Sen. Pat Leahy wants to have a chat with Patrick Fitzgerald and then echoed what Schumer said on Face the Nation and acknowledged that commuting Libbys sentence was a great way to buy his silence.
Jane   more...Hamsher:

"George Bush commuted Scooters sentence rather than pardoning him to Shut. Him. Up. The notion that he did it to split the difference and respect the jurys decision is just absurd. He did it to cover his own tracks, which is exactly why Congress should be looking into the whole matter."

I couldnt agree more.

TRANSCRIPT:


Do you have a problem, Senator Leahy, with anything the president decided in terms of the legality of what he did? He was within his right to commute the sentence.

LEAHY: The president has a constitutional right or has the constitutional power to commute sentences of anybody he wants. I wish he had shown more constitutional responsibility. Just as I was critical of some of the pardons by President Clinton, former President Bush or President Reagan, Ive said they have the power to do it, but I didnt think they used good judgment.

It was not a surprise he did this. It was generally assumed, certainly in Washington, by Republicans I talked with, that the president would give Scooter Libby a get out of jail free card. Its interesting he commuted the sentence. He didnt give an out and out pardon. That way Scooter Libby can take the fifth amendment if he wants as far as any testimony before (inaudible).

(CROSSTALK)

BLITZER: Well, I was going to ask you, Senator Leahy. Do you want to hold hearings on this whole issue?

LEAHY: No, because hes got a fifth amendment right that he can still do. I mean, this was, actually in my view, a blatant way of guaranteeing that Scooter Libby would not talk about the things that were done, you know, some of the misleading information given out by Vice President Cheney and the president. They led us into this war in Iraq, and they bought his silence. I can understand why the prosecutor was so angry about it.

BLITZER: Youre talking about Patrick Fitzgerald, your colleague, Senator

LEAHY: Also the fact

BLITZER: I was going to say

LEAHY: Also the fact that he was given, when the president talked about a severe sentence, he was given at the low end of the sentencing guidelines. People have been given much, much harsher sentences than he was given.

BLITZER: Senator Schumer of the Judiciary Committee wants you to call Patrick Fitzgerald to testify before your committee on this whole issue. Do you want to do that?

LEAHY: Thats something I would discuss with Senator Specter before I did, but I know how concerned Mr. Fitzgerald is.

And we may very well find ourselves going down that path. It would do no good to call Scooter Libby. His silence has been bought and paid for, and he would just take the fifth.  less

by Hubert G. Locke

Published on Friday, July 27, 2007 by The Seattle Post Intelligencer

Directions from the master

07-16-07-is this patrick?

When you have Tony Snow spinning wild accusations against Democrats to distract from the news that Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee has requested a Special Prosecutor to look into   more...Alberto Gonzaless conflicting testimony before Congress, who else better to have on than a former Reagan official? After all, its not like Saint Ronnies man could be accused of a partisan witch hunt.

Chris Matthews talks to Stan Brand, former US House Counsel and Bruce Fein, formerly part of Reagans DoJ. Not surprisingly, Fein sees parallels in what is happening with Watergate.

MATTHEWS: How can Tony Snow come on the show as the Presidents spokesman and deny seeing and hearing what we just heard and saw?

BRAND: Well, hes not a grand jury and hes not a prosecutor

FEIN: Hes Ron Ziegler during Watergate. And you remember all the equivocations that were made by Mr. Nixon that these are just concocted allegations and John Dean is lying. Well, John Dean wasnt lying. One of the ironies there about this attempt to split hairs right now is what its a reminder of for Republicans: its President Clinton with the meaning of the word is is, whats the meaning of the word alone? This is not games when youre under oath and testifying with regard to an oversight function of Congress.

MATTHEWS: Okay, let me ask you this, the toughest question in the world: so what? Can those guys on the Hill, Chuck Schumer, etc. and Patrick Leahy for judicial or political reasons, or Constitutional reasons, really bring the case to this White House and this Attorney General? Can they really put him in jail for lying?

FEIN: They cannot, because they cannot enforce the law and initiate a criminal prosecution. What they can do and what they would have to do is begin impeachment proceedings. The President has a duty to faithfully execute-not sabotage-the law
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Patrick Currie in Season one, Episode eight of Queer as Folk

Shooter.

Choreographer from L.A.,Patrick Chen @ House of Pro Studio

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Patrick Stump slide show

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On July 9, 2008, 69 members of the U.S. Senate voted to abolish the 4th amendment and protect the President of the United States and his friends from illegal activities perpetrated upon the people of   more...the United States in direct violation of the United States Constitution.

28 Senators voted NO. This is what some of them had to say about HR 6304.  less

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Patrick Star from Spongebob Squarepants.

Two years of footage. Thanks for watching

Patrick Slide show

Patrick Watson - The Great Escape Secret City Records, 2007

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it didnt upload right the first time made for Patrick's 23 bday which is today.

for some reason the first time got cut off

Patrick getting stuck on ORCC weekend