Conditioning the populace and press for what’s to come.
If Libby is pardoned, he can speak freely about Bush+Cheney complicity in the Yellowcake scam.
While the leak modus reads from the Rove playbook, the benefit was imminently Cheney’s. Burning Plame and her husband Wilson stopped them from delegitimizing the WMD charge against Iraq and the major justification for war in Iraq.
Richard Armitage’s claim of accidentally leaking Plame forced him out of public service and into a series of cushy public sector sinecures. The leak publisher Columnist Robert Novak was eventually disgraced.
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Every one of those bastards should be rotting in the Hague. Stooges included.
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‘sources familiar with the president’s thinking.’
Sorry; the president’s what?
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Where do you get that idea from?
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Justice!
Or maybe the Fucking Moron-in-Chief thinks this sends a message to Mueller.
Or maybe Mueller’s real job is to drive the stupid, vain, infantile Trump so crazed that he acts in ways that makes him and his party as repulsive as possible so voters would get rid of the, It’s not like DNC Dems are supportive enough of capitalists and neoliberals. In other words, no matter how this plays out, Team Mueller can’t lose. And Donald can’t win. Poor Donald; being a lifelong chiseler, punk thief and thug really doesn’t scale up to being POTUS.
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I suspect the Republican old guard are getting a few requests in while they can.
“Jesus, another crazy story just broke. I think the Spray-Tan Stalin is running out of time.”
“No shit. I guess we better get cranking on the wishlist. What’ve we got?”
“Well, poor old Scooter’s still got those four felony charges hanging over him.”
“Right, we should fix that up. That should be an easy sell: noble patriot, took one for the cause, railroaded by the FBI, etc. etc. He pardoned that psycho Arpaio, after all.”
“Yeah, but Arpaio’s closer to Trump’s own brand of crazy. There’s what you might call a natural affinity there. Scooter’s a normal human being.”
“Just leave that bit out. Should we pitch it on ‘Fox & Friends’, or do you want to talk to him privately?”
“I’ll have a word in private. Let’s keep ‘Fox’ for the big stuff. We’ve still got a lot of outstanding requests from Charles and David, and we need to get all those items ticked off before someone sends the donkey-fucking tape to the Post.”
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Sample para:
Dumbass, you don’t even know if you’re lying or not. When an FBI agent is interviewing you, assume that that agent is exquisitely prepared. They probably already have proof about the answer of half the questions they’re going to ask you. They have the receipts. They’ve listened to the tapes. They’ve read the emails. Recently. You, on the other hand, haven’t thought about Oh Yeah That Thing for months or years, and you routinely forget birthdays and names and whether you had a doctor’s appointment today and so forth. So, if you go in with “I’ll just tell the truth,” you’re going to start answering questions based on your cold-memory unrefreshed holistic general concept of the subject, like an impressionistic painting by a dim third-grader. Will you say “I really don’t remember” or “I would have to look at the emails” or “I’m not sure”? That would be smart. But we’ve established you’re not smart, because you’ve set out to tell the truth to the FBI. You’re dumb. So you’re going to answer questions incorrectly, through bad memory. Sometimes you’re going to go off on long detours and frolics based on entirely incorrect memories. You’re going to be incorrect about things you wouldn’t lie about if you remembered them. If you realize you got something wrong or that you may not be remembering right, you’re going to get flustered, because it’s the FBI, and remember even worse. But the FBI would never prosecute you for a false statement that was the result of a failed memory, right? Oh, my sweet country mouse. If you had talked to a lawyer first, that lawyer would have grilled you mercilessly for hours, helped you search for every potentially relevant document, reviewed every communication, inquired into every scenario, and dragged reliable memory kicking and screaming out the quicksand of your psyche.
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I think getting us into a war under false pretenses, costing the lives of thousands of our troops and trillions of dollars we could have much better used elsewhere, qualifies him for a lot more than mildly bad. It doesn’t matter whose policy it was. He was the commander in chief.
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All Libby did was obstruct justice. The way Trump sees it, he’s obstructed justice and no one seems to care so why not pardon him.
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Nah. Somebody in his orbit is smart enough to claim that he’s been thinking about it that long. Nothing more.
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OTOH, republican voters go to Faux News to hear them confirm the lies and half-truths they’ve already decided to believe.
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I’m happy you found that. I recall reading it but my 30 second search didn’t turn it up. Here’s the key part, for the purposes of our discussion today:
Libby had competent counsel. They no doubt did this. To claim that the FBI snared Scooter (can we get an emoji for him pls?) in a perjury trap is disingenuous at best. He knowingly lied and was appropriately punished for it.
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I don’t give a fuck about Libby. Bush commuted his sentence anyway and he even got his law license back in 2016. I figure it’s even money Cheney threw him under the bus, but I have no sympathy for one snake turned on by another.
Regardless, unless you’re subpoenaed, don’t talk to cops, kids (except Trump, he’ll do fine and should definitely give Mueller an interview).
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That’s weird. I though he was the subject of this thread. My bad. 
I mean that I have no sympathy for him. Now that you mention it though, I am more interested in what Trump and his rump staff are trying to deflect attention away from.
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That’s fair.
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