Faygo Kid
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Mon Oct-24-05 06:51 PM
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Dick Cheney: Unindicted coconspirator? That's my prediction. |
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That's my call. I can't see a scenario where it won't happen, given what we have heard to date. Shades of Richard Nixon, for those of you old like me.
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Mon Oct-24-05 06:53 PM
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1. Why won't they indict him? |
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Mon Oct-24-05 06:53 PM
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Mon Oct-24-05 06:56 PM
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4. That would be great, wouldn't it? |
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But so far as I know, he wasn't called before the Grand Jury to testify; therefore he is peripheral, yet central - like Nixon. Same situation, that's why.
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Mon Oct-24-05 06:58 PM
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6. Thanks for the answer. I forgot about them getting to have it their way |
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when they talked to Fitzgerald.
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Mon Oct-24-05 07:14 PM
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12. So because he didn't put his hand on the bible and say |
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"So help me God" he gets off scott free?
There has to be some punishment for lying to a federal prosecutor, under oath or not.
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Mon Oct-24-05 07:37 PM
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16. Not scot free. The prosecutor has found wrongdoing. . . |
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. . .the investigation will continue. He did not testify to the grand jury, so he can't be formally indicted for perjury. More will come.
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Mon Oct-24-05 06:53 PM
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2. Why can't we just indict him? |
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Mon Oct-24-05 06:57 PM
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5. Is it because he's too ugly? |
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Mon Oct-24-05 07:10 PM
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10. They don't have orange jumpsuits big enough? |
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No, that can't be it.....
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Mon Oct-24-05 06:59 PM
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7. I think he'll get indicted. |
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I think he's guilty as sin and that Fitzpatrick got at the truth.
Cheney will be indicted.
Bush will be an unindicted coconspirator.
That's my prediction.
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Mon Oct-24-05 07:02 PM
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I truly hope we're right.
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Mon Oct-24-05 07:01 PM
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8. The only reason for Nixon not being indicted... |
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... were DoJ findings at the time which implied that there was a Constitutional bind in indicting a sitting president (on the basis that there's no specific remedy in the Constitution except impeachment, even though the Constitution does not rule out indictment).
That finding did not apply to the vice-president. And, as we saw, Agnew's departure was proof that it did not. Therefore, if the grand jury feels there's probable cause, they can indict Cheney. There would be no point in naming Cheney as a co-conspirator without indicting him.
The same is not true of Bush.
Cheers.
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Mon Oct-24-05 07:12 PM
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I thought there was some protection for the president. Now, how do we go about getting a Democratic majority so we can impeach Bush?
Wait, I know...kick ass in 2006?!
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Mon Oct-24-05 07:27 PM
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13. And according to Franken |
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you can execute a sitting vice president, but not a sitting president.
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Mon Oct-24-05 07:31 PM
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14. Fraken would not lie. n/t |
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Mon Oct-24-05 07:32 PM
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15. If someone is a co-conspirator how can they not be indicted? "Un-indicted |
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co-conspirator sounds like an oxymoron.
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