hang my head in shame at the idea that my country could do this harm to the sterling gentilhomme, to the magical creature of fire and light known as M. Libby. C’est tragique, n’est-pas?”
Mary Matalin prostitutes her own children. That’s even lower than her use of her government office to attack Wilson and Plame.