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So we had another development in the ongoing Subpoena Shadowboxing Soap Opera starring the Bush administration and every meaningful oversight committee in Congress.
The House Government Reform Committee had issued a subpoena to Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey for the report of an FBI interview of Vice President Dick Cheney and other documents relating to the […]
Scott McClellan seems to still nurse the naive belief that George Bush can be shamed into consistency with his own explicit or implicit standards. He explained to the House Judiciary Committee why Bush shouldn’t pardon Scooter Libby:
Mr. Chairman, I believe that it would signal a special treatment, the same thing that happened with the […]
Scooter Libby, after a carefully conducted cost-benefit analysis, has decided that despite being wholly innocent of the charges he was convicted of, he isn’t going to pursue his appeal of the conviction:
I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney whose sentence for lying and obstructing justice in the CIA leak case […]
I really couldn’t choose between “Accountability” and “Sanity”, so feel free to pick the one you like.
Georgie Bush was asked a great question at his press conference yesterday. What followed was, even by Georgie’s standards, unbelievable:
Q Mr. President, I wanted to ask you about accountability. You’re a big believer in it, you’ve talked about […]
I have a distinct memory that we used to be a nation with a conscience.
In the country that we used to be, a case like that of Troy Davis would have caused spontaneous, widespread outrage:
A Georgia man is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday for killing a police officer in 1989, even […]
It’s been too long, certainly.
On commuting Libby’s sentence:
I — first of all, the Scooter Libby decision was, I thought, a fair and balanced decision.
I have carefully examined my controversial decision myself. It is surprisingly fair and balanced. I’m all good. Just like Fox News.
On psychology:
First, I understand why the American people are […]
For long months Bush has let the Valerie Plame leak scandal percolate through what we are forced to describe as his consciousness.
For long months he has pondered what he would say about it when he finally broke his silence. He has framed his words, rehearsed them, revised them, polished them. Rolled them around […]
Look, I like a good letter as much as (and probably more than) the next guy. I picked up my writing style by watching Cohen Sr. write letters to the editor (like this one) and anyone else he felt needed a wake up call. In effect, 1115 began as my own version of […]
Longtime friend, 1115 reader and notorious scofflaw Andy Sine had his day in court on Tuesday on a matter of unpaid parking tickets. Fines, penalties and court costs were in the $2,000 range, and desperate measures were required. When the judge asked what he had to say for himself, Andy expressed outrage that […]
I pointed out on Friday how Judge Reggie Walton had identified a problem with Bush’s commutation of Libby’s sentence, namely that federal law provides for probation “only after the defendant has already served a term of imprisonment”. Since Libby’s sentence had been commuted before he served any time, Judge Walton found no legal basis […]
