Hangin’ Ain’t Mean Enough
Posted by TFG on March 8th, 2007
A former Navy sailor was arrested Wednesday for allegedly releasing classified information that ended up in the hands of a suspected terrorism financier.
Hassan Abujihaad, 31, of Phoenix, is accused in a case that began in Connecticut and followed a suspected terrorist network across the country and into Europe and the Middle East.
He was arrested in Phoenix on charges of supporting terrorism with an intent to kill U.S. citizens and transmitting classified information to unauthorized people.
But the Chatterati, all they can talk about is Scooter Libby — whom the idiot jurors found guilty,* then immediately started talking to the press and going on talk shows about Presidential pardons and sub-moronic ‘fall guy’ conspiracy-theorizing. These geniuses, who can see through the dark folds of Rove’s cloaks, don’t know the first thing about jury nullification, though. It pisses me off greatly to have to accept these fools as fellow Americans.
* And he was, so near as I can tell. Whether he should have ever been charged with a crime over such trivial gossipy horseshit — well, that’s another idiotic move for our unserious Chatterati. And a blow to our criminal justice system, wasting time, dollars, energy over Joe Wilson’s wife’s name in an op-ed column unread by anyone with a job that doesn’t require Beltway ass-kissing.
March 9th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Like you, I believe that technically, Scooter is probably guilty as charged. But, where was the discretion prosecutors are supposed to exercise that should have stopped this nonsense before it ever began? Bill Clinton could earn enough points in my book to rise to the third or fourth ring of Hell if he would come out and say something like:
“I know what a politically motivated prosecution is and that’s what this was. President Bush should pardon Lewis Libby and everyone should take a deep breath and step back from the edge of the precipice we find ourselves. We don’t have to agree about politics but we do have to be civil about about our disagreements. Criminalizing politics is beneath us, or at least it should be. If winning requires the destruction of good men like Scooter Libby to score nothing more important than debating points, then perhaps it is time we went back to basics and read the rules again. I hope that by coming out and saying this now that I can provide President Bush with the political cover he needs to do the right thing and pardon Mr. Libby. Otherwise, next time we’ll be guessing which Democrat is going to wake up one morning and find it’s his turn to be the fish in the Special Prosecutor’s barrel.”
I can dream, can’t I?