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Originally Posted by host
ace, do you disagree with my expectation that the executive branch, charged with upholding the law, and enforcing it, should itself, respect the rule of law?
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Yes. However, there can be laws on the books that should be broken or tested. Andrew Johson was the first US President to ever be impeached, he violated the Tenure in Office act passed by Congress to restrict the President's ability to terminate members of his Cabinet. Johnson nor any President should have respected this law, Johsno violated the law knowing the consequences.
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This isn't about "fairness", it's about official decisions to elect to disclose classified intelligence agency info, while our "troops are in the field", to punish someone because her husband publicly questioned statements by the president in his attempt to justify going to war.
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The President has the authority to decalssify information. If I were President and I found that people in the CIA were not loyal, I would act against them in a punitive manner, perhaps others would not. That may explain the way I feel about this compared to you.
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...again, ace.... you're leaving me to assume that you choose the "Thompson ticket", over Fitzgerald's:
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Fitgerald is an attorney, attornies do what they do, I am indifferent to them. Thompson's article reflected what I thought about the Libby trial and conviction.
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Which "ticket" do you choose ace, Thompson's, or the rule of law?
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Based on the way you present the question, I choose Thompson.
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Isn't it just a tad fucked up, that Thompson still raises money for Libby and writes op-ed attacks on Fitzgerald's motives, and boasts about it to a secret gathering of CNP goons <b>after Libby is convicted on 4 of 5 counts of obstructing Fitzgerald's investigation?</b>
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Thompson is free to do what he chooses. His acts don't violate the law.
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Can you not see that Thompson is leveraging his "image" as the TV character that he plays....the NYC District Attorney in an extremely popular and long running TV show, to run both a PR campaign to counter Fitzgerald's unimpeachable record as a smart, dogged, apolitical, credible, honest, and ethical US Attorney ("Acting" as if Thompson's fictional character is an "equal" offset to Fitzgerald's "real life" one...), and a political campaign to pander to the republican party fringe that swallows the anti "rule of law" bullshit he is spewing about poor "victimized" Libby and his 5 million dollar, eleven lawyer legal team being no match for "hatchet job" prosecutor Fitzgerald and a jury of Libby's peers in DC....
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Yes I see it. Politicians develop strategies to win support. I also see it when Democrats do it.
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You ace, make it clear that you subscribe to republican official lawbreaking and scorn for the law, because it can all be excused as "political", and therefore, somehow understood, and then excused.
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I fully support accepting consequences. If I break the law or if anyone breaks the law they should be prepared to deal with the consequences. There are laws I would choose to break in certain circumstances, I bet others would too. I don't make excuses for that. The issue here is that it has not been proved the the law was broken.