"Having heard, or more probably read somewhere...that when a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping in this way to go in a straight line. For I stopped being half-witted and became sly, whenever I took the trouble...and if I did not go in a rigorously straight line, with my system of going in a circle, at least I did not go in a circle, and that was something." --Samuel Beckett
A federal jury today convicted I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby of lying about his role in the leak of an undercover CIA officer's identity, finding the vice president's former chief of staff guilty of two counts of perjury, one count of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice, while acquitting him of a single count of lying to the FBI.
posted by Effwit at 4:00 PM
The way of tea has nothing to do with discriminating good utensils from bad utensils nor considering the form of making tea. The basic meaning of tea is to realize samadhi while using tea utensils and to practice seeing into the original nature.
-- Sotan
In the blue night
frost haze, the sky glows
with the moon
pine tree tops
bend snow-blue, fade
into sky, frost, starlight.
The creak of boots.
Rabbit tracks, deer tracks,
what do we know.
--Gary Snyder
To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth.
--William S. Burroughs
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers."
--Thomas Pynchon
6 Comments:
Cheney's very disappointed and Bush is sad. I'm a happy camper.
I'm confused. What, exactly, could Cheney possibly be disappointed about? His lackey's are willing to go to prison for him... That's not something to sneeze at... Oh wait, the fact that he doesn't have the men and women on the jury in his pocket too... yeah, that must be disappointing...
Dena
Candace:
I'm not terribly upset about the outcome myself.
Dena:
Cheney is mouthing platitudes.
He is now hoping that Libby doesn't cut a deal with the prosecutors to go easy on him when requesting a sentence.
During Watergate and Iran/Contra, formerly close-lipped conspirators turned on their masters at this point in the proceedings.
You are right that the Vice-President has had it pretty good up to this point.
Maybe that will start to change.
Any way you cut it, it's going to reflect badly on Cheney. A fish rots from the head, everyone intuitively knows this. Even every Republican, especially every Republican, knows that Libby is just the fall guy.
Dena
Dena:
Agreed. It is funny seeing some of Cheney's people -- like Mary Matalin -- who know full well that the VP is up to his neck in this matter, insisting that Libby got railroaded.
They are all trying to keep Scooter, the designated fall guy, happy.
A promise of a presidential pardon must have been delivered long ago. There is no other reason a guy like Libby would have taken a bullet for Cheney absent such an assurance.
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