Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Cheney on Good Guys, Bad Guys, and Prison

Today Vice President Cheney issued a press release saying what a wonderful person Scooter Libby is. Libby was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for covering up the leak of the CIA covert agent Plame.


Scooter has dedicated much of his life to public service at the State Department, the Department of Defense and the White House. In each of these assignments he has served the nation tirelessly and with great distinction. I relied on him heavily in my capacity as Secretary of Defense and as Vice President. I have always considered him to be a man of the highest intellect, judgment and personal integrity-a man fully committed to protecting the vital security interests of the United States and its citizens. Scooter is also a friend, and on a personal level Lynne and I remain deeply saddened by this tragedy and its effect on his wife, Harriet, and their young children. The defense has indicated it plans to appeal the conviction in the case. Speaking as friends, we hope that our system will return a final result consistent with what we know of this fine man.


To my knowledge, he did not issue a statement today giving comfort to the family of the nearly five year detainment of, now 20 year old, Omar Khadr at Guantanamo Bay detainee whose charges were dismissed yesterday by a a military judge. Or to Salim Hamdan whose charges were dismissed by a different military judge as reported in the Anchorage Daily News today.

It seems to me, based on what he said about Libby and what he said two years ago,


Mr Cheney says that those prisoners who remain [in Guantanamo] are "bad people" and "hardcore".


that good good guys, even if they are guilty, should NOT go to jail, but bad guys, even if they are innocent, should rot there.

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